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Cultural Diffusion

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The Silk Roads Businessmen...Indian camel herders drink their morning tea as they wait to sell or trade their animals at the Pushkar Mela livestock fair in Pushkar, Rajasthan, India.

The Silk Roads Began in the Han Empire The Silk Roads Carried: Luxury Goods Ideas People Silk & Textiles, Spices & Foods, Gold, Salt Religion & Philosophy, Government Systems, Technology Merchants, Slaves As a result, NEW ideas and technologies will be created

The Silk Roads Connected Empires

The Silk Roads Help Develop China in the Tang and Song Dynasties The Chinese Become Masters of Technology The Chinese Become Masters of Technology Paper, Printing, the Compass, and Gunpowder China Was a Land of Luxury China Was a Land of Luxury Silkworms were protected by the ruling dynasty, but often smuggled out illegally Chinese Philosophies Blend Chinese Philosophies Blend Confucianism Buddhism comes with trade Daoism: The Dao, “The Way,” is the universal force guiding all things

Woodcut depicting a woman winding strands of silk from cocoons on a reel in China. The making of silk was extremely labor-intensive; the masses of silkworms, for example, were hand- fed mulberry leaves until they reached maturity, and the task of reeling silk cocoons to obtain thread was only semi-mechanized. Woodcut depicting the preparatory step of cooking bamboo stems in a mixture of water and lime in the traditional papermaking process in China..