Silk

Silk has been in existence for thousands of years and has connected to the world in many significant ways. Silk is often just seen as a luxury fabric, but it has been monumental to agriculture and collective learning all over the world. Silk is also made up of a complex chemical structure, within which are elements that date back to the Big Bang (“Unit - Chemistry of Textiles Fibres”). Although often thought of just a part of fashion, silk is made up of elements dating back to the Big Bang, made

From 500 BCE to 1000 CE, the Silk Roads served as a vessel for safer trade routes of various goods and promulgation of religious ideals across distant lands. However the continuous use of these routes also opened the door for the possibility of disease and epidemics to spread throughout the lands and drastically affect the economy of those settlements connected by the silk roads. When the Silk roads and Mediterranean sea lanes were first set in place around 500 BCE they were initially intended

Did you know that the Silk Road was the world's first super highway? can prove that the Silk Road, had many goods, so so so much culture behind it, and was legendary.First, the Silk Road was said to be legendary.According to Background Essay section 1, ''The Heavenly Horses are coming Across the pastureless wilds A thousand legs at a stretch Following by the eastern road.''The text is by Wu-Ti a HAN empire. So, empires had most likely thought that it was legendary and it was, it brought horses, a

The ancient Silk Road promoted an exchange of good and ideas. The ancient Silk Road was a trade route which people used materials that other civilization had never seen before. Silk was a popular trade item because it was smooth and light. The founder of the Silk Road was originally going on the route to make a peace treaty. Along the way culture was spread and new teachings, in India, the religion Buddhism was also passed along because of the Silk Road. The Silk Road changed the world forever

statement in the box: The Silk Road was where ancient people traded goods like silk and more. Transition + Your own original Reason, Detail, or Fact For example in Document E, Markanda traded 10 ceramic vases for 20 bags of indian pepper(1 pound each) In Document E, Dunhuang traded 1 book of confucian lessons for 1 book of buddhist prayers One supporting Example or Evidence from text or source document This shows that ancient people wanted goods from other places. For example Silk was traded many times

Type your Claim/Thesis statement in the box: In ancient times,The Silk Road made it easier to travel and to transport goods. Transition + Your own original Reason, Detail, or Fact For example, It made it easy to get to cities from where they were. In document E it states that, they started off at Marakanda and they were arriving at Antioch and through Iran and Iraq. It was a faster route to get to those places and to transport the goods that that town needed. This was not a single road, it was

The Silk Road helped join together the eastern and western parts of Afro-Eurasia. China was able to secure and expand the Silk road which enabled China to be more open to the populations and cultures of its far western regions. The Silk road allowed the spread of Buddhism from India into central Asia and China. Buddhism completely transformed the Chinese Empire and Buddhist cave monasteries formed along the route into China. Brahmanism was the Vedic religion did not claim to be a universal faith

“Crossroads and Cultures”: A history of the World’s Peoples and “Life along the Silk Road” integrate the most reflecting cultural history into fresh and most original narratives, which connect global developmental patterns with current life. The two books highlights times and places when people interacted through commerce, technological spread, conflicts, and socially, which joined their lives, into a broad sweep of global history. People have benefited from the two books, even in the current world

Iris Huang Yan Liu History 181: Asian Civilizations 1 24 October 2017 No peace without a princess In the book, Life along the Silk Road by Susan Whitfield, accounts of individuals living along the Silk Road were reconstructed to provide readers the personal experiences each faced. Focusing on The Princess’s Tale chapter, it tells a story of a woman named Taihe, an imperial princess, who was chosen to fulfill a promise to a Uygur khagan. It was tradition to send off a princess to another kingdom

The Silk Road was not the only trading route that developed new civilizations, there were other contributors too, like the Sea Roads. The Sea Road was known for developing Swahili, an East African civilization. Swahili started as small farming and fishing communities. Strayer implemented that traded was frequent with Arabian, Greek and Roman merchants during the second-wave era. Strayer also mentioned how the Swahili civilization expanded rapidly, allowing citizens to achieve opportunities for wealth