Silk Road by Arsh Sinha https://padlet.com/sinha46300/o9fr2s0mz6r1 en-us 2017-10-02 04:42:33 UTC 2017-10-03 14:14:54 UTC hello@padlet.com Geographical Setting of the 'Silk Road' sinha46300 https://padlet.com/sinha46300/o9fr2s0mz6r1/wish/192850851 2017-10-02 04:51:06 UTC https://padlet.com/sinha46300/o9fr2s0mz6r1/wish/192850851 Products of the Silk Road takalkar33106 https://padlet.com/sinha46300/o9fr2s0mz6r1/wish/192851119 "Another invention that spread entirely across Eurasia was the noria, or irrigation waterwheel. This simple, ingenious device, invented in Roman Syria, consists of a vertical waterwheel to the rim of which are attached a series of pots or tubes. As the current of a river rotates the wheel, the pots fill with water at the bottom of the cycle and empty into a chute at the top; a large noria can lift water as much as forty feet with no input of human or animal energy. This inspired invention was obviously a good idea, and rapidly spread along the Silk Road and its tributaries. There is a famous example in Toledo, Spain, others along the upper reaches of the Yellow River in China, and many more in between." (Asiasociety.com)

"Foodstuffs also count in this category of the travel of ideas and techniques Apples spread, in prehistoric times via the steppe belt, in both directions from the region of modern-day Kazakhstan; oranges went (via the maritime route) from China to the Mediterranean world; grapes went from the western reaches of the Silk Road to China." (Asisociety.com)

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, and the traffic was very much a two way, or perhaps one should say a multi-way, street. In the process the Silk Road enriched not just the merchants who carried and exchanged goods, but the people of countries and cultures all across Eurasia. (Asiasociety.com)

]]> 2017-10-02 04:54:16 UTC https://padlet.com/sinha46300/o9fr2s0mz6r1/wish/192851119 sinha46300 https://padlet.com/sinha46300/o9fr2s0mz6r1/wish/192851315 The term Silk Road denotes a network of trails and trading posts, oases and emporia connecting East Asia to the Mediterranean. 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.]]> 2017-10-02 04:56:38 UTC https://padlet.com/sinha46300/o9fr2s0mz6r1/wish/192851315 sinha46300 https://padlet.com/sinha46300/o9fr2s0mz6r1/wish/192851681 Trade along the Silk Road waxed or waned according to conditions in China, Byzantium, Persia, and other regions and countries along the way. ]]> 2017-10-02 05:01:35 UTC https://padlet.com/sinha46300/o9fr2s0mz6r1/wish/192851681 Religion of the Silk Road jung49296 https://padlet.com/sinha46300/o9fr2s0mz6r1/wish/192851773 "Religious beliefs of the peoples of the Silk Road changed radically over time and was largely due to the effects of travel and trade on the Silk Road itself. For over two thousand years the Silk Road was a network of roads for the travel and dissemination of religious beliefs across Eurasia." (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)



]]> 2017-10-02 05:02:54 UTC https://padlet.com/sinha46300/o9fr2s0mz6r1/wish/192851773 sinha46300 https://padlet.com/sinha46300/o9fr2s0mz6r1/wish/192851893 The Concept of Asia
Asia can be fruitfully thought of as the major part of a larger physical territory, the continent of Eurasia.

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