1. Silk Roads Explore goods and religions that moved along the Silk Road.
Explore dangers and difficulties of Silk Road travel.
Use these pictures along with maps: -BW_SilkRoads-Base map.pdf - BW_SilkRoads-Towns map.pdf
-color_SilkRoads-Satellite Image11x17.pdf
Title page – these maps show some relationships between Silk Road towns and other environmental conditions on a road that was three times as long as the Oregon Trail and nearly 2000 years earlier!
Carool Gersmehl, May 1, 2009 (These pictures are not copyrighted.) Geography and History Project, Michigan Geographic Alliance; NY Geographic Alliance

2. Trade routes connected large cities of the East and West in 100 CE.

3. (Trade goods and religions)
Silk Roads
1 - What was exchanged
between East and West?
(Trade goods and religions)

4. 1 - What was exchanged between East and West
1 - What was exchanged between East and West? (Trade goods and Religions)

5. Find China (near #1) and Central Asia (near #13) on the map:
The Chinese military wanted to buy horses from Central Asia. Why?

6. Find China and Europe on the map:
Chinese wanted to buy glassware made in Europe and the Middle East.

7. Find Europe, Central Asia, and China on the map:
What cloth did Europeans and Central Asians want to buy from China?
In the mid 1100s, a Chinese artist painted on silk. This painting shows children of a royal family wearing silk clothing.

8. Find Europe, Central Asia, and China on the map:
What cloth did Europeans & Central Asians want to buy from China?
The Chinese learned how to raise “silk worms” and how to unwind silk thread from their cocoons.
The Chinese kept this process a secret!

9. Find Europe and China on the map:
What did Europeans want to buy from China?

10. Find areas near #4 through #21 on the map:
An important religion traveled from India to Silk Road towns and to China.
What was this religion?
These are monks

11. Find areas near #14 on the map:
Another important religion traveled from Arabia to Central Asia, to Silk Road towns and to China. What was this religion?
Minaret and mosque in Bukhara

12. (Trade goods and religions)
Silk Roads
Review
1 - What was exchanged
between East and West?
(Trade goods and religions)
Title page – these maps show some relationships between Silk Road towns and other environmental conditions on a road that was three times as long as the Oregon Trail and nearly 2000 years earlier!

13. 2-What difficulties and dangers did travelers face during the journey
Silk Roads
2-What difficulties and dangers did travelers face during the journey
between East and West?
Title page – these maps show some relationships between Silk Road towns and other environmental conditions on a road that was three times as long as the Oregon Trail and nearly 2000 years earlier!

14. 1 - What difficulties and dangers did travelers face during the journey between East and West?

15. Find #2 through #5 on the map:
What problems did travelers have to prepare for?
Mongolian archer

16. Find #4 (Dunhuang) on the map:
How high are these sand dunes compared to an apartment building?
Strong winds blew sand from a nearby desert. What Desert is #4 (Dunhuang) next to?

17. Find the area near #6 (Turpan) on the map:
Paul Harwood traveled the former Silk Road route and shares this photo of an oasis (Turpan).
Find the area near #6 (Turpan) on the map:
Caravans would stop at an oasis for water and food.
How does water come to an oasis? Where does the water come from?
Part of this photo looks very dry. The green vegetation is in an oasis.

18. Find towns #1 through #17 on the map:
Camels can travel long distances through dry, sandy deserts.
Camels carried heavy loads along the Silk Road.

19. Find towns #1 through #17 on the map:
Bactrian camels (2 humps) carried heavy loads along the Silk Road.
Dromedary camels (1 hump) carried heavy loads from Persia westward between #17 and #27 on the map.

20. Find the areas just west of #10 (Kashgar) (between #10 and #13):
What difficulties and dangers did travelers face in these extremely high mountains?

21. Find the areas just west of #10 (Kashgar) (between #10 and #13):
What difficulties and dangers did travelers face in these extremely high mountains?

22. Find the areas just west of #10 (Kashgar) (between #10 and #13):
Pamir Mountains
The satellite image is from NASA.
Find the areas just west of #10 (Kashgar) (between #10 and #13):
What dangers would travelers face in these extremely high mountains?
Hint: The white in this satellite image shows snow.

23. Silk Roads
Review 2-What difficulties and dangers did travelers face during the journey
between East and West?
Title page – these maps show some relationships between Silk Road towns and other environmental conditions on a road that was three times as long as the Oregon Trail and nearly 2000 years earlier!

24. These photos and pictures were found using the Internet
These photos and pictures were found using the Internet. One photo (Turpan oasis) is from Paul Harwood who traveled the Silk Road in If you use his photos, particularly beyond classroom-educational use, you must give him credit.
The following files provide internet source information: c.Internet_Links for Silk Road Pictures.xls and also d.Internet_National Geographic Photos.doc
The PowerPoint file called SilkRoads#8b-Satellite images-Takalamakan has satellite images from NASA.