The roman empire and the kushan empire which ruled territory in. As an important material exchange channel, the silk road primitively connected the goods circulation between the east and the west of the world and later was branded as a cultural exchange. Influential women background and discussion questions connecting the lives of four famous women to silk road themes. The silk road was the contemporary name for a comple. You know it as a trade network, but the silk road began as the han dynasty was seeking allies to the west to help fight against the dreaded xiongnu basically, the bad guys in mulan. This is strictly a economic history of the silk road as a trade system. The history of the silk road in china routes, chronology. Connecting the ancient world through trade shannon harris castelo by teded. A history of china to 1600, negotiating daily life in traditional china, and voyages in world history coauthored with kenneth r.
The caravans that employed this method to exchange silk with other merchants were generally quite large. What began as a cry for help developed into a network of. The silk road was the contemporary name for a complex of ancient trade routes linking east asia with central asia, south asia, and the mediterranean world. You could hear the goats bleats, the dogs barks, and so much more. This semester we have learned knowledge about all aspects of the silk road, and now, when we look again toward the road with vicissitudes in the sand and the long silence, as if we can also through thousands of years of time to see its prosperity.
The eastwest trade routes between greece and china began to open during the first and second centuries b. Liu pays close attention to the new oxford world history series theme of presenting local history in a global context. This network of exchange emerged along the borders between agricultural china and the steppe nomads during the han dynasty 206bce220ce, in consequence of the interdependence and the conflicts of these two distinctive societies. This silk was found in the henan province, a region widely regarded as the cradle of chinese civilization. Important essay for the world history classroom by robert shaffer from the world history bulletin, fall, 2008. Dec 12, 2016 silk road, a trade and cultural exchanges road which have more than two thousand years of the history. Apr 23, 2020 the silk road, a network of land and sea trade routes that connected china and the far east with europe from b. The silk road survived the turmoil of the demise of the han and roman empires, reached its golden age during the early middle age, when the byzantine empire and the tang empire became centers of silk culture and established the models for high culture of the eurasian world. The silk road is as iconic in world history as the colossus of rhodes or the suez canal. Terhan, with religious extremism, tyranny, violence, war and anarchy, not at the time when the silk road flourished, as beautiful wealthy cities of stabilty, relative tolerance at least compared to the europe of the middle ages that cultivated the arts, literature and.
Peter frankopan is a trained historian, and so knows how to synthesise a great deal of information from cultures across asia and europe. Because of that, this book gets rather dull and selective at times. The silk road in world history book by xinru liu the silk road was the contemporary name for a complex of ancient trade routes linking east asia with central asia, south asia, and the mediterranean world. A new history of the world the region of the silk roads is obscure to many in the englishspeaking world. As we get into the first few centuries bce or the first few centuries of the common era. How the black death spread along the silk road history. The silk road primarily refers to the land routes connecting east asia and southeast asia with south asia, persia, the. It was the center of the cultural, economic, political, and religious interactions between various eurasian regions from the 2nd century bce to the 18th century. Arts and humanities world history 600 bce 600 ce secondwave civilizations transregional trade. Spices on the silk road you might hear a lot of things.
A new history of the world is a 2015 nonfiction book written by peter frankopan, an english academic at the university of oxford. Mongol interethnic exchanges 11901252 empress irene. As the silk road was not a single thoroughfare from east to west, the term silk routes has become increasingly favored by historians, though silk road is the more common and recognized name. The silk road was the contemporary name for a complex of ancient trade routes linking east asia with central asia, south asia, and the. Within hours of his arrest, silk road s domain had been seized, the market was shut down and ross ulbrichts grand plans to make the world a better place were in disarray. A perilous network of paths that flourished from around 200 bc until the middle ages, the silk road stretched more than 7,000 miles from east to west, a meandering skein of trails that formed one of the most transformative superhighways in human history. This article is more than 4 years old seeing the world its history, its future from another angle. Ap world history silk road the silk road was used as a vast network of trading routes that connected the east to the west.
You could hear all different types of animals you have never even known about. From the middle east and its political instability to china and its economic rise, the vast region stretching eastward from the balkans across the steppe and. Established when the han dynasty in china officially opened trade with the west in. Read and learn for free about the following article. The silk road was a network of trade routes connecting china and the far east with the middle east and europe. It conjures up a hazy image of a caravan of camels laden with silk on a dusty desert track, reaching from china to rome. The silk roads in world history 5 the historiography of the silk roads has mainly focused on trans civilizational exchanges because it has relied largely on literate sources.
