Well Soghdiana is definitely a place to look at for Silk Road History. First of all, come on, the coins of Samarkand with a square in the middle is not something particularly creative: coinages in Han period also have this feature.
http://www.charm.ru/coins/misc/soghdian-kaiyuan.shtml
And Soghdiana in modern time….. bears any traces of the Pre-Arab conquest Samarkand?
Again, the enterprise of Silk Road has more to do with erasing Islam than anything else imo.
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