https://padlet.com/verma48432/aq6ofyqe7bb Made with the strength to succeed en-us 2018-10-29 01:22:59 UTC 2026-01-07 16:40:26 UTC hello@padlet.com verma48432 https://padlet.com/verma48432/aq6ofyqe7bb/wish/297842496 "Religions of the Silk Road"]]> 2018-10-29 01:25:42 UTC https://padlet.com/verma48432/aq6ofyqe7bb/wish/297842496 murgatroyd44678 https://padlet.com/verma48432/aq6ofyqe7bb/wish/297842505 "Silk Road Spreading Ideas and Innovations"]]> 2018-10-29 01:25:44 UTC https://padlet.com/verma48432/aq6ofyqe7bb/wish/297842505 murgatroyd44678 https://padlet.com/verma48432/aq6ofyqe7bb/wish/297843662 -Silk road responsible for great transportation of people, ideas, beliefs, innovations etc.]]> 2018-10-29 01:32:13 UTC https://padlet.com/verma48432/aq6ofyqe7bb/wish/297843662 murgatroyd44678 https://padlet.com/verma48432/aq6ofyqe7bb/wish/297844157 -Paper, invented in Han Dynasty, allowed for infinitely more advanced writing surface that was kept within the walls of China for long time
-When paper-making establishment was set up in Samarkhand, however, it travelled down the silk road and influenced other parts of world too
-Development caused for invention of printing which largely impacted Buddhist religion, and influenced British printing]]> 2018-10-29 01:35:29 UTC https://padlet.com/verma48432/aq6ofyqe7bb/wish/297844157 verma48432 https://padlet.com/verma48432/aq6ofyqe7bb/wish/297844234 -The term Silk Road was created by, Ferdinand von Richtofen, a german explorer of the late 19th century.
-a loose network of pre-modern overland trade routes
-stretched from the Mediterranean to East Asia during the Roman-Han and Mongol periods]]> 2018-10-29 01:35:56 UTC https://padlet.com/verma48432/aq6ofyqe7bb/wish/297844234 pollack41261 https://padlet.com/verma48432/aq6ofyqe7bb/wish/297844772 The Product of The "Silk Road"]]> 2018-10-29 01:39:15 UTC https://padlet.com/verma48432/aq6ofyqe7bb/wish/297844772 pollack41261 https://padlet.com/verma48432/aq6ofyqe7bb/wish/297844991 <sub>Chinese were the pioneers of contributions in the areas of science and technology, influencing other cultures along the silk road.

Ancient China have greatest inventions and techniques:
- compass
-dynamite
- paper making & printing
-water well drilling
-cast iron
- Chinese medicine
Many of these exported inventions impacted Western Civilization.
- Dynamite were used in Europe in wars, triggering a revolution in weapons and warfare and giving the European powers an edge over the Orient</sub>. 

]]> 2018-10-29 01:40:24 UTC https://padlet.com/verma48432/aq6ofyqe7bb/wish/297844991 verma48432 https://padlet.com/verma48432/aq6ofyqe7bb/wish/297845051 - main lingua franca was Soghdian 
- an Iranian language thatsurvives today in the Yaghnob valley of Tajikistan
 - In Islamic times the lingua franca became Persian.]]> 2018-10-29 01:40:48 UTC https://padlet.com/verma48432/aq6ofyqe7bb/wish/297845051 pollack41261 https://padlet.com/verma48432/aq6ofyqe7bb/wish/297845066 <sub>Handicrafts were exchanged on the silk road. China's well known products were: 
- Silk
- Porcelain (Ceramic material; pots)
- lacquer ware 
- gold and silver: luxuries 

By 4th century AD, it had become fashionable for European aristocratic (high society) man to wear clothes made of silk.
- The Arabic canon The Koran acclaimed silk as the dress material of the paradise.

