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Over time, this jacket became a kosode, a short-sleeved jacket used as underwear. By around 1400, it had become outerwear, a longer garment, with longer, wider sleeves, and a belt. The kimono ...

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Dr Sam Willis reveals how the Silk Road was the world's first global superhighway where people with new ideas, new cultures and new religions made exchanges that shaped humanity.

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