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The Impact of the Silk Roads on Trade, Culture, and Technology

Explore the historic significance of the Silk Roads that began in the Han Empire, facilitating the exchange of luxury goods, ideas, and technologies. Learn how merchants traveled to trade silk, spices, and more while spreading religions like Buddhism and philosophies such as Confucianism. Discover the cultural diffusion that occurred as the Chinese mastered technologies like paper, printing, the compass, and gunpowder. Witness the vibrant life of traders and camel herders at fairs like Pushkar Mela, capturing the essence of a thriving trade route.

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The Impact of the Silk Roads on Trade, Culture, and Technology

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  1. Where is our stuff made?

  2. Cultural Diffusion

  3. Top Ten Most Instantly Recognized Logos Around the World

  4. The Silk Roads Businessmen...Indian camel herders drink their morning tea as they wait to sell or trade their animals at the Pushkar Mela livestock fair in Pushkar, Rajasthan, India.

  5. The Silk Roads Began in the Han Empire The Silk Roads Carried: • Luxury Goods Silk & Textiles, Spices & Foods, Gold, Salt • Ideas Religion & Philosophy, Government Systems, Technology • People Merchants, Slaves • As a result, NEW ideas and technologies will be created

  6. The Silk Roads Connected Empires

  7. The Silk Roads Help Develop China in the Tang and Song Dynasties • The Chinese Become Masters of Technology Paper, Printing, the Compass, and Gunpowder • China Was a Land of Luxury Silkworms were protected by the ruling dynasty, but often smuggled out illegally • Chinese Philosophies Blend Confucianism Buddhism comes with trade Daoism: The Dao, “The Way,” is the universal force guiding all things

  8. Woodcut depicting the preparatory step of cooking bamboo stems in a mixture of water and lime in the traditional papermaking process in China.. Woodcut depicting a woman winding strands of silk from cocoons on a reel in China. The making of silk was extremely labor-intensive; the masses of silkworms, for example, were hand-fed mulberry leaves until they reached maturity, and the task of reeling silk cocoons to obtain thread was only semi-mechanized.

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