The Silk Road: Past and Present Starting from the 2nd century BC‚ to the end of the 14th century AD‚ a great trade route stretched from Chang ’An in the East and ended at the Mediterranean at Antioch in the West‚ linking China and the Roman Empire. Ferdinand von Richthofen – a well-known German geographer‚ named it the Silk Road in 1877. The Silk Road has been one of the most important trade routes since the connection between Europe and Asia was established; however‚ what are the differences
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Life Along The Silk Road During the outward-looking rule of China’s Tang dynasty (seventh-ninth century C. E. )‚ sophisticated people in northeastern Iran developed such a taste for expensive‚ imported Chinese pottery that they began to imitate it in great quantity for sale to people who could not afford the real thing. And in northern China there was a vogue for beautiful pottery figurines of camels laden with caravan goods or ridden by obviously non-Chinese merchants‚ musicians‚ or entertainers
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John Ray III Mr. Lee 9 Honors World History 27 October 2015 Silk Road The Silk Road was a very important and prosperous trading route that began around 138 B. C. These were routes that were paramount to the exchanges and interactions between civilizations. These routes connected the west and east by monks‚ soldiers‚ merchants‚ pilgrims‚ also nomads. The Route traveled through china‚ the highlands of the Pamir and Tian Shan ranges‚ the Tarima basin‚ and onto‚ Afghanistan‚ Central Asia‚ and
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Silk Road The Silk Road was many things: a connection for the East and West‚ a valuable empire building resource‚ focus of cultures colliding‚ and a strategic trade route. The most important of these is the connection between the East and West. Without this trade route cultures would have developed completely different‚ and the already distant lands would be in seemingly different universes. Geography The Silk Road is not just one road‚ but an interconnected series of trade routes stretching
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The Silk Roads are a network of land and see lanes all over three continents of the world – Asia‚ Europe and Africa. Starting in the third century BCE‚ China used the Silk Roads to carry trade goods to the lands of the Mediterranean. Moreover‚ people from Eurasia and Africa participated in the commercial transactions since the second century BCE. Traders and religious pilgrims travelled the roads for a bigger purpose than just trading: They spread political and religious ideas throughout three continents
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It is know as the Silk Roads‚ this is a land based trade system and these routes have connected agriculture and pastoral people. Along with big civilizations on the continent’s border. No one knew the length of the networks’ of trade‚ it was a “relay trade” which is when goods are passed down the border. The Silk Roads began by blossoming in the early centuries‚ they provided safety for merchants and travelers‚ a large array of good made its way across the roads. The Silk Roads in a geographic unit
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The Silk Road was a very interesting time in life time history. The silk Road was the world’s first superhighway not literally a single road it consisted of a good network of trade routes connecting China with Central Asia and lands beyond all the way to Rome. Goods were usually transported by larch Caravana it’s made up of guides soldiers religious Pilgrims merchants and hundreds of fright bearing camels. The silk Road florist for more than 3000 years and had a major influence on the cultures of
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“Ross W. Ulbricht‚ 31 years old‚ is the founder or mastermind of Silk Road‚ a notorious online marketplace for the sale of heroin‚ cocaine‚ LSD and other illegal drugs” (Weiser‚ 2015‚ p.1). Ulbricht created a subversive website that made it easier and safer to buy and sell illegal drugs or anything else. The online drug marketplace made more than $200 million in sales. The Silk Road case was new to law enforcement and “Operated on a hidden part of the Internet called the Tor network‚ and only accepted
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Changes and continuities essay In the Period of 200 to 1450 BCE the Silk road was extremely important in connecting Eastern China to the empires of the West. The trade of spices and goods to and from Asia and Europe remained constant. Asian commodities were traded with European merchants along the road and vice versa. Asia’s economy‚ such as that of China specifically‚ remained heavily relative on the money from Silk Road trade. 200 BCE silk roads came to use. Luxury goods were traded between
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The music of Turkey‚ dating back to the Silk Road Era‚ contains dissonantly dramatic chords unlike what many Westerners are accustomed to (Sheehan 86). Although the musical foundation of Turkey was created by the blending of customs from outside influences‚ stylistic choices vary throughout the country because individual provinces developed without a sense of national unity (“Turkish”). Turkish music theory practices have been influenced by the history of the Ottoman Empire‚ the Islamic faith‚ and
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