HARSHA ADHITYA ADVAY by Enriko Bean Datu https://padlet.com/datu34627/6036elvi6jdz Made with a wink and a smile en-us 2018-10-16 00:22:47 UTC 2018-11-07 05:14:43 UTC hello@padlet.com Importance of the Silk Road datu34627 https://padlet.com/datu34627/6036elvi6jdz/wish/293110517 2018-10-16 00:29:39 UTC https://padlet.com/datu34627/6036elvi6jdz/wish/293110517 Geography of the Silk Road datu34627 https://padlet.com/datu34627/6036elvi6jdz/wish/293110526 2018-10-16 00:29:41 UTC https://padlet.com/datu34627/6036elvi6jdz/wish/293110526 Spread of Religion & Philosophy kim30541 https://padlet.com/datu34627/6036elvi6jdz/wish/293110631

]]> 2018-10-16 00:30:11 UTC https://padlet.com/datu34627/6036elvi6jdz/wish/293110631 The Products of the "Silk Road" kim30541 https://padlet.com/datu34627/6036elvi6jdz/wish/293111235 2018-10-16 00:33:39 UTC https://padlet.com/datu34627/6036elvi6jdz/wish/293111235 China used to rule the world for a while because of their technology's influence on other cultures kim30541 https://padlet.com/datu34627/6036elvi6jdz/wish/293111451 a. Compass, dynamite, paper making, printing techniques, water well drilling, cast iron technologies, alchemy, sericulture, Chinese medicine are some examples]]> 2018-10-16 00:34:57 UTC https://padlet.com/datu34627/6036elvi6jdz/wish/293111451 datu34627 https://padlet.com/datu34627/6036elvi6jdz/wish/293111794 The Silk Road was a network of connecting roads and trading outposts; it was not just one, single, intercontinental road. An example of a branching route from the main road was the pathway into the India subcontinent; where it opened up many other opportunities and a whole new geography for traders along the subcontinent.]]> 2018-10-16 00:36:42 UTC https://padlet.com/datu34627/6036elvi6jdz/wish/293111794 datu34627 https://padlet.com/datu34627/6036elvi6jdz/wish/293111804 The Silk Road is generally thought of as an "eastern terminus," connecting China and other eastern nations to the Byzantine Empire (Constantinople) and Middle Eastern cities. "Beyond these endpoints," trade routes extended to the Mediterranean Sea, Europe and eastern Asia.

"When thinking about the Silk Road, one must consider the whole of Eurasia as its geographical context."]]> 2018-10-16 00:36:45 UTC https://padlet.com/datu34627/6036elvi6jdz/wish/293111804 datu34627 https://padlet.com/datu34627/6036elvi6jdz/wish/293111814 2018-10-16 00:36:46 UTC https://padlet.com/datu34627/6036elvi6jdz/wish/293111814 The Concept of Asia datu34627 https://padlet.com/datu34627/6036elvi6jdz/wish/293111819 2018-10-16 00:36:47 UTC https://padlet.com/datu34627/6036elvi6jdz/wish/293111819 datu34627 https://padlet.com/datu34627/6036elvi6jdz/wish/293111824 Asia can be thought of as a collection of smaller subcontinents, which occupy Eurasia's major geography.

"Over the course of history, these regions have interacted with each other through trade, religion, and other factors, while a wide range of cultural differences and formidable geographical boundaries have also separated them."

Separating "Europe" and Asia" from Eurasia makes it possible to see where the geographical and cultural regions are separated, as well as the trade routes that linked them together.]]> 2018-10-16 00:36:48 UTC https://padlet.com/datu34627/6036elvi6jdz/wish/293111824 Eurasian Subregions datu34627 https://padlet.com/datu34627/6036elvi6jdz/wish/293111834 2018-10-16 00:36:50 UTC https://padlet.com/datu34627/6036elvi6jdz/wish/293111834 1. The Intermontaine Desert and Oasis Belt datu34627 https://padlet.com/datu34627/6036elvi6jdz/wish/293111841
  • "The main zone" of the Silk Road, it is a broad area of oasis-dotted deserts
  • Extends across Central Asia to northwestern China, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the Middle East
  • High, dry terrain
  • Infrequent and sporadical water supplies
  • Scarcity and absence resources and forage for caravan animals
  • "Other difficulties this zone poses is only passable to highly skilled Silk Road caravaneers."
  • Held the most clearly defined segment of the Silk Road - leading northwest from Chang'an through the Gnasu Corridor.
  • Segment passed through Lanzhou, Wuxi, Dunhuang, Yumen, and the deserts and oases of Central Asia. This formed a narrow corridor for all trading passing through the Silk Road for China.
  • Beyond this segment, it opens up a number of branching routes and alternative trails
  • Alternative routes can pass by Hami, Turfan and Urumqi, the Tian (Heavenly) Mountains through Dzungaria, and Fergahan Valley's  Kokand and Tashkent.
  • Terrain of the Silk Road was difficult, routes were numerous and complex. Dangers also posed serious, deadly obstacles.
  • Journey was only possible because of the substantial oases across Central Asia
    • ]]>     2018-10-16 00:36:51 UTC https://padlet.com/datu34627/6036elvi6jdz/wish/293111841     Borrowing of aspects of religion polavaram46362 https://padlet.com/datu34627/6036elvi6jdz/wish/293112097 a.
    Many in the middle east worshiped the gods and godesses of the greco-roman pagan pantheon

