Spice Routes and Silk Roads

S1, E3: This episode covers the early centuries AD, the time of the Roman Empire in the West, and “the happiest time in the history of the world”, as the historian Edward Gibbon put it. In this period, located at the ‘centre of world’, India became a great player in the first global economy. As the spice routes and the silk roads opened up, Indian civilization grew, enriched by contact and exchange.