1. Trade between and among the classical civilizations

2. Silk Road About Silk Roads When What Where Significance
-A network of roads, generally going East and West
-Ancient Trade routes across Asia
-Link China w/ the west
What
When
-Great trade routes
-Introduce plants
-Arts and Music
-Religions
-200BCE to 400CE
-The beginning of cross-culture
-Han & Rome
Silk Road
<What>
A network of roads, generally going East and West
Land routes across Asia
Ancient trade route
Link China w/ the west – carried goods and ideas b/w two great civilizations of Rome and China
<When>
200BCE to 400 CE
Despite under the various political oppression, it linked the West with China much earlier than Han times
the beginning of cross-culture(Roman and Han empire)
<Where>
Originated at Sian, China
The road split into northern and southern branches that skirted the desert and passed through the numerous oasis towns on its fringes. The road continued through Ferghana to Transoxiana
The branch led to northwestern India however, leading through Persia to the Caspian Sea, Mesopotamia, Egypt, the Levant, Asia Minor and the Roman Empire.
Also sea lanes – India Ocean
By the first BCE, the sea lanes linked ports in southeast Asia, India, Persia, Arabia, Egypt, and east Africa
<Why>
stretching some 4000 to 5000 miles across Asia,
Serve as a conduit not only for goods but also for skills and ideas
Commodities were traded well
Intorcude a number of plants into China
A route for the spread of religions, (Buddhism, which originated in what is now northeastern India, and Manichaeanism)
Means by which art and music spread and evolved
ex)Serindian – an artistic style complex of China, Greece and Indian
-Originated at Sian, China
-Land Lanes and Sea Lanes linked Asia and Europe
Where
Significance

3. Traded with countries regions and countries such as Asia, Persia, Roman Empire and etc.
Traded using both the land routes and sea routes
Trade done by merchants, Malay, and Indian mariners
Exports-Spices, cotton textiles, ivory, corals, jewels, etc.
Imports-Works of art, wood and linen textiles
Buddhism also spread from India to other regions on the Silk Road

4. Who? Traders of various Asian nationalities & merchants+travelers
Wine, olive oil, jewelry, works of art, iron tools, bronze goods, wool
Spices, pepper, cosmetics, pearls, gems, slaves
Horses, jade, silk
Who? Traders of various Asian nationalities & merchants+travelers
-The Roman emperors, wealthy citizens: 
Wants? Newest, luxurious textile(spices, perfumes, silk)
-b/c big expansion-> bigger demand for new goods
How? traveled the silk routes to caravan cities near the
Mediterranean(link the ends of the Eurasian landmass)

5. China Trades on Silk Road
Q5. How was trade conducted?
China traded through the Silk Road and by Indian Sea.
Q3. What did they want from other places?
China wanted large, strong horses, plants, grapes, pomegranates, walnuts, cucumbers, sesame, alfafa
Q4. Who did the trading?
Individual traders such as merchants and Zhang Qian and embassador named Gang Ying traded with
Q2. Who did they trade with?
China traded with Roman empire, central Asia, Iran, Arabia, Egypt, North Africa through the silk routes.
Q1. What did the people in China trade along the Silk Routes?
They traded High quality silk, ginger, cinnamon, spices, Ivory, Precious stones, Ceramics, Incense, Paper, Spices, Horses and other animals, Hides, Furs, Tapestries and rugs
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6. NOMADS What s a “nomad”? Roles of Nomads NOMADS
LINKS OF SILK ROAD TRADE
SETTLERS
-Group of people who move back and forth between the same forest and grazing areas
-Low human population density
-Economic
specialization: hunters-and-gatherers , pastoral nomads and peripatetic nomads
-Political feature: loose governmental structure; tribal life
-People who reside in one place permanently
-Comparatively high human population density
-Economic specialization: agriculture
-Political feature: existence of more official and formal institution
Facilitated commercial trade
Medium of transferring ideas
Technological exchange

7. Religions along the Silk Road
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Buddhism
: spread through the Silk Road during the trade
: Buddhist traders: close with other countries-effective trading and religious exchange↑
Islam
:Trading via Silk Road ↑ in Islam Countries
b/c they have tent cultures
ex) carpets, rugs, tapestries ↑
Hinduism
: developed as the Kush Empire developed – dominating the Silk Road
: Kush Empire adapted Bacteria’s culture to settle down safely.
ex) caste hierarchy, religious organizations, many other Indian beliefs
: many Indian people migrated to the Kush Empire when it developed

8. Manichaeism (explanation)
: Songdiana(Manichaeism) predominated the Silk Road &
Manichaeism spread via the silk Road
: Religious exchange through the Silk Road formed
Manichaeism through the process of Syncretism
Confucianism
: had negative effect, losing family ties ↑, hard to maintain doctrines of Confucianism
Zoroastrianism
: Persia: silk textile technology ↑,trading ↑, Zoroastrianism spread through the Silk Road
: location of the country – the middle of Asia and Europe
: Songdiana: when its power increases, spread to many other countries

9. Dunang

10. Significance of Dunang for Religion
Digging technology and ability to transfer water through canals enlarge areas suitable for cultivation
Establishment of other religions in China, especially Buddhism from India (most successful)
“Syncretism of religions rather than a pure conversion”
Buddhist cave temples in Dunang, depicting events in the lives of the Buddha
(ex) Mogao Grottoes

11. Q1) What diseases were spread along the silk rOAD?
Q2) What are the impacts on Major population Centers?
Q3) What are the long-term effect of Epidemics?
Bubonic Plague & Small Pox & Measles
Substantially Decreased the Population
Outbreak of Disease
Spread from China to Roman Empire
= HIGHLY CONTAGIOUS & LEATHAL!!!
Spread along to Silk Road
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Contagious Diffusion
Demise of Population
Weakened Empires M
Shrink of Silk Road
Diseases spread along the Silk Road
and Effects on overall trade

12. the major maritime trade routes
India to Persia, Middle east and North Africa
In Arabian and Red sea
Major cities
Calicut, Hormuz, Basra, Suez and Aden
Major cities/ ports before 1000 C.E.
- Cantan, Tamralipura, quilon, Calicut, Cambay.
After 1000 C.E
-Gwuang Zhou and Hang Zhou replaced.

13. What was traded along these routes?
Silk Road
~ Traded Goods ~
By Grant
Roman
Exports: jewelry, perfumes, bronze goods, wool and linen textiles, pottery, iron tools, wine, olive oil, glassware
Imports: food, slaves, animals, spices, silk, incense, ivory, cotton
China
Exports: silk, lacquer ware, votive mirrors, ginger, cinnamon
Imports: horses, spices, precious stones, trepang, mother-of-pearl
Other Nations
- Southeast Asia: fine-spics, cinnamon, sesame oil
- India: sesame oil, pearls, coral, ivory, textile goods, pepper
- Central Asia: horses, jade
- Mediterranean: raw materials
Religion
Spreading of Buddhism +
Hinduism
Christianity
= Manichaeism