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Languages-  by how mobile the silk road was and the populairty for travllers and marketers, the spread of langauges was really active as it connected countriies within southern asia to eruope.

Religions-  bhuddist traders were indirect compettition of musil traders for economic advantages. Musil conquested them in afghanistan.  Islam was a dominant relgigion of the western half of the silk road as Muslim merchants were under the protectoin of local musim leaders.

Countries + Commodities:

5000 mile; network of multiple roads with countries trading based on their geographical features which included being mountainous, deserts, particular climates to grow certain crops etc. The route wasn't a road but more of a track where there were connecting pathways including countries in Asia like India, Afghanistan, China, Japan, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, Thailand etc. to Europe with places like Rome, Hungary, Greece etc. Commodities traded included inventions, idelogies, beliefs, traditions and language. Goods traded included things important to specific countries like jade, arms, food, paper, silk and agricultural materials.

dangers- through the silk road there were struggles that were aquried from Europe like the death plauge diesease ehcih spread through south east asia affecting the locals in a dangerous way. The disagreemenst that occoured becuase of the mongolain's fierce attitude towards the countries in Asia

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Countries Involved and Commodities Traded - Sara

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Countries Involved and Commodities Traded - Sara

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5000 mile; network of multiple roads.
River valleys, desserts: Hungary, Mongolia, Greece, Egypt, India and China. Persia, Anatolia, Tigris River, Aegean Sea, Central Asia, Samarkand. Further East into Asia because of Alexander the Great.
Merchants for tariffs.
Silk, jade, horses and cotton.
Exotic goods in the east
Commercial goods, Chinese goods, gold, glassware, crossbow technology.
traditions, innovations, Ideology and languages
Gunpowder
Buddhism, Islam and new faiths like Sikhism.
Dynsties and magnetic compass.
Riches in East Asia
Expansion to Americas and Africa.
Connecting East Asia to the Mediterranean. Xi'an to Byzantium, Antioch, Damascus and other middle Easter cities as well as Europe through East Asia.
Sea routes including Japan and SouthEast Asia as well as Afghanistan.
Seas included Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Red and Atlantic.
Mountainous regions like Dzungaria or varying climate that can grow crops.
Deserts like Tarim Basin.
Herat, Ferghana Valley, Volga, Don, Byzantium, Herat and Persepolis toward Babylon, Damascus and Tyre.
Rivers and springs.
Dunhuang, Hami or Herat, filled with sweet water and fresh fruit to refresh the traveler and provide respite before the journey’s next stage.
Rolling grassland, steppe being the Russian word for this kind of treeless, grassy plain.
eastern Mongolia west all the way into Romania and Hungary.
Hunting gave way to a lifestyle of living off managed herds, which in turn led gradually to the domestication of cattle, horses, sheep, and goats.
As with any short-grass prairie, some of the Eurasian steppe can be turned to agricultural use with the application of modern methods, including the steel plow and extensive irrigation.
wheatlands of southern Russia and Ukraine are steppe lands put to the plow.
Forest regions
relatively dry climate, where crops, especially grains such as wheat and millet, grow in the fertile soil of broad plains and terraced valleys in China.
heavily eroded hills and valleys of loess soil.
north-central flood plains of the Yellow River.
South China has a monsoonal climate. Its soils, leached by the heavy seasonal rains, require heavy fertilization, and the staple crop is rice. Transportation was often provided by riverboat or canal barge.
The strong geographical and agricultural differences between North China and South China tended to make the country fracture into northern and southern political entities during the periods of disunion.
Mesopotamia and the Tigris and Euphrates River.
India rides on a tectonic plate that has been drifting northward for millions of years. Slamming into Eurasia, India has plowed up the Himalayas and the Tibetan Plateau, isolating South Asia from the rest of Eurasia behind a formidable barrier of mountains.
Between Burma, Bangladesh, and China there are several rivers: Yangtse, Mekong, Irawaddy, Salween, and the Ganges creating valleys and making contact between India and China hard.
Salt to people of the Tibetan Plateau, bringing animal products, turquoise, and other local goods in return.
Spices, pearls, gemstones, cotton cloth, and other goods were added to the traffic of the Silk Road by this route, and Chinese, Persian, and other Silk Road goods flowed back to India in return. Eastern and western coastal cities of India served as intermediaries on sea routes linking East and Southeast Asia, the Middle East, and points beyond, trans-shipping goods in both directions and adding new goods as well.
Europe=peninsula
Wanted spices, gems, textiles, and other luxury goods of lands to the east.
Eventually, the European search for direct access to the riches of India and China led to entirely new maritime routes around Africa and across the Atlantic, and a revolution in the distribution of political and economic power throughout the world.
Mainland Southeast Asia is today's Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Thailand, and Malaysia is known for its fertility and and rice growing valleys and coastal regions and mountain ranges.
Influenced by Indian culture.
Taiwan through Philippines to Indonesia in the 1st Millenium BCE.
Exploration and conversion was traded.
Goods, beliefs, inventions and ideas.
Chinese invention of paper and their Lanzhou noodles as well as silk. Parchments and papyrus too and writing materials. Printmaking and sacred texts.
Eurasia- irrigation waterwheel, pots.
In general- foods like apples from Kazakhstan, oranges from China, grapes to China.

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- starvation and thirst becuase they were travelling across the desserts.
- would take longer - 1/10 of the time
-  there were a-lot of fights or disagreements between the mongols and the Chinese because the mongols were very fierce making china and other countries sacred to defend themselves.
- the black death plague a disease that was a major issue is Europe had travelled through the silk road
- the plague was infested in many rats and clothing that had fur garments and this travelled through the ship hurting the local people of south east Aisa.
- a lot natural disasters in the mountains and high rise areas where there would be thunderstorms or sandstorms
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"As both religions of Buddhism and Islamic religion were able to spread with the silk road, it's languages were able to spread our and expand due to how many people were following those 2 languages. However, by both religions arriving to similar countires, clashes and conflicts began to arise and confusion on which to follow, thus as well using their languages to explain and support which is which and how they want others to follow it as well."
"Lingua Franca @ the time -> Soghdian. Soghdian -> Iranian Language still surviving today in Yaghnob valley in Tajikistan
Islamic times -> Lingua franca became Persian"
"For religion in the region known as Afghanistan -> Qur'anic language condemning 'idol-worshippers' This would provide ldeological support towards musslims contesting with Buddhists for advantages with economy"

Summary:
"By how mobile the silk road was, the spread of languages was really active as it connected countries in South Asia to Europe."

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-diff religious ppl met and it ended in warfare
-religions made their way to diff countries
-cultures changed
-lot of silk roads economy was in the hands of buddhists
-buddhists traders were direct competition of muslim traders for economic advantages
-muslim conquests them in Afghanistan
-Islam was a dominant religion  of the western half of the silk road as muslim merchants were under the protection of local muslim rulers.
-largely silk road was a movement eastward with buddhism, zoroastrainism, judaism and islam spreading east
-non-Chinese traditions such as Buddhism and Islam were in some respects profoundly altered and reshaped to meet Chinese needs.