Silk was considered a highly desired commodity across Eurasia. One reason behind this was the fact that silk was used as currency and as a means of accumulating wealth in Central Asia. It then became a symbol of high status in other parts such as China. It also became associated with the sacred expanding world religions of Buddhism and Christianity. There were various major economic, social, and cultural consequences of Silk Road commerce.
The Silk Road began in the 2nd century BCE with the diplomatic missions of Zhang Qian sent by the Han Emperor. The Silk Road was largely fragmented, commodities carried by merchants of many countries on the Silk Road from present day China to present day Turkey. The interaction of these different cultures created a cultural diffusion that can be seen in the resulting names, tools, jewelry, luxuries and house wares that these different societies adopted. Silk was one of the most important items traded along the Silk Road. Once the Silk Road was open techniques of weaving the silken thread did not begin to spread because this material was similar to that used by cloth weavers.
The Silk Road was a complex network of trading routes that spanned from eastern Europe to China, that allowed many goods to travel from city to city. During the Silk Road’s main prominence from around 200 B.C.E. to 1450 C.E., many changes took place - including ones that have drastically altered societies with change in both social hierarchies and major religions. However, even with the plethora of cultural changes that took place, a few aspects of the societies of the time stayed consistent, most noticeably the desire for luxury goods by the upper class. The Silk Road resulted in many changes to the social hierarchies of the time, especially in the treatment of women and merchants. In the second-wave civilizations prior to the road’s prominence, women and merchant were viewed as much lower members of society.
AP World Exam Brandon Ellestad Period 3 The Silk road was a ancient network of trading, that provided routes for trade and cultural exchanges to people in differents areas. During the time period of 200 CE and 1500 CE, the silk road underwent some transformations while still staying true to its original purpose. During that time period, the Silk road would have an influence on the change of major religions. With these changes, the need for luxury goods by the upper class stayed consistent within the society along the Silk road.
The silk road was helpful to the people in china, central asia, Africa, and India/all the way to Rome and beyond because of the trade routes the silk road was able to have the right resources to make it successful and helpful to others who trade. Transition + Your own original Reason, Detail, or Fact For example, where the trade routes went across most of the whole entire world. For, trading horses, orange seeds, grape seeds, or anything popular or needed during their time made the trade routes easier so they wouldn’t have to travel all the way to go trade and get what they had needed. One supporting Example or Evidence from text or source document To explain, in the article “The Silk Road” it says, the silk road has been an important part of success domestication of the camel which was an animal that could carry heavy loads over
Even though the Silk Road and the Mediterranean Sea Trade Complex were both very influential, the Silk Road’s influence expanded wider than the Mediterranean Sea trade Complex’s. The Silk Road was much larger than the Mediterranean Sea
Did you know that gunpowder was made in Ancient China? Gunpowder was later traded along the silk road. There were many other objects exchanged along the silk road that have an impact on life today, including Gunpowder, Paper, and Silk. To begin with paper was invented in in 100 C.E. The very first paper was made from rags. Now paper is made of trees and bamboo.
But during the Silk Road, they would use caravans, camels, horses, and boats. In the Colombian exchange they usually traded people, plants, animals, and diseases. In the Silk Road they mainly traded silk, plants, and animals. There were many important people during these times such as Ibn Battuta, Marco Polo, Christopher Columbus,
During the time period of 600 CE to 1450 CE, people on the Indian Ocean sea lanes and on the Eurasian Silk Roads traded luxury items and used their new technology to help trade prosper. Although they were both trade routes, the Indian Ocean sea lanes traded overseas and the Eurasian Silk Roads were land routes. Indian Ocean sea lanes connect Southeast Asia, India, Arabia, and East Africa. The Eurasian Silk Roads connected East and West China to the Mediterranean. Trade was greatly increasing in these two trade routes around this time.
Laila was a trader from the Arabian Peninsula, she was a Bedouin woman that used to travel in caravans to Mesopotamia all the way to Turkey and back to the Arabian peninsula. She would gather many items such as pottery, weaved rugs, silks cloth, and spices as well as jewelry made in the Arabian peninsula what is now known as Saudi Arabia, Oman, and the other gulf states. These desert lands were harsh and dangerous to transverse. She had crossed deserts by camel caravans that comprised of up to thirty to four camels and a group of merchants that traveled together for protection and support to make it through the dangerous and difficult terrain. The crew she traveled with comprised of professional, skilled travelers who were experts in astronomy and could navigate their way through the desert 's sandy mountains and had only the stars to help them find their way through the never-ending sand that changed with the blowing winds, as well as their memory of the paths leading to other cities and countries.
The Silk Road was a network of trade routes, formally established during the Han Dynasty of China, which linked the regions of the ancient world in commerce. 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. Both terms for this network of roads were coined by the German geographer and traveler, Ferdinand von Richthofen, in 1877 CE, who designated them 'Seidenstrasse’ (silk road) or 'Seidenstrassen’ (silk routes). The network was used regularly from 130 BCE, when the Han officially opened trade with the west, to 1453 CE, when the Ottoman Empire boycotted trade with the west and closed the routes.
The Silk Road was established in 206 BC to AD 220 during the Han Dynasty of China. It was used for political contact with the many Kingdoms of Central Asia, but later the Silk Road has also become the trading routes between China and West. “ There were no conquests, no wars, no imperialism on the Silk Road, at least as it
This terms comes from the similar trade routes taken by traders from Arabia, India, China, Tanzania in the south, Asia Minor, and Southern Europe.” (“Silk Road” ). It also became known as the Silk Road because Silk was the main product being traded on the route. “Silk was reserved for the exclusive usage of the Chinese imperial court for
Trade in the classical civilization was a significant impact that shaped so much of the coming world. China was a strikingly impactful civilization when it came to trade. China used the Silk Road to trade, it connected China to the Middle East and Europe. China’s way of trade began a way for other civilizations to interact with one another. They traded all the goods that they produced such as medicine, silk, pottery, paper, gunpowder, gold, rugs, and more.
One of the most important areas of Silk Road was Indian Ocean. It was important because of very busy trade between Egypt and India, and also development of maritime trade. Silk Road was also important because it made bound between Asian cultures. Buddhists from India took their religion all the way to the China in 100 year a.c. where it was adopted very good. Many Chinese explorers, diplomats, monks and historians went to neighborhood countries to fortify relations between countries.