Many of the famous Kings and noble men had a passion over the oriental arts. Furniture, vases, and china ware from China was found in court rooms and high society places.
- Lifestyle of the Han people was influenced by these imports via the Silk Road.
           - The Chinese started sitting on stools or chairs, as compared against formerly kneeling on their own heels on the ground.</sub>


]]> 2018-10-29 01:40:51 UTC https://padlet.com/verma48432/aq6ofyqe7bb/wish/297845066 pollack41261 https://padlet.com/verma48432/aq6ofyqe7bb/wish/297845122 <sub>Before China's foods were very limited, although, thanks to the silk road, , new vegetables were transplanted in inland China and became available to the Chinese.

Many of the Chinese plants contains the character “胡 hu”. When at first these exotic plants were introduced to China from western regions, "Hu" was the name given by the ethic peoples of the north and west of central china.

China's tea was contributed to the worlds food culture. China and the dutch of east India influenced the Europeans and made tea available to the Europeans in 1610, that why now days, Europe is the most important market for tea.

In China, spice was used widely in medicines, cosmetic, scents, etc.  Emperor Wudi of Han Dynasty was so addicted to spice that he ordered his ministers to hold a piece of spice when reporting to him at the daily morning meeting. Main sources of spice in the world are the Middle East, India, and east Africa. And the ancient Chinese did not develop the habit of burning incense until the Silk Road made spice available. 
The maritime foreign trade of ancient China also had important impact on Chinese medicines. The quantity of medicines imported from overseas increased greatly ever since Tang Dynasty, which are used nowadays as well.</sub> ]]> 2018-10-29 01:41:14 UTC https://padlet.com/verma48432/aq6ofyqe7bb/wish/297845122 verma48432 https://padlet.com/verma48432/aq6ofyqe7bb/wish/297845577 -Afghanistan mainly Buddhist before the Muslim conquests in the 7th century CE
- Silk Road economy was mainly in the hands of Buddhist traders and the monasteries
- After the Mongol period, the buddhists diminished.]]> 2018-10-29 01:43:51 UTC https://padlet.com/verma48432/aq6ofyqe7bb/wish/297845577 verma48432 https://padlet.com/verma48432/aq6ofyqe7bb/wish/297846507 - spread due to the activities of Muslim merchants operating under the protection and favoritism of local Muslim rulers.
-missionary activity of Sufi preachers, who often competed successfully for the authority held by traditional shamans.]]> 2018-10-29 01:49:21 UTC https://padlet.com/verma48432/aq6ofyqe7bb/wish/297846507 murgatroyd44678 https://padlet.com/verma48432/aq6ofyqe7bb/wish/297846543 -Invented in Roman Syria
-Ingenious, because allowed for great workload with no outside human/animal effort
-This invention spread rapidly along the silk road as well, examples in Spain and Yellow River, China]]> 2018-10-29 01:49:35 UTC https://padlet.com/verma48432/aq6ofyqe7bb/wish/297846543 verma48432 https://padlet.com/verma48432/aq6ofyqe7bb/wish/297846971 -There are still archeological remains of Nestorianism and Manichaeism . 
-A few years ago,  a Manichaean shrine was found in southeastern coastal China]]> 2018-10-29 01:52:17 UTC https://padlet.com/verma48432/aq6ofyqe7bb/wish/297846971 pollack41261 https://padlet.com/verma48432/aq6ofyqe7bb/wish/297847103 Questions: Chinese goods had an huge impact towards a lot of countries, although, was their ever where it brought a negative impact to a country?

Since silk was sort of like "gold" to other countries, were their any time when a different country tried to steal the silk worms from the Chinese?

Connection: 
This connection to the real world trading between China and other countries. If you notice, majority of the products imported from the US and most countries around the world, it all says "made in china". This is an example of how a lot of Chinese products were introduced to other counties. For instance, the Great Britain is known for their tea because of the Chinese during the silk road times. 

