The Silk Road began in the Chinese city of Chang'an and this is the only thing fixed about it. The route does not end in one specific place or country. It split in numerous directions and so has different end points. Some of the places where the silk road has ended are Damascus, Alexandria, Ganges Delta and Tyre. The Silk route actually started or originated in 2nd century BC and it was an important trade route for trading Chinese silk for other materials.The route was created under the Han Dynasty of China to protect the traders from the hand of the bandits that were trying to loot the traders.
King George the thirds decision to reject the olive branch petition.
Plato contends we are all made of the same three parts yet not all have the parts aligned in a healthy balance. The result is that greed, ambition, and foolishness rule in these unbalanced people. Plato lived through the democratic period in Athens' government and through the oligarchy period when the conquering Spartans installed the wealthy oligarchists as rulers of Athens, a move that unleashed a fierce retribution of bloodshed upon the unseated democratic rulers.
Plato rejected the rule of the mistake prone and seemingly unreasoning democratic faction and equally rejected the oligarchic rule of the retaliatory wealthy elite. After a period of seclusion, Plato wrote the Republic. In it he describes human nature and uses human nature (as he described it) as a metaphor and template for a reasonable government.
He assigns ruling authority to those who have a functioning alignment and balance between their three constituent parts and a dominant dedication to the highest: (1: lowest) love of money (laboring and merchants classes), (2: middle-most class) love of honor (military), and (3: highest) love of wisdom ("scientists, scholars, high-level experts, and similar sophisticates" [Jorn K. Bramann]).
His idea is that the two models he has seen don't work, so a third is needed. That third model is to make a government out of those who have the best minds by virtue of being best trained, best informed and best balanced (in the quote below, take note of and understand the "or"):
Until philosophers are kings, or the kings and princes of this world have the spirit and power of philosophy, ... cities will never have rest from their evils. (Republic)
He didn't think it was a good idea. He wanted a place he could retreat to if he lost against the coalitions he was fighting, but he needed the money more than he did the land
The colonial army took dares and risks,they also were able to keep their morale. The battle of Saratoga was the turning point, the British mis-coordinated a 3 prongs as they arrived at different times. This proved the French the colonists could win, French recognized USA as a country,provided money and troops