    b. The Persians (Zoroastrians) used light to show the struggle between good and evil, an idea that was likely borrowed by Brahmins in ancient India.


    ]]>     2018-10-16 00:38:10 UTC https://padlet.com/datu34627/6036elvi6jdz/wish/293112097     Western civilisations were especially affected. kim30541 https://padlet.com/datu34627/6036elvi6jdz/wish/293112162 a. Paper making and printing techniques spread knowledge
    b. Compasses made ocean navigation easier
    c. Dynamite was used a lot in Europe in wars eventually leading to more knowledge on chemistry]]>     2018-10-16 00:38:31 UTC https://padlet.com/datu34627/6036elvi6jdz/wish/293112162     Paper chowdhary44418 https://padlet.com/datu34627/6036elvi6jdz/wish/293112249 One of the most important ideas/commodities spread along the silk road was paper, which originated in China during the Han Dynasty, just around when the Silk Road was starting off. However, it didn't spread particularly far (it did spread through East Asia however), primarily because the Chinese, who invented the technology, tried to prevent others from taking their idea. They tried to conceal that they had manufactured paper. However, when the mongols took control of China, the idea spread along the silk road.]]> 2018-10-16 00:39:01 UTC https://padlet.com/datu34627/6036elvi6jdz/wish/293112249 Buddhism polavaram46362 https://padlet.com/datu34627/6036elvi6jdz/wish/293112528 a. Buddhism was created in NE India, and spread to Pakistan and Afghanistan by 100 BCE. Buddhist merchants built shrines everywhere they went in the silk road. Due to these shrines, chinese people were soon exposed to buddhism. This lead a few Chinese monks(namely faxian) to travel to India to copy scriptures, leading to the buddhazisation of China.
    It also interacted with daosim, and hinduism, and he is now worshipped by three religions


