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Silk Road

Published on Nov 23, 2015

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PRESENTATION OUTLINE

COUNTRIES INVOLVED

  • extending from Europe through Egypt, Somalia, the Arabian
  • Peninsula, Iran, Afghanistan, Central Asia, Sri Lanka, Pakistan,
  • India, Bangladesh, Burma, Java-Indonesia, Philippines and Vietnam
  • until it reaches China
Photo by Eric Fischer

WHAT IS BEING TRADED

  • You can guess what was traded on the Silk Road
  • The reason for the importance of silk is due, in part to
  • its rarity and beauty.
  • Silk was probably the most valuable and esteemed of the item
  • That we're traded on the road

TIME PERIOD

  • The Silk Road was a network of trade routes, formally
  • established during the Han Dynasty of China
  • The network was used regularly from 130 BCE, when the Han
  • officially opened trade with the west, to 1453 CE
Photo by Cea.

HOW THE SILK ROAD EFFECTED THE WORLD

  • The Silk Road made the world smaller
  • It was the best way to trade with both sides
  • Of Asia and Europe. This made silk more
  • Accessible to European people that
  • Wanted silk.
Photo by cal_harding