https://padlet.com/ritter48387/le0i7rr3xwsj en-us 2018-10-30 06:25:21 UTC 2025-11-09 00:47:35 UTC hello@padlet.com gupta35663 https://padlet.com/ritter48387/le0i7rr3xwsj/wish/298361944
Ideas, Inventions, and Techniques all travel along the silk road. The silk road helped the people trade/exchange goods and also help attach groups together by connecting the world by creating a travel route from all across Eurasia. There are dozens of examples, like paper, Pots, Wheels, Food supply. But not only was the silk road helpful, but it killed many individuals because the Black Death plague came from the silk road from Asia.]]> 2018-10-30 06:30:29 UTC https://padlet.com/ritter48387/le0i7rr3xwsj/wish/298361944 ritter48387 https://padlet.com/ritter48387/le0i7rr3xwsj/wish/298362051 An interview with author Richard C. Foltz, an expert on religious traditions along the Silk Road. A German explorer, Ferdinand von Richtofen referred to the loose network of pre-modern overland trade route as the 'Silk Road'. Much of the Silk Road economy was in the hands of Buddhist traders and the monasteries they supported along the way, so they were the direct competitors of Muslim traders from the 7th century onwards. The Chinese seem to have acquired technologies such as wheeled transportation and forms of metallurgy, from Western traders. Technologies as paper production and gunpowder were transmitted later from China to the West. ]]> 2018-10-30 06:31:15 UTC https://padlet.com/ritter48387/le0i7rr3xwsj/wish/298362051 strecker45569 https://padlet.com/ritter48387/le0i7rr3xwsj/wish/298362665 The silk road, though important and impactful, caused numerous of tragedies and hard times for its followers. Mountains were extremely tall and steep, and were hard to walk up. Unpredictable weather made it extremely difficult to manoeuvre in the rough terrain. Though hard to pass through, the silk roads carried extremely important information that changed the course of human history. The Silk Roads were described as, "...it served like the internet does, as a linked network of communication nodes." The roads were distanced 10,000 miles, from China to France. The first use of the silk roads was of course, silk. The Chinese sold or traded silk to wealthy European royal families for extraordinary prices. The silk was high valued for being very refined and extremely soft. China, led by Zhang Qian in 200-114 BCE traded for things like cattle, horses, leathers, and furs. Yaks and camels were used to transport these goods and carried a load of about 300 pounds. However, the ideas and inventions that were passed through the silk roads were far more important than the goods being passed. Music, songs and stories traveled along the silk road, being shared around campfires while travelers rested. Broad human ideas such as Buddhism travelled, which ultimately changed the course of human history. ]]> 2018-10-30 06:35:40 UTC https://padlet.com/ritter48387/le0i7rr3xwsj/wish/298362665 gupta35663 https://padlet.com/ritter48387/le0i7rr3xwsj/wish/298364153 2018-10-30 06:46:30 UTC https://padlet.com/ritter48387/le0i7rr3xwsj/wish/298364153 gupta35663 https://padlet.com/ritter48387/le0i7rr3xwsj/wish/298364398 This is connected to globalization and collective learning because when people trade/exchange goods and ideas through the silk road, people are integrating and sharing ideas with each other through the silk road, because with more ideas, the world would be more advanced, therefore, the silk road helped to sustain and develop our world.]]> 2018-10-30 06:48:13 UTC https://padlet.com/ritter48387/le0i7rr3xwsj/wish/298364398 gupta35663 https://padlet.com/ritter48387/le0i7rr3xwsj/wish/298365032 We should not call it the "silk road" because the silk road represents globilization, collective learning, trading, language, and religon/culture. Even though silk is one of the goods that has been traded through the silk road, it wasn't the main item. But it doesn't refer much to silk as it does to other products. For example, according to "Asiasociety.org", this article refers to how there are many items and ideas being passed through the silk road other than "silk". : "These examples and dozens more that could be mentioned make the point clear: ideas, inventions, devices and techniques spread readily and far along the Silk Road" This section of the article explains how there were over a dozen items, ideas and inventions were being passed though the silk road, and silk was barely involved. Another invention that spread entirely across Eurasia was irrigation and the waterwheel. Another invention was made by the Chinese: paper. Paper has globilized througt the whole globe and the "silk road" was the main way that paper traveled through Asia and other parts of the globe. Silk is not involved that much in the "Silk Road", so therefor, If silk is not connected much in any way, than why should it be called the silk road?]]> 2018-10-30 06:53:49 UTC https://padlet.com/ritter48387/le0i7rr3xwsj/wish/298365032 ritter48387 https://padlet.com/ritter48387/le0i7rr3xwsj/wish/298365325 Well, no, we should't call the network of trades and globalisation in the 19 century. The 'Silk Road' wasn't just the trade of Silk. Yes Silk was the main goods traveled between the East and the West but the Silk Road wasn't just a connection between silk, it was also the globalization of languages, art, culture, economics, and religion. For example, in the article 'The Spread of Religion & Philosophy along the Silk Road', Richard C. Foltz states, "Much of the Silk Road economy was in the hands of Buddhist traders and the monasteries they supported along the way, so they were the direct competitors of Muslim traders from the 7th century onwards." Buddhism and Islan both spread throughout Western and Eastern China. Not only was religon and culture spread by the Silk Road, the development of technologies spread across the Silk Road. Foltz remarks, "The Chinese seem to have acquired technologies such as wheeled transportation and forms of metallurgy, from Western traders. Technologies as paper production and gunpowder were transmitted later from China to the West." The transportation of the new upcoming technologies such as the wheel and production of gunpwoder and paper transmitted throughout China and to the West. This proves that Silk Road is an improper name to call the globalisation of languages, art, culture, economics, and religion.]]> 2018-10-30 06:56:03 UTC https://padlet.com/ritter48387/le0i7rr3xwsj/wish/298365325 strecker45569 https://padlet.com/ritter48387/le0i7rr3xwsj/wish/298968851 The silk road should not keep its name. Though silk was the very first good to  travel the roads, it was not the most impactful occurrence that the silk roads achieved. The silk roads represented globalisation, culture, religion, collective learning, and trading. These things were far more significant than solely silk on its own. For example, in the article, 'Lost on the Silk Road' Peter Stark writes, "Almost more important than the goods (Silk) that travelled across the silk roads were the ideas and inventions that it carried from east to west and vise versa." Stark explains how the ideas changed human history forever. Historically, silk did not do much for westerners other than creating beautiful clothing. This didn't create much impact as only the richest people could acquire thous silk products. However, ideas like the early stories of Buddhism changed history forever. Sta\rk writes, "...broad ideas changed the course of human history. Buddhism first developed in India
in the sixth century BCE, and the Silk Road
helped carry the faith’s teachings to China
and elsewhere, until eventually it became
the dominant religion of much of Asia." This predominately shows that the ideas and inventions that were brought by the silk roads were far more impactful than just silk itself. Such historic events such as the silk roads should be named after what they're most impactful for, not what it was known for.]]> 2018-10-31 13:42:06 UTC https://padlet.com/ritter48387/le0i7rr3xwsj/wish/298968851