Preliminary Research by Neil Sud

Question 4: Religions transferred-Meera

patel41718 — 2017-10-02 06:12:11 UTC

"The greatest value of the Silk Road was the exchange of culture. Art, religion, philosophy, technology, language, science, architecture, and every other element of civilization was exchanged through the Silk Road along with the commercial goods the merchants carried from country to country."
https://www.ancient.eu/Silk_Road/

"The religious beliefs of people along the Silk Road at the beginning of the 1st century BCE were very different from what they would later become."
http://asiasociety.org/education/belief-systems-along-silk-road

"In the Middle East, many people worshiped the gods and goddesses of the Greco-Roman pagan pantheon. Others were followers of the old religion of Egypt, especially the cult of Isis and Osiris."
http://asiasociety.org/education/belief-systems-along-silk-road

"In India, on side routes of the Silk Road that crossed the passes to the Indus Valley and beyond, the older religion of Brahmanism had given way to Hinduism and Buddhism; the former never spread far beyond India and Southeast Asia, while the latter eventually became worldwide in extent."
http://asiasociety.org/education/belief-systems-along-silk-road

"Traders who used the Silk Road regularly, therefore, built shrines and temples of their own faiths wherever they went, in order to maintain their own beliefs and practices of worship while they were far from home. Missionaries of many faiths accompanied caravans on the Silk Road, consciously trying to expand the reach of their own religious persuasion and make converts to their faith"
http://asiasociety.org/education/belief-systems-along-silk-road

"Together with the economic and political exchange between the East and West, religions of the West were introduced into China via the world-famous route. Buddhism, Zoroastrianism, Manicheism, Nestorianism, and Islam were cultural treasure of the ancient west, which were bestowed upon China during the old times."
https://www.travelchinaguide.com/silk-road/culture.htm

What is the silk road? - Neil

sud42292 — 2017-10-02 06:15:23 UTC

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. 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.
https://www.ancient.eu/Silk_Road/

Question 1: The Importance of the Silk Road for spreading ideas and innovation... from Europe through China - Neil

sud42292 — 2017-10-02 06:21:52 UTC

Good ideas travel easilyand far along trade routes, and the Silk Road was no exception to that rule. A famous example of a Chinese invention that helped to transform the world is paper. Paper was invented during the Han dynasty, probably just at the time the Silk Road trade was beginning to flourish.
http://asiasociety.org/education/silk-road

Question 3: Products of the Silk Road - Ria

goyal48359 — 2017-10-02 06:23:47 UTC

"Ancient China’s greatest inventions: compass, dynamite, paper-making & printing techniques, water well drilling, cast iron technologies, alchemy, sericulture, Chinese medicine (in particular, acupuncture), etc.
http://www.absolutechinatours.com/specialtopic/silkroad/Silk-Road-Cultural-Exchanges-Science-and-Technology.html

"Silk Road provided the vehicle for all sorts of creative exchange between tremendously diverse peoples and cultures."
"The growth of silk as a trade item both stimulated and characterized other types of exchanges during the era. Curative herbs, ideas of astronomy, and even religion also moved along the Silk Road network."
https://festival.si.edu/2002/the-silk-road/the-silk-road-connecting-peoples-and-cultures/smithsonian

Countries in SR - Kohei

sanno48632 — 2017-10-02 06:28:41 UTC

Countries involved in the Silk Road included: China, India, Iran (Islamic Republic of), Japan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russian Federation, Syrian Arab Republic, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan
https://en.unesco.org/silkroad/knowledge-bank/economy-and-trade/great-silk-road

Silk Kohei

sanno48632 — 2017-10-02 06:33:44 UTC

Invented in China at around 2700 BCE. Traveled all the way from China to Europe, since the wealthy were willing to pay extraordinary amounts to obtain the silk.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9ZwXu_bvk-oa0lITjhONmJrZ3M/view

Question 2: Geographical Setting of the Silk Road

sud42292 — 2017-10-02 06:38:33 UTC

Along the way, branch routes led to different destinations from the main route, with one especially important branch leading to northwestern India and thus to other routes throughout the subcontinent. The Silk Road network is generally thought of as stretching from an eastern terminus at the ancient Chinese capital city of Chang’an (now Xi’an) to westward end-points at Byzantium (Constantinople), Antioch, Damascus, and other Middle Easterncities. Beyond these end-points, other trade networks distributed Silk Road goods throughout the Mediterranean world and Europe, and throughout eastern Asia.
http://asiasociety.org/geographical-setting-silk-roads

Geography of the Silk Road - Kohei

sanno48632 — 2017-10-02 06:39:15 UTC

Stretched from Chang'an in China to western end-points and Byzantium, Damascus and other cities. It meandered through Eurasia, and had many alternative routes by land or by sea.
http://asiasociety.org/geographical-setting-silk-roads

Silk Road Path - Neil

sud42292 — 2017-10-02 06:40:41 UTC

Goods Traded

sud42292 — 2017-10-02 07:00:44 UTC