The Silk Road served as a link between areas from China to the Middle East. Empires were able to freely trade with other empires thanks to the many centers of trade along the route. At these trading centers‚ merchants traded both goods and culture. For example‚ at Dunhuang‚ Chinese merchants traded silk and horses. At this place‚ there were Buddhist temples carved into the rock face of a nearby cliff. Inside‚ there were statues and brightly colored paintings. In addition to trading goods with the
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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
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The Silk Road and Sea Trade: The Two Drivers to a Worldwide Expansion of Cross-Cultural Connections Before there were trains‚ planes‚ or automobiles‚ people had much more elementary ways of traveling long distances to interact with other cultures. There were no paved highways and signs showing where to turn to get to Mecca. Nope‚ the Mongols had to travel across the terrain that lay ahead of them‚ as difficult as it might have been‚ to conquer the Middle East. Also‚ they had the form of horses
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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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Silk Road was a merchants’ heaven and a consumers’ dream. A place wherecultural diffusion was a natural occurrence and different rich cultures could both spread and blend with freedom and prosperity. This global marketplace was took hundreds of years tostart and played a major factor our cultural past. Due to the combination of people‚ products‚ideas‚ and modes of transit‚ the first global marketplace was able to widely spread differentcultural ideas‚ beliefs‚ and lifestyles across Europe and Asia
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Exchanges on the Silk Roads After the fall of the Mauryas‚ the Kushan kingdom became the main political force in northern India. They were located across the main trade routes‚ and the Kushans prospered on the trade that was happening in that area. That area of trade and exchange was known as the Silk Road. The Silk Road was a trade route located between the Roman Empire and China‚ which also had a section that passed through the mountains northwest of India. From that area‚ goods where shipped
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stability. The boundaries that were formed by the Qin were still maintained‚ extended and secured. The Chinese control over strategic stretches of Central Asia led to the opening of the Silk Road. Silk Road is a land route that linked China by trade all the way to Rome. One of the precious goods that were traded was silk‚ which had been cultivated and woven in China since at least the third millennium BCE. Paper was invented during Han dynasty but it was not used for paintings until later‚
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Spreading from China to Rome‚ the Silk Road was established during the Han Dynasty‚ 206 B.C.E to 220 C.E.‚ due to the stability of this period and the increase in trade it brought. While fulfilling its initial function‚ throughout the period‚ 200 B.C.E to 1450 C.E.‚ multiple modifications did transpire. Trade of merchandise stayed constant‚ trade became more customary‚ while the focus of materials shifted over time. Geographically the Silk Road was altered overtime as political boundaries
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The Silk Road was a trade route for the merchants and for the transport of goods and ideas that connected world long ago. At times‚ the Silk Road could be extremely dangerous. According to journeysonthesilkroad.com‚ some of those dangers were death from starving‚ extreme thirst‚ being attacked by bandits and sandstorms. The nomadic Mongols lived in the areas that a certain merchant‚ Marco Polo‚ visited. In those areas‚ Mongols were extremely militaristic‚ campaigning near the same routes that Marco
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The Silk Road: CCOT Essay The Silk Road was an immense network of commerce that established relations between China and the west. Long distance trade enabled large imperial states to obtain luxury goods through overland trade routes‚ which eventually led not only to the spread of products but disease and religion as well. Between 200 and 1450 BCE‚ there were numerous changes along the silk routes that affected the rise and fall of many empires‚ including the spread of religion‚ products‚ and disease
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