Silk Road Shared Inquiry - Day One by Luis Joaquin Valiao https://padlet.com/valiao31693/inquiry Luis, Cat, Emma, Caden en-us 2017-10-02 04:43:31 UTC 2017-10-08 00:35:53 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Terminator.png Cat's Task https://padlet.com/valiao31693/inquiry/wish/192850478 Fame and Fabled:
  • Way of communication was paper - Chinese invention
    • Invented during Han Dynasty around same time as Silk Road trade began
  • before Chinese used narrow wooden strips or rolls of silk(hard to handle) 
  • Paper soon became main writing material throughout China & South East Asia
  • Chinese tried keeping secret of paper manufacture 
    • Other writing materials : Papyrus and parchment (established in the west)


]]> 2017-10-02 04:47:05 UTC https://padlet.com/valiao31693/inquiry/wish/192850478 Caden's Task kilmartin770250 https://padlet.com/valiao31693/inquiry/wish/192850596 Geographic setting
  • The Silk Road connects East Asia to the Mediterranean
  • The Silk road is considered to go all throughout Eurasia (many different branches)
  • There were many different competing routes which were alternative to the silk road which were used when the conditions on the silk road weren't ideal. The silk road is a very broad term as if all factors are considered it covers most of the Eurasia area.
  • Throughout the course of history, countries boundaries began to from and change. When talking about the silk road, it is difficult to refer to modern day countries as some didn't exist back then and some didn't share the same boundaries as they do today
  • The term Eurasia is often used to refer to the geographic setting of the Silk Road, because it is easy to understand the boundaries of it due to the physicality's of them
    • Oceans, Seas, etc.
  • The peninsula (includes modern day Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Thailand, mainland Malaysia) had fertile land that was ideal for rice growing
  • Narrow Strait of Malacca (between modern day Malay Peninsula and the Sumatra island) was a route which was ideal for sea travel as it was easy to navigate
Source of Information: http://asiasociety.org/geographical-setting-silk-roads?page=0,5

]]> 2017-10-02 04:48:40 UTC https://padlet.com/valiao31693/inquiry/wish/192850596 Emma's Task (Religion) https://padlet.com/valiao31693/inquiry/wish/192850663 Buddhism:
- Alot of interest in Buddhism in Central Asia
- Afghanistan was mainly Buddhist in the 7th century
- Alot of the Silk road was controlled by Buddhist traders
-  First religion on the Silk Road
- Buddhism had spread into Afghanistan and Pakistan by the 1st century BCE
- Buddhist merchants built temples and shrines along the Silk Road the priests and monks preached to local populations and passing travellers which helped spread the religion rapidly

Daoism:
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  • Compass
  • Dynamite
  • Paper-making
    • Long strands to make strong, translucent sheets of paper
  • Printing techniques
  • Water well drilling
  • Cast iron technologies
  • Alchemy
  • Sericulture
  • Chinese medicine
    • Acupuncture
  • etc.
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