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Silk Road

Silk Road . Alexis Hwang, Jean Song, Lindsey Kim. Table of contents. Region and climate Trade -Who? -What?. Silk road-region&climate. Taklimakan desert Very little vegetation, no rainfall Sandstorms are very common

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Silk Road

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  1. Silk Road Alexis Hwang, Jean Song, Lindsey Kim

  2. Table of contents • Region and climate • Trade -Who? -What?

  3. Silk road-region&climate • Taklimakan desert • Very little vegetation, no rainfall • Sandstorms are very common • Harsh climate-summer:40’s(temperatures greater than 50 degrees celsius0 -winter:minus20 degree celsius =>sparser resource than Gobi desert

  4. Silk road-trade • Who? Parthian, Kushan-intermediaries between rome and the silk Central Eurasian people • Where? Roman empire through mountains and deserts of Central Asia and India to China. • What? Gold, silver, glass, ceramics, silk, silk-cloth of various colors, ‘fine cloth’(silk-worms), jadestone…

  5. Silkroad-trade • What ideas? -language -military technology -writing(literacy) ->texts, learning of foreign languages, process of book-making, mathematics, medicine, astronomy -Educational institutions(Buddhists->Arabs) -spread of religion along the Silk Road

  6. Spread of religion

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