The Silk Road was a commercial trade route between Russia to the north, India to the south, China to the east and Iran to the west. The concept of the Silk Road has given rise to a variety of different interpretations. Even so, there is a certain social group that, in modern scholarship, has rarely been associated with the Silk Road, their master traders, or their mercantile structure who are well-known to have traded on the Silk Road from the 4th century until the late 10th century. Though a trade route such as the Silk Road mixes commercial traders, diplomatic traders, religious exchanges, and language similarity, this concept is not tied to any one geographic or historical concept. Therefore, the goal of this paper is to demonstrate that the Sogdian people, who mastered commercial skills on the Silk Road and originated in Central Asia,
were assimilated into three different groups.
were assimilated into three different groups.
