Cedar Writes

Tag: ancient history

  • The Silk Road

    The Silk Road

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    Cedar Sanderson
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    The silk road stories fire my imagination. It was the first time in human history that markets were no longer constrained to how far a person could walk in a day or two. The sheer doggedness of the traders who opened the various routes, the stories that are long forgotten, the hidden traces archaeologists sometimes…

  • History’s Women

    History’s Women

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    Cedar Sanderson
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    Another essay I wrote for class, this one using three given source documents (I have linked them in this essay) to read, then use as a basis to compare gender issues in Ancient times. I still think that looking at the past through a lens of modern sensibilities is a fallacy that leads to erroneous…