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The Silk Road The Parthians arrived from the eastside of the Caspian Sea around 247 B.C.E. Around 128 B.C.E. Zhang Jian, a general, traveled across Inner Asia on the order of Emperor Wu. Traveling over great distances was better for people in the mountain regions than the Chinese people. From his journey Zhang brought back the alfalfa and grapes to make wine. The Sasanid Empire, 224-600 The Sasanid Empire began in the Middle East and extended the grudge between Romans and Parthians. The religion

In “A Silk Road Legacy: The Spread of Buddhism and Islam” by Xinru Liu of the College of New Jersey, Journal of World History 22 (March 2011): 55-73, she examines the religious and social lives of the Central Asian peoples, both before and after the Islamic occupation between 700 and 1100 CE, despite the difficulties of finding reliable data due to an “extremely fluid nature of the region’s ethnic, religious, and political composition”. Xinru, a peasant girl that worked her way through factory life

Silk Road and the Internet Inside every working anarchy there's an Old Boy Network. The internet is a great and popular invention that has changed, developed and improved today’s society. Yo-Yo Ma, once described the famous historical Silk Road as the ‘Internet of Antiquity’ meaning, the ancient internet, how and why would Yo-Yo Ma come to such a theory, the Silk Road and the internet may not have existed during the same period of time but there are similarities and difference to prove Yo-Yo Ma’s

unknowingly developed one of the most important systems of their times. They established the revolutionary Silk Road, which was influential to the growth and enlargement of Eurasia. The Silk Road, present during 600-1450 CE expanded cultures and religion, in particular Buddhism, however most microeconomics remained unchanged in the regions around the Silk Road. During the time 600-1450 CE, the Silk Road was just starting to develop. Trade between inner Eurasia and outer Eurasia induced the influential

political missions were dispatched to Central Asia. Silk Road is actually a collective name of roads. It happened in the first 1000 years after Christ , when men , merchants , military , missionaries and monks travelled on vast routes that connected Europe, India and the Far east .The Silk road passed through many settlements , from big cities like Samarkand to tiny desert hamlets. Susan Whitfield portrays lives of 10 individuals who lived along the silk road. She uses firsthand accounts and resources

Essay Jack Walker The Silk Road from the period of 200bce to 1450ce had many patterns of interaction that change and stayed the same over time. The patterns of interaction that changed over 200bce to 1450ce were the safety of the roads due to expansion of government with protective borders. Items that were traded along the Silk Road changed during the years 200bce to 1450ce. Lastly religion exchange on the Silk Road changed during the years of 200bce to 140ce. The patterns

Ever wondered about the Silk Road? How does it affect how the world now in days? Ever wondered why it was called the Silk Road? Ever wondered how the Silk Road was created? Was it actually a road? Well it was an ancient trade route that connected China to the West. The rest is answered in this essay. First, the Silk Road was a network of trade routes. This is stated at Brainpop.com 35 seconds into the video “Silk Road is a misleading term as it is actually a network of trade routes.” It also states

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

Xinru Liu, the author of The Silk Roads: A Brief History with Documents, claimed that “of the religions that prevailed in [the Kushan] territories…Buddhism was among the most influential”(11). In this essay, I will attempt to demonstrate why Buddhism had a significant impact on societies along the Silk Roads. This significant impact of Buddhism is evident in the culture, economy, and religions attitudes of the people living along the Silk Roads. The spread of Buddhism along the trade routes had

but how did it work on the ancient Silk Road? Chinese, Roman, Greek, and Europeans all traded along it. But the Silk Road isn’t really a single road. It was a network of different routes that changed the world. The three most important ways the Silk Road affected the world was with technology, ideas, and science. To start off, technology was one of the parts that helped the Silk Road. Items like compasses, gunpowder, and paper money was all traded on the Silk Road.In the Ted Ed video it states,”