PART II Fate of the Tocharians For many centuries, the mountainous trade routes called the “Silk Road” commercially linked Persia and the Greco-Roman world with China and India. This vital trade route was dominated by Indo-Europeans who were mostly Aryans. However, its last segment before entering China was held by the easternmost branch of Indo-Europeans, called “Tocharians.” The Tocharians seem to have moved away from their brethren on the south Russian steppes sometime before 3500 BCE, and they migrated…..