- Contact Along the Silk Road
- Merchants and the establishment of Trade
- Diplomacy and warfare
- Exploration and colonization
- Monasticism and missionaries
- Peoples of the Silk Road
- Han Chinese
- Tang Chinese
- Sogdians
- Uighurs
- Mongols
- Tibetans
- Arabs
- Persians
- Religions of the Silk Road
- Buddhism
- Islam
- Manichaeism
- Christianity
- Hinduism
- Zoroastrianism
- Judaism