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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things amongst countries. One of the most outstanding trade routes in the past was the Silk Road found in China. It was a route used by many people to travel and transport goods such as silk‚ paper‚ livestock‚ jewels‚ and much more‚ from East to West China. It consisted of land and sea routes‚ which made transportation and traveling convenient for man in that time period. There were many items traded along the Silk Road that had a profound impact on the development of the cultures‚ religions and other
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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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Ngo 7th period 10/6/2012 SILK ROAD VS SAHARAN TRADE ROUTES The Silk Road and the Saharan Caravan trade routes had many differences and similarities in their development and the impact on the civilizations they made. They were comparable and diverse in many areas of society such as: the development of the empire and how it all began‚ architecture and writing that was developed‚ and the spread of religion throughout the region between 300 BCE – 600 CE. The Silk Road developed between 300 BCE and
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Although the patterns of interactions along the Silk Roads from 200 B.C.E. to 1450 C.E. changed in the way items were traded and the amount of items traded‚ its continuities stayed relatively the same as it relates to the trade of goods to and from Asia and Europe‚ all of which led to a global connection of trade goods and active worldwide commerce. In the beginning of this period‚ around 200 BCE the Silk Road was just developing and China was in control as the route opened up to the west. Technologies
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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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"Silk Roads or Steppe Roads? The Silk Roads in World History" The main focus‚ or thesis‚ of this article was similar to the likes of Andre Gunder Frank and Barry Gills; that the trans-civilizational and‚ less understood‚ trans-ecological exchanges along the Silk Road linked all regions of the Afro-Eurasian landmass- agrarian civilizations‚ the woodland communities to the north and steppe pastoralists- into a single "world-system" of trade that is several millennia old. Among these exchanges across
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Xiao Jie Yang History 9:30 The Silk Road Journey The Silk Road is one of the oldest and longest trade routes known in the ancient world. Xuan Zang is the only person in history known to have made the whole journey from the Tang capital of Chang’an all the way to India and then back. However‚ his sixteen years‚ ten thousand mile journey is a huge sacrifice that brought culture‚ religion‚ ideas‚ and various commodities together and connected China to the rest of the kingdoms to the west
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what the other had to offer. The Silk Road was the most significant and important trade route for many hundreds of years‚ especially during the Tang dynasty. Although it is called the Silk Road‚ there was a variety of products and even ideas that were transported across the continents. The Silk Road saw many goods‚ such as silk and spices‚ travel from Europe to Asia and from Asia to Europe‚ and the route greatly influenced both the East and West. The Silk Road is said to have started in the 2nd
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Thesis: Although there were similarities between the Atlantic Circuit and Silk Road trade routes‚ there were more significant differences. The first similarity between the Silk Road and the Atlantic Circuit was that both trade routes created a spread of religion and syncretism and adaptations of current religions. For example‚ the Atlantic Circuit spread and created new adaptations of African religions; in the West Indies‚ slaves were encouraged to adopt Catholic religious practices‚ but slaves
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