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The Silk Road and the Iranian political economy in late antiquity: Iran, the Silk Road, and the problem of aristocratic empire

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Richard E. Payne
Richard E. Payne*
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Abstract

The Iranian Empire emerged in the third century in the interstices of the Silk Road that increasingly linked the markets of the Mediterranean and the Near East with South, Central, and East Asia. The ensuing four centuries of Iranian rule corresponded with the heyday of trans-Eurasian trade, as the demand of moneyed imperial elites across the continent for one another's high-value commodities stimulated the development of long-distance networks. Despite its position at the nexus of trans-continental and trans-oceanic commerce, accounts of Iran in late antiquity relegate trade to a marginal role in its political economy. The present article seeks to foreground the contribution of trans-continental mercantile networks to the formation of Iran and to argue that its development depended as much on the political economies of its western and eastern neighbours as on internal Near Eastern factors.

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IranSilk RoadLate antiquityTradePolitical economySasanian
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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies , Volume 81 , Issue 2 , June 2018 , pp. 227 - 250
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An earlier version of this article has appeared in Chinese translation in Wang Qingjia and Li Longguo, Duanlie yu zhuanxing: Diguo zhi hou de Ou Ya lishi yu shixue [断裂与转型：帝国之后的欧亚历史与史学] Shanghai: Shanghai guji chubanshe, 2017). The author would like to thank Frantz Grenet, an anonymous reviewer, and audiences at Peking University, the University of Chicago Center in Beijing, and Princeton University for their critical comments and suggestions.

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