The Silk Road Metaverse

The Silk Road is neither an actual road nor a single route.
German geographer and traveler Ferdinand von Richthofen
first used the term “silk road” in 1877 C.E. to describe
the well-traveled pathway of goods between Europe and East Asia.
An abundance of goods traveled along the Silk Road.
Merchants carried silk from China to Europe, where it dressed royalty
and wealthy patrons.
Other favorite commodities from Asia included jade and other precious
stones, porcelain, tea, and spices. In exchange, horses, glassware,
textiles, and manufactured goods traveled eastward.

Religion and ideas spread along the Silk Road just as fluidly as goods.
Towns along the route grew into multicultural cities.
The exchange of information gave rise to new technologies and
innovations that would change the world.
The horses introduced to China contributed to the might of
the Mongol Empire, while gunpowder from China changed the very nature
of war in Europe and beyond.
Diseases also traveled along the Silk Road.

One of the most famous travelers of the Silk Road was Marco Polo.
Born into a family of wealthy merchants in Venice, Italy,
Marco traveled with his father to China (then Cathay)
when he was just 17 years of age.
Upon his return, Marco Polo wrote about his adventures,
making him—and the routes he traveled—famous.

Between 1405 and 1433, the Ming government sponsored
seven naval expeditions.
Zheng He was placed as the admiral in control of the huge fleet and
armed forces that undertook the expeditions.
Zheng He's first voyage departed 11 July 1405, from Suzhou and
consisted of a fleet of 317 ships holding almost 28,000 crewmen.
While Zheng He's fleet was unprecedented, the routes were not.
His fleet followed long-established, well-mapped routes of trade between
China and the Arabian Peninsula that had been used since
at least the Han dynasty.
When his fleet first arrived at Malacca, there was already a sizable
Chinese community.

Chang'an, together with Rome, Cairo and Athens, is known
as the four ancient capitals of the world.
During its heyday, Chang'an was one of the largest and
most populous cities in the world. Around AD 750,
Chang'an was called a "million man city" in Chinese records.
According to the census in 742 recorded in the New Book of Tang,
362,921 families with 1,960,188 persons were counted in Jingzhao Fu,
the metropolitan area including small cities in the vicinity.
In the heyday of its development, it served as the center of
the eastern world, attracting a large number of foreign envoys, monks
and businessmen.

The famous Silk Road during the Western Han and Tang Dynasties
started from Chang'an.

Tang Chang'an City is magnificent in scale, rigorous in layout,
symmetrical in structure and neat in arrangement.
The Suzaku Street running from north to south is a standard central axis.
It connects Chengtian Gate in Miyagi, Suzaku Gate in Imperial City, and
Mingde Gate in outer city, dividing Chang'an City into two parts symmetrical
from east to west, Wannian County in the east,
and Wannian County in the east.
The west is Chang'an County, and there are two commercial districts
in the east and west, called the East City and the West City.
There are 11 streets in the north and south and 14 streets
in the east and west, dividing Chang'an City into 108 squares,
which are like a huge Go board.

In Tang Chang'an's population, in addition to residents, royalty, dignitaries,
soldiers, servants, servants, Buddhist monks and nuns, and
ethnic minorities, there were no less than 30,000 foreign merchants,
messengers, students, and monks studying abroad.
At that time, as many as 300 countries and regions came to Chang'an and
Tang Tong's envoys.
Tang's scientific and technological culture, political system, food fashion, etc.
spread from Chang'an to all over the world.
In addition, Western culture was digested and recreated through
Tang Chang'an City, and then spread to neighboring countries and regions
such as Japan, North Korea, and Myanmar.
Tang Chang'an became a gathering place for commercial and cultural
exchanges between the West and the East in the world,
and was the largest international metropolis in the world at that time.

In Japan, Heichengjing (now the western suburbs of Nara City) and
Heianjing (now the center of Kyoto) highly imitated the planning structure
of Chang'an City.

	The Mogao Grottoes are the most famous Buddhist grottoes in China. Together with Longmen Grottoes and Yungang Grottoes, it is known as the three famous ancient Buddhist sculpture sites in China. Mogao Grottoes, located in the southeast of Dunhuang, Gansu Province, China, can also be called Dunhuang Grottoes. It is a must-go place on the Silk Road. These caves contain some of the finest examples of Buddhist art spanning 1,000 years.


	The overland Silk Road across Europe and Asia has a long history of two thousand years. Many ancient cities have been in ruins, some buried in the desert, No one can imagine the power and wealth that existed in those days. There are also some cities that survive to this day and continue to write their history. For example, Chang'an in China is now called Xi'an, such as Constantinople in Turkey, Such as Baghdad, Iraq, etc. There are also many ancient scenic spots and relics of civilization along the long Silk Road. For example, the Mogao Grottoes in Dunhuang, China, For example, Jiayuguan, the starting point of the western end of the Great Wall of China, For example, the Mikoyan Buddha in Afghanistan, Although it was blown up, in the Silk Road Metaverse, We can restore it. Mogao Grottoes too, let us restore their beauty and splendor. When you have assets such as land and equipment such as shovels, You can start your Silk Road adventure and legend. Maybe you are the forty thieves in Alibaba, Maybe you are Genghis Khan, Maybe you are Marco Polo.... In addition to the land Silk Road, there is also the Maritime Silk Road, You want to lead hundreds of large ships across the oceans like Zheng He of the Ming Dynasty in China, Or like the pirates in the movie who dominate the party and become a little king. Or maybe you just want to be a former sea merchant.