RE: [Cz-L] Our Origins from cornel fleming on 2012-04-25 (The Czernowitz-L Archive)

From: cornel fleming <cornel.fleming_at_virgin.net>
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2012 18:01:21 +0100
To: 'Robert Burton' <robert.burton_at_rogers.com>, 'HARDY BREIER' <HARDY3_at_BEZEQINT.NET>, 'Hedwig Brenner' <hedbren_at_zahav.net.il>, 'alexander rosner' <alexanderrosner_at_yahoo.de>, 'CZERNOWITZ-L' <Czernowitz-L_at_cornell.edu>
Reply-to: cornel fleming <cornel.fleming_at_virgin.net>

If you put "The Silk Road" into Google it is well documented....see
Wikipedia! If the Jewish traders were not involved I would be most
surprised! Cornel

-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Burton [mailto:robert.burton_at_rogers.com]
Sent: 25 April 2012 17:45
To: 'HARDY BREIER'; 'cornel fleming'; 'Hedwig Brenner'; 'alexander rosner';
'CZERNOWITZ-L'
Subject: RE: [Cz-L] Our Origins

Dear Hardy,

While I'm not a scholar or any sort of knowledgeable, I read - on this
website or a link from it - that the Silk Road, however modest its origins,
did become the "route" to the Ottomans and the Orient. It does seem very
plausible that there were feeder trails to the main route, and it also seems
quite plausible that many of the travelers would have diverted to a port and
cross to points south and east by sea. I did not know that Czernowitz's
origins were a trading station on a river. I would suppose that the
development of large scale commercial agriculture and related manufacturing,
such as leather or soap, put Czernowitz goods onto the Road. It's all
guessing on my part, and I'd like to hear from any economic historians
amongst us.

Regards, Bob

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