1. Teaching about the Silk Roads Myth, Mystery, and Mayhem

2. Map of the Ancient Silk Roads

3. Map of China

4. Conduit between East and West Commercial trade goods Travelers of all kinds Migrations of peoples Armies and conquests Inventions and discoveries Ideas and religions Art, culture, and music

5. Central Asian Oud

6. The Chinese Pipa

7. Japanese Satsuma Biwa, played with Plectrum

8. Renaissance Lute

9. Geography Multiple environments on the silk roads Relation of environment to life style Population constraints and problems

10. Steppelands: what kind of life do they allow?

11. Nomads and their portable home, the yurt

12. Bactrian camels: The workhorses of the Silk Roads

13. A camel can carry 1,000lbs and go 15 days without water

14. Sheep are the basis of life in the desert and steppe

15. Horses: transport, trade and war

16. What kind of life is there in the desert?

17. Entrance to a karez: underground water system

18. Karez system: lifeblood of the Silk Roads

19. What kind of life does one have in the mountains?

20. Yaks: Carrying loads in the mountains

21. Inventions on the Silk Roads:The stirrup and the cross bow

22. The Mystery of Silk

23. From worm to cocoon

24. Unreeling the thread

25. And finally, cloth

26. Chinese inventions that changed the world

27. Chinese porcelain

28. Inventions the Chinese Borrowed: Glassware and the Chair

29. Travelers on the Silk Roads Zhang Qian Fa Xian Xuan Zang Genghis Khan Marco Polo Ibn Battuta Aurel Stein Mildred French

30. Zhang Qian’s Route

31. Buddhist Pilgrim Fa Xian Description of the Taklamakan desert In this desert there are great many evil spirits and hot winds; those who encounter them perish to a man. There are neither birds above nor beasts below. Gazing on all sides as far as the eye can reach in order to mark the track, no guidance is to be obtained save from the rotting bones of dead men, which point the way."

32. Buddhist Pilgrim Xuan Zang

33. World conqueror Genghis Khan

34. Marco Polo

35. Muslim Traveler Ibn Battuta

36. “Foreign Devils” on the Silk Road Aurel Stein and others

37. Foreign Devil on the Silk Road Aurel Stein

38. Mildred Cable Missionaries on the Silk Road

39. Migrations of peoples Mummies of Loulan

40. Groups traveled East to West and West to East Yuezhi Xiong Nu Kitan Turkish groups (Uyghurs, Kazaks, Usbeks, Turks, etc) Mongols Chinese Persians Arabs Russians

41. Conquerors on the Silk Road Xiong Nu (Huns) Mongols Alexander the Great Tibetans Arabs Turkic Tribes Russians Chinese

42. Xiong Nu or Huns

43. Genghis and the Mongol Conquests

44. Alexander the Great

45. Tibetan Armies

46. Arab Islamic armies conquer silk road nations

47. The Great Game: Russians, Chinese and British struggle over “Chinese Turkistan”

48. Religions on the Silk Road Zoroastrianism Nestorian Christianity Manichaeism Buddhism Islam

49. Zoroastriaism

50. Nestorian Christianity

51. Manichaeism

52. Buddhism

53. Dunhuang oasis

54. Cave temple front

55. Temple entrance

56. Buddha and Attendants

57. Dunhuang wall painting

58. Heavenly musicians

59. Boddhisattva playing the Harp

60. Apsara with Harp

61. Heavenly kings of the North and South

62. Heavenly Kings of the West and East

63. Buddhist chanting

64. Monk and Lay Person

65. Islam Emin Minaret

66. Id Kah Mosque in Kashgar

67. Great Mosque of Xi’an

68. Dongguan mosque in Xining

69. Dongguan mosque #2

70. Niujie (Ox Street) Mosque

71. Islamic Recitations. TRANSLATION OF THE CALL TO PRAYER God is most great. God is most great. God is most great. God is most great. I testify that there is no God except God. I testify that there is no God except God. I testify that Muhammad is the messenger of God. I testify that Muhammad is the messenger of God. Come to prayer! Come to prayer! Come to success! Come to success! God is most great. God is most great. There is none worthy of worship except God.

72. Mosque in Herat

73. Calligraphy

74. Non-representational art of Islam