Insight: 
All the positive things that occurred in the silk road started all because of China. China were the pioneers of contributing and influencing with their science, technology, and handicrafts, such as silk, furniture. ]]> 2018-10-29 01:53:05 UTC https://padlet.com/verma48432/aq6ofyqe7bb/wish/297847103 murgatroyd44678 https://padlet.com/verma48432/aq6ofyqe7bb/wish/297847229 We should most definitely not call this accumulation of trade units the "Silk Road". This name doesn't fit the description for what the trade systems were actually for. Although silk was one of the items being traded on the silk roads,, it certainly want the only thing. Not only did the silk road transport a wide variety of items beside silk, it also spread religion across the world as well as negative things such as fatal diseases. In the early days of the silk roads, religion was one of the biggest things being spread. Some of the most prominent religions were Buddhism and Islam. Most of the merchants who traded on the silk roads were buddhist and muslim and their religion and cultures traveled with them. When the amount of these merchants decreased, the religion diminished. The silk roads also carried diseases. Products got contaminated when they exchanged hands country to country, the diseases went with them. Since varieties of things were being transported across the silk roads instead of just silk, the silk roads shouldn't actually be referred to as the "silk roads"]]> 2018-10-29 01:53:49 UTC https://padlet.com/verma48432/aq6ofyqe7bb/wish/297847229 murgatroyd44678 https://padlet.com/verma48432/aq6ofyqe7bb/wish/297847473 -Loads of different foodstuffs spread as well
-Apples via steppe belt to Kazakstan
-Oranges from China to Mediterranean world]]> 2018-10-29 01:55:02 UTC https://padlet.com/verma48432/aq6ofyqe7bb/wish/297847473 murgatroyd44678 https://padlet.com/verma48432/aq6ofyqe7bb/wish/297848161 The Silk Road was the embodiment of globalization and brought along with it the great spread of multiple aspects of society including culture, religion, and innovation.  Some key spreading concepts included the inventions of paper and the waterwheel, spreading for their ingenuity and developing their own unique twists in the countries they were brought to.  Even food travelled along the silk road, causing for the great diversity, as well as importation that we now see translated in today's food market.  Without the initial spread of foods that only grew in a specific country no one would have the knowledge of that food except for the people in it's country of origin, and nowadays no other countries would have innovated to create the land able to cultivate or produce that food. However, what came with all of this was also the spread of disease, most notably the black death, which was thought to have travelled down the silk road too. Now, we see this as one of the worst plagues to ever hit the Earth, but think about this, would we have ever gained our immunities/awareness to disease without epidemics like these? If we look at it that way then in a cruel sense you could see the plague as a positive form of globalization to come out of the Silk road, couldn't you?  All in all, the Silk Road served a purpose that truly impacted the world today in ways that never would have been without the connection of human intellect.  The spread of ideas is something that is still at large today, however, the Silk Road, very much a place holder in the time of globalization, is an era that really sparked advanced human teamwork for the first time, and still resonates it's additions to the world today. ]]> 2018-10-29 01:58:26 UTC https://padlet.com/verma48432/aq6ofyqe7bb/wish/297848161 murgatroyd44678 https://padlet.com/verma48432/aq6ofyqe7bb/wish/297848196 Most definitely not.  In calling it the Silk Road, though silk was one key element that travelled along it and gained commerce for many, you disregard the rest of the unbelievable spectrum of things that travelled down what you could call a sort of figurative path of early globalization.  Take religion for example.  The very reason that there is such great diversity of religion throughout the world today is because of beginnings in the Silk Road, where Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam etc. were all traded and came to be in various countries through the arrival of foreign travellers and even items.  Another was innovation.  The very idea of things like paper, or the water wheel, inventions that allowed for easier work and smarter advancement, would never have left their origins without the Silk Road.  It is these things, as well as many more, that show the great variety of elements that were brought to light in new places due to the silk road.  Arguably one of the very origins of advanced globalization, the silk road unlocked a more sophisticated way of human communication that would forever impact the flow of collective learning and the trading of ideas, ideals, and information... not just silk. ]]> 2018-10-29 01:58:38 UTC https://padlet.com/verma48432/aq6ofyqe7bb/wish/297848196 murgatroyd44678 https://padlet.com/verma48432/aq6ofyqe7bb/wish/297898009 -Black death seemed to have originated from Silk Road through rodents
-Also theory that flea eggs held disease and went from Central Asia to Middle East infecting other rats and spreading disaster ]]> 2018-10-29 07:52:15 UTC https://padlet.com/verma48432/aq6ofyqe7bb/wish/297898009 verma48432 https://padlet.com/verma48432/aq6ofyqe7bb/wish/298361525 - movement seems largely to have been that of Westerners towards the East
- bringing back foreign influences to China, and not the reverse
- Buddhism and Islam were in some respects profoundly altered and reshaped to meet Chinese needs]]> 2018-10-30 06:26:36 UTC https://padlet.com/verma48432/aq6ofyqe7bb/wish/298361525 verma48432 https://padlet.com/verma48432/aq6ofyqe7bb/wish/298361785 -First of all, the Chinese seem to have acquired technologies such as wheeled transportation, forms of metallurgy, and so on from Western traders. 
-Conversely, such technologies as paper production and gunpowder were transmitted later from China to the West. ]]> 2018-10-30 06:29:10 UTC https://padlet.com/verma48432/aq6ofyqe7bb/wish/298361785 verma48432 https://padlet.com/verma48432/aq6ofyqe7bb/wish/298362904 The Silk Road was the beginning of the trade system of the world. Not only was silk transported on the silk roads, but a wide variety of other such as aspects like religion, culture and even diseases were also passed amongst civilizations. One of the things that the silk road transported, which is also the basis of this article is religion. Buddhism spread along the silk road as the main traders of were Buddhist. Whenever they traded, their religion went with them. The differences in culture could be seen through the  on how people interacted with each other. After the mongol period, the amount of buddhist traders decreased therefore buddhism on the silk road diminished. Not only Buddhism, but Islam was also one of the main religions of the Silk Road. Muslim people under the supervision of their leaders were the main people to spread Buddhism on the silk road. When they traded, their religion went with them, the same thing which happened with the buddhist. Even Nestorianism and Manichaeism was on the Silk Road. There are still archeological remains today, including a shrine which is still operational in China. When the Chinese acquired the power of the silk road, the developed many technologies leading to trade or more items and goods.

