SILK ROAD

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

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

COOL VIDEO

• http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vfe-eNq-Qyg

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.