Why Is The Silk Road Important
Benjamin Liang
January 3, 2015
AP World History-P.2
CCOT
During the post-classical era the Silk Road was active and very important. In Euriasia from 500-1500, the most dramatic changes due to expanding trade is the improvement of women status due to the spread of Islam and the further diffusion of technologies and ideas from there nodal points. However, China has always been the main producer of silk in Eurasia from 500-1500.
Due to the spread of Islam through expanding trade networks from 500-1500 treatment of women’s property and female infanticide have changed for the better. Before Islam in Arabia, women were seen as property themselves to their man (father or husband). If a man divorced a women he could keep the dowry and the property …show more content…
The Silk Road has been standing from the Han Dynasty to the 1450s and the major item of trade was silk from China. Although some other regions like Ancient Rome and the India have discovered how to manufacture silk, China still has remained the main place to get silk. The reason why this is so is because the infrastructure of silk manufacturing in China has been developed for a long time that its complex technological silk making structures were no match to the newly founded silk industries of other countries like Ancient Rome and India; similar to how Shihuangdi was able to unify China much easily and faster than Augustus when he attempted to reunify Rome. It was because China already had a system in which they can easily build an empire on top of. China has discovered silk in 4900 BC whereas silk was discovered in India between 2450 BC and 2000 BC and Rome in 550 CE. The reason why China had such a great advantage in the silk industry is because the government there has produced laws protecting “the secret of silk making” in where guards on border checkpoints would thoroughly search people leaving China for silk worm eggs. If people were caught carrying such contraband they would be
January 3, 2015
AP World History-P.2
CCOT
During the post-classical era the Silk Road was active and very important. In Euriasia from 500-1500, the most dramatic changes due to expanding trade is the improvement of women status due to the spread of Islam and the further diffusion of technologies and ideas from there nodal points. However, China has always been the main producer of silk in Eurasia from 500-1500.
Due to the spread of Islam through expanding trade networks from 500-1500 treatment of women’s property and female infanticide have changed for the better. Before Islam in Arabia, women were seen as property themselves to their man (father or husband). If a man divorced a women he could keep the dowry and the property …show more content…
The Silk Road has been standing from the Han Dynasty to the 1450s and the major item of trade was silk from China. Although some other regions like Ancient Rome and the India have discovered how to manufacture silk, China still has remained the main place to get silk. The reason why this is so is because the infrastructure of silk manufacturing in China has been developed for a long time that its complex technological silk making structures were no match to the newly founded silk industries of other countries like Ancient Rome and India; similar to how Shihuangdi was able to unify China much easily and faster than Augustus when he attempted to reunify Rome. It was because China already had a system in which they can easily build an empire on top of. China has discovered silk in 4900 BC whereas silk was discovered in India between 2450 BC and 2000 BC and Rome in 550 CE. The reason why China had such a great advantage in the silk industry is because the government there has produced laws protecting “the secret of silk making” in where guards on border checkpoints would thoroughly search people leaving China for silk worm eggs. If people were caught carrying such contraband they would be