Just like there was no Bronze age, Middle Ages or Third World. It doesn't mean that we cannot use the terminology or that it's necessarily wrong, it's just limited and we need to understand the limits
ya, there were a bunch of trade routes along this path to all the different regions/cities. We just named the entire concept the "Silk Road" in the 1800s (it was coined in 1877 by Ferdinand von Richthofen).
Just like there was no Bronze age, Middle Ages or Third World. It doesn't mean that we cannot use the terminology or that it's necessarily wrong, it's just limited and we need to understand the limits
>Third world
Non-aligned countries didn't exist? Sorry I need some coffee and I'm feeling a little thick at the moment.
Is that the meaning of “Third World”? As in East/West/Other?
I always thought it was more about Developed/Developing/Undeveloped, mostly in terms of the industrial transition.
But, if we are being honest, it’s used a lot more as “third class”.
I suppose indeed that it is not really a well defined “thing”, like the Silk Road.
ya, there were a bunch of trade routes along this path to all the different regions/cities. We just named the entire concept the "Silk Road" in the 1800s (it was coined in 1877 by Ferdinand von Richthofen).