This network of exchange emerged along the borders between agricultural china and the steppe nomads during the han dynasty 206bce220ce, in consequence of the interdependence and the. The silk road in world history paperback xinru liu. Its routes contended with vast distances, towering mountain ranges, and hostile deserts. Trade began thousands of years ago because the tradesmen found that ferrying products was profitable, and silk was one of the main trade items. China also received nestorian christianity and buddhism from india via the route. In which john green teaches you about the so called silk road, a network of trade routes where goods such. The main road left from xian, going either to the north or south of the taklamakan desert, one of the most arid in the world, before crossing the pamir mountains. Shannon harris castelo unfolds the history of the 5,000mile silk road, a network of multiple routes that used the common language of commerce to connect the world s major settlements, thread by thread. Silk road project women in world history curriculum most broadly, the standards mandated themes of patterns of interaction and of historical developments that cut across civilizations and conventional regions are met.
The silk road in world history pdf ebook download free. Silk road, ancient trade route, linking china with the west, that carried goods and ideas between the two great civilizations of rome and china. Find all the books, read about the author, and more. Broad themes of commercial and cultural exchange are discussed, but the author also offers specific examples of merchants, adventurers, and local officials who lived or traveled among the peoples of the silk road. But as well see, the silk road will continue on for many hundreds or really over a thousand years. The book barely touches upon the cultural, religious, and even political history of the silk road and its heartland, central asia. The silk road in world history association for asian studies. The silk road was an ancient network of trade routes, formally established during the han dynasty of china, which linked the regions of the ancient world in commerce between bce1453 ce. The silk road is the world s longest and most historically important overland trade route.
The silk road in world history paperback xinru liu oxford. Through trade and travel along the road, the cultures throughout eurasia developed economically. Along with all these consumer goods, things like disease and ideas made the trip as well. All the questions on this quiz are based on information that can be found on the page at ancient china the silk road. Pdf the silk road in world history by xinru liu warner. The silk road was the prototype for globalization and shaped the modern world. This network of exchange emerged along the borders between agricultural china and the steppe nomads during the. For webquest or practice, print a copy of this quiz at ancient china the silk road webquest print page. Attempted murder when ross ulbricht eventually found himself in court, one of the more surprising charges on the rap sheet were six counts of procuring murder.
A new history of the world illustrated edition by peter frankopan and neil packer nov 27, 2018 2. A new history of the world paperback march 7, 2017. The history of the silk road predates the han dynasty in practice, however, as the persian royal road, which would come to serve as one of the main arteries of the silk road, was established during the achaemenid empire 500330 bce. Xinru liu the silk road was the contemporary name for a complex of ancient trade routes linking east asia with central asia, south asia, and the mediterranean world. So what we talked about in this video was the very beginning of the silk road. The silk roads is part of the genre of popular history books that purports to tell the history of the world through one particular theme or from one particular vantage point, and is better than most of them. In which john green teaches you about the socalled silk road, a network of trade routes where goods such as ivory, silver, iron, wine, and yes, silk were exchanged across the ancient world, from china to the west.
Connecting women to the silk road main menu women in world. Whether to aspects of history, economic, culture or tourism, the silk road has an indelible significance. With modern technology, a global exchange of goods and ideas can happen at the click of a button. The silk road, a transeurasian network of trade routes connecting east and southeast asia to central asia, india, southwest asia, the mediterranean, and northern europe, which flourished from roughly 100 bce to around 1450, has enjoyed two modern eras of intense academic study. This network of exchange emerged along the borders between agricultural china and the steppe nomads during the han dynasty, in consequence. The ancient trade routes that made up the silk road were some of the great conduits of cultural and material exchange in world history.
The silk road was a network of trade routes which connected the east and west, and was central to the economic, cultural, political, and religious interactions between these regions from the 2nd century bce to the 18th century. The reality was differentand far more interestingas revealed in this new history. The silk road toward the west was opened by the chinese in the 2nd century ad. The silk road was a network of trade routes which connected the east and west, and was. Mar 07, 2017 far more than a history of the silk roads, this book is truly a revelatory new history of the world, promising to destabilize notions of where we come from and where we are headed next. As a result, conventional chronologies of silk roads history are dom inated by fluctuations in the trade between major agrarian civilizations. Jul 09, 2010 the silk road was the contemporary name for a complex of ancient trade routes linking east asia with central asia, south asia, and the mediterranean world.
As a result, conventional chronologies of silk roads history are dom inated by fluctuations in. Yet the region linking east with west is where civilisation itself began, where the worlds great religions were born and took root, where goods were exchanged, and where languages, ideas and disease spread. The silk road was the arterial system that linked remote civilizations and great empires to one another. Learn vocabulary, terms, and more with flashcards, games, and other study tools. The logistics and expertise required for a successful expedition were sophisticated and ancient. The silk road from its opening to its closure had so great an impact on the development of world civilization that it is difficult to imagine the. Jun 03, 2014 shannon harris castelo unfolds the history of the 5,000mile silk road, a network of multiple routes that used the common language of commerce to connect the world s major settlements, thread by. The silk road is the worlds longest and most historically important overland trade route. The above link is a pdf file of the six pages extracted from the. The oldest silk found in china has been dated to about 3630 bc, which means that it is from the chinese neolithic period.