The Barbarian Empires of the Steppes. Episode 7, Kushans, Sacae, and the Silk Road.
Material type: FilmPublisher number: 6694998 | KanopyPublisher: The Great Courses, 2014Publisher: [San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2019Description: 1 online resource (streaming video file) (30 minutes): digital, .flv file, soundContent type:- two-dimensional moving image
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Film
In Process Record.
Kenneth W. Harl
Originally produced by The Great Courses in 2014.
Examine the Sacae and Kushans, two steppe peoples forced west into the Middle East and India by the Xiongnu confederacy. Learn the key role both groups played in developing trade along the Silk Road and how Kushan ruler Kujula Kadphises and his successors carved out an Indian empire while creating conditions for Buddhism to flourish.
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
In English