The Silk Road by Spencer Troise https://padlet.com/troise46476/fq21hflrnm9i en-us 2018-10-17 01:03:52 UTC 2026-01-08 20:50:13 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Watchclock.png Spread of Religion and Philosophy nagpal773367 https://padlet.com/troise46476/fq21hflrnm9i/wish/293653229 The lingua franca, or common language was Soghdian (Iranian language later adopted by the Persians). 

Buddhism spread across the silk road to Afghanistan, but Muslims conquered that area causing Buddhism to die out almost completely. The buddhist traders were important for the economy, making them direct competitors of the muslim traders. 

The activities of the muslim merchants and the Sufi preachers (in the rural areas especially) aided the rise of Islam in the western half of the silk road. 

The movement of travelers from west to east made an influence on eastern civilizations. Buddhism, Zoroastriansim, Judaism, and Islam (later) were religions that spread from east to west. 

No Ruz, also known as the Iranian New Year, is a festival celebrated by many Central Asian Muslims who believe it is an Islamic festival.

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]]> 2018-10-17 01:13:22 UTC https://padlet.com/troise46476/fq21hflrnm9i/wish/293653229 The Fame & Fabled "Silk Road" schlicht47078 https://padlet.com/troise46476/fq21hflrnm9i/wish/293653464 - Nathan Schlicht

The Eurasian Silk Roads was a transmitter of, goods, ideas, beliefs, and inventions.

One of the greatest inventions transported around the Silk Road was paper. The Chinese discovered an invention that changed the world, paper. Paper was invented during the Han dynasty around the 2nd century CE. During the 13th and 14th centuries, a group of Chinese workmen set up a paper-making establishment. Paper quickly spread by trade and imitation. Paper soon became the writing material in most of western Eurasia.

Another invention that was spread across the Silk Road was the noria or irrigation waterwheel. The waterwheel was invented in Roman Syria. The noria could lift 40 feet of water without the help of human or animal. This invention was easily noticed and rapidly spread along the silk road and its tributaries.

The inventions in ancient civilizations that spread across the silk road influenced the today world. Paper now is a product used around the world today to write, draw, even communicate. The waterwheel was an invention the inspired the creations of dams today. The silk road directly helped different ancient civilizations thrive, but also indirectly inspired many modern day inventions today.

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Chinese traded silk, porcelain, lacquer ware, ironware, gold & silver ware

Countries traded new vegetables to  inland China and new cuisine was available to the Chinese

Foods that were traded into China are the walnut, cucumber, allium porrum, pepper, carrots, horse bean, tomato, spinach, grape, potato, papaya, pomegranate, fig, and sesame.]]> 2018-10-17 01:24:20 UTC https://padlet.com/troise46476/fq21hflrnm9i/wish/293655533 Geographical Setting of the Silk Road 24blasian https://padlet.com/troise46476/fq21hflrnm9i/wish/293655599 The Silk Road must be thought of in the broadest possible terms, including sea routes linking Japan and Southeast Asia to the continental trade routes. It stretches all the way across the continent of Asia, letting the Chinese take trade with Europe for desired goods and prosper economically.

The Silk Road had different routes coming from north and south China, and they used land transport to travel from the north and by riverboat in the south.

The Mediterranean is where the  the overland and the maritime trans-Eurasian trade routes met. The Chinese traded silk to them, and sometimes they resold it for a profit.

People in the Middle East had to transport goods by caravan, over the hot deserts to Northern Europe.

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Source:  Suleiman, description of Suleiman’s 851 C.E. travel through India and China, translated into English by Jerry H. Bentley (excerpts), 1922

  • "Young and old Chinese all wear silk..." 
  • Worn in winter and summer, most high quality silk is for the king
  • Silk protects from high humidity

Source: Richard Kurin, Smithsonian Institute, 2002

  • Ancient China guarded the secret of how to produce silk
  • Ottomans and Persians fought a war over it
  • Exported to many places around the world  and became an important part in every culture that found it
  • Keeps warm in winter and cool in summer, more absorbant for color dyes, strong and flexible
  • Made it important part of culture: "kimonos in Japan and wedding saris in India, for religious rituals, for burial shrouds in China and to lay on the graves of Sufis in much of the Muslim world"
  • Chinese farmers paid tax in silk and civil workers recieved a salary in silk

Source: Valerie Hansen, "The Legacy of the Silk Road"

  • "planted their cultures like seeds of exotic spices carried to distant lands"
  • Religion, technologies, art, languages
  • Glass making from China to the Islamic world
  • Paper making also transported towards the west
  • Buddhism spread from India to China
  • Over 35,000 words in the Chinese language came from buddhist terms and everyday Sanskrit words

]]> 2018-10-19 04:42:51 UTC https://padlet.com/troise46476/fq21hflrnm9i/wish/294684739 “Silk Road: Connecting People and Cultures” schlicht47078 https://padlet.com/troise46476/fq21hflrnm9i/wish/294686989 - Nathan Schlicht

- 1877
German gerographer of Central Asia
Baron Von Richtofen
             - Named the silk road
Uncle of the First World War flying ace

-Arrival of silk to the west was a series of accidents

- China guarded silk production
            - Persians fought wars over it
 -Moved along the silk road with ease

- "Every culture that touched silk added it to its adornment of humanity
           - Kimonos in Japan
           - Wedding Saris in India
           - Religious rituals
           - Burial shrouds in China
 - Lay on graves of Sufis in much of Muslim world
           - "Silk a special type of cloth
                - Cool in summer
                - Warm in winter
                - It shimmers, it drapes upon the body particularly well
                - Strong enough to be used for surgical sutures

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