张骞西使,汉帝国与帕提亚帝国官方交往关系确立,丝绸之路得以全线贯通。从丝绸之路西段交通发展演变的历史看,帕提亚时期是一个极其重要的发展阶段。虽然在前帕提亚时代,丝路西段交通早已成形,但西段政治格局的不稳定极大地阻碍了交通格局的进一步发展。及帕提亚崛起及其对帝国交通的有效经营,丝路西段遂在帝国统一秩序的保障下得到了空前的发展,进而形成了以中道主干线为主,南北支线为辅,且各主、支线枝蔓密集的路网格局。考察帕提亚时期丝路西段交通,有助于认识帕提亚与丝绸之路的关系。

After Zhang Qian's travels in Western Regions, the official relationship between the Han Empire and the Parthian Empire was established, and then the Silk Road traversed the Parthian Empire and continued to extent to the Mediterranean World. In terms of the historical development of transportation in the Western Section of the Silk Road, the Parthian Age is an extremely important stage. Although in the pre-Parthian era, the traffic in the western part of the Silk Roads had already taken shaped, the instability of the political situation in the western section had greatly hindered the further development of the traffic pattern. With the rise of the Parthian Empire and its effective governance on the traffic, the western part of the Silk Roads achieved an unprecedented development under the guarantee of the unified order of the Parthian Empire and formed a new traffic pattern across the middle main line, together with the north and south branch lines. It is helpful to study the relationship between Parthian Empire and the Silk Road by investigating the traffic routes in the western section of the Silk Road during the Parthian period.