1. How did the Silk Road enable Extensive Cultural Diffusion?
World of Trade
How did the Silk Road enable Extensive Cultural Diffusion?

2. Silk Road Trade
Traded goods such as spices, silks, porcelains, etc.

3. Silk Road Trade

4. Xi’an (Chang’an) one of the biggest cities in the world
a center of international trade.
Silk Road started here

5. Dunhuang

6. Gobi Desert

7. Taklamakan Desert

9. Spread of Buddhism

10. Samarkand
Fruit markets
Oasis of Ismail (a Muslim ruler) = garden city

11. Baghdad Means “east gate”
Was the largest city in the world in the year 900
Was a center of learning for the Muslim world

12. Damascus
Caravans
One of the starting points of the silk road

13. Byzantium/ Constantinople/Istanbul
End/beginning = starting point for the European market = very wealthy

14. World Travellers
Marco Polo – known for his travels across China and his accounts of Kublai Khan

15. World Travellers
Ibn Battuta – a world renowned traveller who journeyed across North Africa, through the Middle East (Southwest Asia) and reached China

16. World Travellers
Xuanzang – A Chinese Buddhist monk who travelled through China, to India compiling Buddhist texts