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Here are the teacher pack items for East and West: History of the Silk Road:
Overview In this experience, students examine the Silk Road as a network that connected societies across Eurasia through the movement of goods, ideas, technologies, religions, and cultural traditions. They explore how important Silk Road cities became centers of trade and cultural diffusion, then study the rise of the Mongol Empire and its effects on travel, trade, and communication across the region. Finally, students analyze how Mongol conquest and rule both disrupted societies and strengthened connections along parts of the Silk Road. Objectives:
For centuries, merchants, travelers, religious teachers, diplomats, and armies moved across a vast network of routes connecting societies across Eurasia and beyond. Today, historians commonly refer to these routes as the Silk Road.
The Silk Road was not a single road. It was a network of land and sea routes that connected parts of East Asia, Central Asia, South Asia, Southwest Asia, North Africa, and Europe. Silk from China became one of the most famous goods traded along these routes, but travelers also carried spices, horses, metals, glassware, paper, and many other products.
Trade moved more than goods. Religions, technologies, artistic ideas, languages, and scientific knowledge also spread as people from different societies came into contact. Disease could travel along the same routes as well.
During the 1200s and 1300s, the Mongol Empire and the states that followed it controlled large parts of Eurasia. Mongol rule helped connect many regions and, for a time, made long-distance travel and trade across parts of the Silk Road easier.
In this experience, you will examine how the Silk Road connected different societies and how trade, migration, cultural diffusion, and Mongol rule helped shape the regions linked by these routes.
Objectives:
When people from distant places trade with one another, what might spread besides goods?
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