    ]]>     2018-10-16 00:40:38 UTC https://padlet.com/datu34627/6036elvi6jdz/wish/293112528     China drew knowledge from the rest of the world as well kim30541 https://padlet.com/datu34627/6036elvi6jdz/wish/293112982 a. Emperor Gaozong and Jian Zhen, a monk, received treatment from doctors from India because ophthalmology was advanced there
    b. Ming and Qing Dynasties imported cannons from the Portuguese and attempted to replicate it
    c. The Jesuit Missionaries helped introduce western knowledge to the Chinese such as astronomy, mathematics, and mechanics
    d.  Jean Adam Shall von Bell made many things for the Ming & Qing empires {sundial (made of tusk), compass, planetarium projector, piano, steel cannon}]]>     2018-10-16 00:42:56 UTC https://padlet.com/datu34627/6036elvi6jdz/wish/293112982     Stimulus (idea spread/collective learning): Printing chowdhary44418 https://padlet.com/datu34627/6036elvi6jdz/wish/293113582 Printing, an innovation whose invention was stimulated by the creation of paper, originated in similar countries in East Asia. The spread of paper through the silk road led to the spread of more innovations, and thus the creation of more ideas, which led to more innovations, such as printing. Printing itself was later spread through the silk road. This goes to show how important the silk road was. It didn't just spread commodities, but it also spread ideas, which created more commodities. It is the prime example of collective learning.]]> 2018-10-16 00:45:49 UTC https://padlet.com/datu34627/6036elvi6jdz/wish/293113582 Europe surpassed China in the fields of natural science and engineering kim30541 https://padlet.com/datu34627/6036elvi6jdz/wish/293114327 silk-reeling machines, matches, cement, electricity, leather, rubber, tobacco, refinery spread to China through the Maritime Silk Road, planting a new chapter of Chinese modern history.]]> 2018-10-16 00:50:00 UTC https://padlet.com/datu34627/6036elvi6jdz/wish/293114327 2. The Trans-Eurasian Steppe Belt datu34627 https://padlet.com/datu34627/6036elvi6jdz/wish/293114445
  • A zone of rolling grassland: a treeless, grassy plain
  • Extends from Eastern Mongolia to the very distant Romania and Hungary
  • Inhabitants included hunter-gatherers who lived off of big game in the prehistoric times
  • Gradually domesticated cattle, horses, sheeps and goats
  • Hunters became herdsmen, they adopted a "pastoral, nomadic" lifestyle
  • Using horses and ox-powered vehicles, the steppe became a highway facilitating the diaspora of populations, languages and culture across Eurasia before the Silk Road
    • ]]>     2018-10-16 00:50:35 UTC https://padlet.com/datu34627/6036elvi6jdz/wish/293114445     Supporting Question 3 datu34627 https://padlet.com/datu34627/6036elvi6jdz/wish/293114533 Source C: Valerie Hansen, description of the legacy of the Silk Road, "The Legacy of the Silk Road" (excerpt), Yale Global Online, 2013]]> 2018-10-16 00:51:02 UTC https://padlet.com/datu34627/6036elvi6jdz/wish/293114533 datu34627 https://padlet.com/datu34627/6036elvi6jdz/wish/293114586
  • Talks about the "revival" of the Silk Road and trade among Central Asia, despite these routes in the actual Silk Road being the least traveled
  • "The Silk Road found a place in history because of its rich cultural legacy in written records and artifacts, and because trade and tolerance were so intertwined."
  • Trade was not the principal purpose of the Silk Road - more a network of pathways instead of a road - in its beginnings.
  • "Travelers along the Silk Road planted their cultures like seeds of exotic species carried to distant lands"
  • The term "Silk Road" is used to refer to the exchanges between China and the east, to places farther in the west (India, Iran, rarely Europe)
  • Silk Road legacy can still be seen in countries like Khotan and Kashgar in Xinjiang, China
  • Silk Road trade was often local and "small in scale"
  • An important facet of the Silk Road's legacy was its toleration and acceptance of different types of faiths, religions and ethnicities
    • ]]>     2018-10-16 00:51:17 UTC https://padlet.com/datu34627/6036elvi6jdz/wish/293114586     Support Question 4 datu34627 https://padlet.com/datu34627/6036elvi6jdz/wish/293114607 Source A: Warwick Ball, historian's essay on the Silk Road, "Following the Mythical Road" (excerpts), Geographical (Campion Interactive Publishing), 1998]]> 2018-10-16 00:51:24 UTC https://padlet.com/datu34627/6036elvi6jdz/wish/293114607 datu34627 https://padlet.com/datu34627/6036elvi6jdz/wish/293114632 9. Mainland Southeast Asia]]> 2018-10-16 00:51:32 UTC https://padlet.com/datu34627/6036elvi6jdz/wish/293114632 datu34627 https://padlet.com/datu34627/6036elvi6jdz/wish/293114652 10. Island Southeast Asia]]> 2018-10-16 00:51:41 UTC https://padlet.com/datu34627/6036elvi6jdz/wish/293114652 Science and Technology kim30541 https://padlet.com/datu34627/6036elvi6jdz/wish/293115267 2018-10-16 00:55:16 UTC https://padlet.com/datu34627/6036elvi6jdz/wish/293115267 Handicraft kim30541 https://padlet.com/datu34627/6036elvi6jdz/wish/293116812 2018-10-16 00:56:06 UTC https://padlet.com/datu34627/6036elvi6jdz/wish/293116812 Irrigation Waterwheel chowdhary44418 https://padlet.com/datu34627/6036elvi6jdz/wish/293116908 Another significant innovation that spread through many countries due to the silk road was the irrigation waterwheel. Initially developed in Roman Syria, it rapidly spread to many countries, even those that were extremely distant. This was an extremely beneficial invention, as it greatly aided nations and civilisations with farming.]]> 2018-10-16 00:56:12 UTC https://padlet.com/datu34627/6036elvi6jdz/wish/293116908 On the silk road, a lot of handicrafts were exchanged kim30541 https://padlet.com/datu34627/6036elvi6jdz/wish/293116941 a. Silk, porcelain, lacquer ware, ironware, gold & silver ware were China's biggest exports
    b. European aristocratic men wore silk to be more fashionable
    c. The Koran thought that silk came from paradise
    d. Porcelain was a major commodity for the West
    e. Wealth and education was determined by the number of chinaware one had in his home for Mexican noblemen
    f. French King Louis XIV, lover of Oriental arts, had his court rooms full of Chinese furniture, chinaware, vases, and lacquer ware. ]]>     2018-10-16 00:56:20 UTC https://padlet.com/datu34627/6036elvi6jdz/wish/293116941     Christianity polavaram46362 https://padlet.com/datu34627/6036elvi6jdz/wish/293117384 Christianity was disliked in Rome, but spread quickly through the silk roads
    Promised salvation and promoted equality
    Gregory the Wonder Worker (Missionary) who performed miracles and popularized Christianity in Central Antonia
    Christianity spread as far as Mesopotamia and Iran
    After 5th century, communities in South West Asia and Mediterranean Basin went separate ways and became Nestorian
    Some Christians lived as hermits and withdrew from society