QCI
Questions:
- Besides the positive things, such as resourses, were negative things, such as diseases, also spread along the Silk Road?
- Besides the Silk road, were there any other secret trade routes which people were unaware about?

Connections:
This connects to the current trade system of the word. Everything originated from the Silk Road. Today there are millions of trade systems, and many things are traded among those routes. If these trade systems never existed, the worlds trade systems wouldn't have been a thing today.

Insights:
Without the trade units, the world wouldnt have been able to operate. Without this new technologies and developments, this world could have very easily fallen.

]]> 2018-10-30 06:37:28 UTC https://padlet.com/verma48432/aq6ofyqe7bb/wish/298362904 verma48432 https://padlet.com/verma48432/aq6ofyqe7bb/wish/298568461 2018-10-30 15:28:21 UTC https://padlet.com/verma48432/aq6ofyqe7bb/wish/298568461 pollack41261 https://padlet.com/verma48432/aq6ofyqe7bb/wish/298789582 We should definitely not call it the silk road. The name "silk road" doesn't fit all the elements of what happened during the silk road, especially the transportation elements. The routes to the different world zones were called the "silk road" because the routes started from China and they were known for their silk. Although it shouldn't be called a silk road because the transportation or trading from China. Although, later people started trading ideas, goods, materials, and technologies around the world, but mainly in Eurasia. More and more countries started getting involved through the routes and expanded towards the Afro-Eurasia, creating different types of routes across the world zones. Some routes were on land and some were on water. Many civilizations from different zones used domesticated animals to travel across these routes, walk, and even with boats. The silk road impacted the collective learning across many diverse people from different zones, with different ways of transportation and traded many different goods, not just silk from China. Therefore, the silk road should not actually be called the "silk road". ]]> 2018-10-30 23:54:15 UTC https://padlet.com/verma48432/aq6ofyqe7bb/wish/298789582