What if the world we knew were charted not by monarchies and empires but by the unseen influence of commerce? Invisible Threads is a sweeping, stunningly illustrated odyssey of the overlooked paths that bound humanity much earlier than GPS, shipping containers, or global economies. From obsidian exchange in the ancient world to digital supply networks, the book excavates the hidden history of how trade-invisible at times, underwhelming at others-sewed into being the tapestry of our contemporary world. Traverse centuries and continents in Stone-age commerce paths and oceanic migration The sacred scrolls of the Silk Road and Saharan gold-salt caravans The violent efficiencies of the Atlantic slave trade and silver trade Industrial revolutions, Cold War black markets, and digital globalization With every chapter, historian and author Solo NR Sage uncovers the breathtaking ways that movement, exchange, and connectivity-rather than conquest alone-constructed civilizations, economies, and ideas.
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