    ]]>     2018-10-16 00:58:30 UTC https://padlet.com/datu34627/6036elvi6jdz/wish/293117384     Silk Road gave China a wider range of handicrafts. kim30541 https://padlet.com/datu34627/6036elvi6jdz/wish/293118860 a. Emperor Lingdi addicted to clothes, tent, bed, stools, konghou, flute, dancing]]> 2018-10-16 01:05:56 UTC https://padlet.com/datu34627/6036elvi6jdz/wish/293118860 Why was silk so important? polavaram46362 https://padlet.com/datu34627/6036elvi6jdz/wish/294183961 Source:: Richard Kurin, description of the role, value, and uses of silk, “Silk Road: Connecting
    People and Cultures” (excerpts), Smithsonian Institute, 2002.

    Silk was used for sail boats, bandana

     
    keeps one cool in the summer and warm in the winter 

    used for music
    ]]>     2018-10-18 04:40:57 UTC https://padlet.com/datu34627/6036elvi6jdz/wish/294183961     Eurasian Silk Roads spread people, goods, ideas, beliefs and inventions. kim30541 https://padlet.com/datu34627/6036elvi6jdz/wish/294185282 a. Paper, created in China, became the writing material throughout China and East Asia.
    b. Throughout Eurasia, there was the spread the noria (irrigation waterwheel) which was invented in Roman Syria.

    ]]>     2018-10-18 04:52:30 UTC https://padlet.com/datu34627/6036elvi6jdz/wish/294185282     "The Great Silk Road" chowdhary44418 https://padlet.com/datu34627/6036elvi6jdz/wish/294186053 Many great nations and civilisations in the past used the silk road to give away the things they had an excess of and in return gain things they lacked. Examples of commodities traded along the silk road include ivory, fur, and coins. It also spread important ideas, however. For example, it is likely that the spread and creation of ideas along the silk road (collective learning) gave birth to the timurid style of ceramics. Many other inventions and ideas were also spread.]]> 2018-10-18 04:59:39 UTC https://padlet.com/datu34627/6036elvi6jdz/wish/294186053 Long-distance trade can also have bad side effects kim30541 https://padlet.com/datu34627/6036elvi6jdz/wish/294186106 a. The Black Death plague, devastating Europe in the 14th century, is believed to have come from the Silk Road from Central Asia because the plague is endemic among local rodents. ]]> 2018-10-18 05:00:08 UTC https://padlet.com/datu34627/6036elvi6jdz/wish/294186106 What else could this trade network be called? polavaram46362 https://padlet.com/datu34627/6036elvi6jdz/wish/294186147
    The greatest value of the Silk Road to geography is as a lesson-- and a very important one at that-- in how quickly and how thoroughly a myth can become enshrined as unquestioned fact.

    The arrival of silk in the West was more a result of a series of accidents rather than organised trade. When it did come, it was via India and the sea routes-- and certainly not overland. Both ancient Rome and China had only the haziest notions of each other's existence and, more importantly, even less interest.]]>     2018-10-18 05:00:33 UTC https://padlet.com/datu34627/6036elvi6jdz/wish/294186147     The Silk Road found a place in history kim30541 https://padlet.com/datu34627/6036elvi6jdz/wish/294186611 -  The Silk Road's main purpose wasn't trade
    - Instead, the Silk Road changed history because of the cultures that were implemented in different cultures]]>     2018-10-18 05:04:16 UTC https://padlet.com/datu34627/6036elvi6jdz/wish/294186611     Cultures allowed many things kim30541 https://padlet.com/datu34627/6036elvi6jdz/wish/294187672 - Khotan and Kashgar are famous because of this  for their Sunday markets
    - A realignment to religon in the Buddhist Kingdom happened after the Islamic conquest in 1006]]>     2018-10-18 05:13:12 UTC https://padlet.com/datu34627/6036elvi6jdz/wish/294187672