The Silk Road which started in 200 BCE and ended it in 1450 CE has its own changes and continuities. Trade flourished between the Asian and Europe at the time and as time went on its sole purpose of trading expanded to many other purposes and affect not only the area it contacted. Although there were many continuities during the time but it has more significant changes that occurred and also impact the world. One significant changes of the Silk Road is when it was first started it mainly started
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of the Silk Roads from 200 B.C.E. to 1450 C.E. From 200 B.C.E. to 1450 C.E.‚ the Silk Roads was extremely important in connecting the empires of the east to the empires of the west. While goods were traded along these routes‚ the empires and people tied to the Silk Roads changed over time. The Silk Road’s constant trading of goods allowed new technology and religions to be dispersed throughout the east and west during this time frame‚ and not only did the ideas that travelled the Silk Roads change
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The Silk Road‚ once a popular trade route‚ slowly was overshadowed by the growing Indian Ocean trade. The Indian Ocean trade route was more efficient‚ easier to travel‚ and much faster. Meanwhile the Silk Road became less traveled because of its harsh geography‚ the spread of disease‚ and the fall of the empires that supported the trade. Differences in geography caused the Silk Road to decline and expanded the Indian Ocean trade. Both routes experienced different kinds of difficulties. The Silk
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Susan Whitfield writes Life along the Silk Road based on character stories occurring between the eight and tenth century‚ all living at different times. She writes this history for several reasons. First‚ she writes it to change the negative perception of the history of Central Asia that we know through the annals of its neighbors. By explaining the history of the region through the eyes of its own occupants‚ it rids the history of any distorted views from neighboring civilizations. She uses the
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ross Cultural Exchanges and the Silk Road Edit 0 0 130… Cross Cultural Exchanges and the Silk Road Notes (pg. 287-310) In the year 139 B.C.E.‚ the Chinese emperor Han Wudi sent an envoy named Zhang Qian on a mission to lands west of china. The emperor’s purpose was to find allies who could help combat the nomadic Xiongnu‚ who menaced the northern and western borders of the Han empire. From captives he had learned that other nomadic peoples in far wester lands bore grudges against the Xiongnu
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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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The Silk Road served as a cultural bridge linking the east to the west on the Eurasian continent. It was an extensive trade route originated from Chang’an in the east and ended at the Mediterranean in the west. This trade included both overland and maritime routes. The society that began the Silk Road was the Han Dynasty in China in approximately 200 B.C.E. The rise and fall of different civilizations and nomadic invasions transformed the Silk Road and its users‚ and from 200 BCE to 1450 CE the spread
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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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Change- What lay behind the emergence of Silk Road commerce‚ and what kept it going for so many centuries Different regions such as Eurasia‚China‚India‚the Middle east all had valuable goods to neighboring civilization since they themselves couldn’t produce them. Indirect trading connection liked Eurasian civilizations in a network of transcontinental exchange. Due to large states the silk road was able to prosper for a long time‚ large states provided security for merchants and travelers. Also
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Change and Continuity Over Time: Silk Road Research Paper Between 1 and 1450 CE‚ the Silk Road‚ which was made during Han China‚ was one of the most useful trade networks that greatly impacted and connected regions of Eastern Asia to the Mediterranean in the West. It did not just introduce ideas‚ but spread diseases‚ such as Measles and the Plague‚ as well. Although the changes of the Silk Road do not meet the number of the continuities‚ it did contribute
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