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The Ancient Silk Road - Guide to Facts, History & Places
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The ancient Silk Road is the world's oldest trading route and link between the East and the West. Not more important these days, the Silk Road has influenced everything along its way in past centuries. For you, we have found the best links to all facts, research data and detailed background information. |
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 THE SILK ROAD - HISTORY AND BACKGROUND
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There are many excellent and detailed articles about the history of the Silk Road. Here are some of them:
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Silk Road Chronology (Timeline & Article: "..The region separating China from Europe and Western Asia is not the most hospitable in the world. Much of it is taken up by the Taklimakan desert, one of the most hostile environments on our planet. There is very little vegetation, and almost no rainfall..")
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The Geography of the Silk Road (History & Geography. Detailed article)
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Silk Road ("..The Silk Road was named by the German geographer, Barn Ferdinand von Richthofen, as the greatest East to West trade route between China, Central Asia and Byzantium. This ancient route between East and West was established during 206 BC to AD 220 in Han Dynasty of China.." - Introduction & Overview)
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The Silk Road ("..The Silk Road - from its very beginnings more than two millennia ago this most famous of all ancient trade routes has been synonymous with adventure, mystery and wonder..")
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Silk Roads or Steppe Roads? The Silk Roads in World History ("..Modern historiography has not fully appreciated the ecological complexity of the Silk Roads. As a result, it has failed to understand their antiquity, or to grasp their full importance in Eurasian history...")
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The Silk Road - The story of one of the world's oldest and most historically important trade routes and its influences on the culture of China, Central Asia, and the West ("..The region separating China from Europe and Western Asia is not the most hospitable in the world. Much of it is taken up by the Taklimakan desert, one of the most hostile environments on our planet...")
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The Silk Road Encounters Education Kit ("..combines the best of technological and educational materials on the Silk Roads. As a symbol of the crossroads among civilizations, peoples, and cultures, the Silk Roads offer rich materials for students to explore diverse but interrelated topics on geography, trade, art, music, religion, and history. This kit supplements traditional classroom materials with a Sourcebook, interactive activity plans, audio and visual samplers, as well as reference materials..." - PDF; 48 p.)
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This sourcebook is designed to provide a general framework of ideas and information within which specific themes about the Silk Road can be more comprehensively understood and presented. Its purpose is twofold: First, to serve as a resource to help teachers prepare for lessons on the Silk Road by providing guidance in thinking through the big issues that surround the more specific curricular material and, second, to provide presenters of the Silk Road festivals and concerts with information on the Silk Road, especially its history of music and musical instruments..." - Detailed)
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The Silk Road Observed and Imagined ("..a non-credit lecture series presented in Winter 2002. "Silk Road" is shorthand for 1500 years of economic and cultural exchange across Eurasia, a subject best introduced through the eyes of its contemporary observers.." - Detailed)
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Silk Road Seattle ("..is an ongoing public education project using the "Silk Road" theme to explore cultural interaction across Eurasia from the beginning of the Common Era (A. D.) to the Seventeenth Century. Our principal goal is to provide via the Internet materials for learning and teaching about the Silk Road...")
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The Contribution of Ancient Iranian Civilization to the Silk- Road ("..In ancient times, homes in China acted as a market for handicrafts and its cities were thriving enters of commerce. Among the major handicrafts at that time was the production of silk fabrics. The silk industry in China can be traced back to the second millennium BC..")
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SILK ROAD MAPS AND ROUTE INFORMATION |
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When talking about the Silk Road, it is useful to see some maps. We found them in English and Chinese:
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Maps of the Silk Road (Three of them - In Chinese & English)
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Nice Silk Road Maps!
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The silk road - Starting in Baghdad (Map)
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The Main Routes of the old Silk Road (Map)
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The Silk Road ("..The Silk Road travels from Baghdad, ancient Seleucia, through Iran, into and through Afghanistan, and then into China.." - Interesting information about the route)
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The Silk Road during the Mongolian Empire (Map)
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SCIENCE AND ARCHAEOLOGY |
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The Silk Road has been explored from outer space. You can explore the satellite images albeit you may not know what you see. In any case, the project described below is fascinating:
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Lost Cities Of The Silk Road - A Space-Age Search For Relics Of Eurasia's Distant Past ("..In 1992 I joined a China Exploration and Research Society project to use radar remote sensing to look for lost cities under the sands of the Taklamakan Desert in northwest China...")
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The Silk Road Cave Shrines ("..A project to use VR to explore the treasure of one of the greatest arts and cultural discoveries of the 20th Century, the most spectacular Mogoa Grottoes of Dunhuang in western China. Dunhuang is one of the most famous Chinese ancient cultural site, and had become the gate way to well-known Silk Road, the East-West trade route, of Asia and Europe..")
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Armour and Warriors of the Silk Road ("..An overview of the effect of the Horsemen of the Eastern Steepes on world armour..")
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RELIGION AND THE SILK ROAD |
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The Silk-Road has effected and permitted many religions. There are some good articles about it on the net:
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Buddhism and Its Expansion Along the Silk Road ("..In addition to silk, precious stones, gunpowder, and invaluable new ideas the Silk Road helped disseminate Buddhism, one of its earliest, and most valuable, cultural exports...")
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Buddhism and Its Spread Along the Silk Road ("..Besides silk, paper and other goods, the Silk Road carried another commodity which was equally significant in world history. Along with trade and migration, the world's oldest international highway was the vehicle which spread Buddhism through Central Asia. The transmission was launched from northwestern India to modern Pakistan, Afghanistan, Central Asia.." - Detailed; with timelines)
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Religious art found on the Silk Road
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TRAVEL STORIES AND NEW TRAVEL INFORMATION |
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You
can travel nowadays along the Silk Road. Some did and here is
how they experienced the journey:
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China
- A Trip Along the Silk Road (Travel Story, 1991)
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The
Silk Road (Travel Article)
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Across
China's Silk Road (Article)
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The
Silk Road ("..The great trade route known as The Silk
Road once ran across much of the known world from China in
the East to the shores of the Mediterranean Sea in the West
- transporting goods, people, ideas and religions from one
end of the Eurasian land mass to the other..." - History,
Hotels, Photo Tour...)
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more...
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SILK-ROAD IMAGES AND PHOTO GALLERIES |
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Any article and reference to travel, history and culture should be supported by images - for the one at home. You can find them on the web, too:
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New Photos on the Silk Road (A page of nice images)
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Silk Road 2000 Photo Gallery (A page of nice images, too)
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The Silk Road - Pictures
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China's Silk Road ("..composite image of an area thought to contain the ruins of the ancient settlement of Niya. It is located in the southwest corner of the Taklamakan Desert in China's Sinjiang Province. This region was part of some of China's earliest dynasties and from the third century BC on was traversed by the famous Silk Road. The Silk Road, passing east-west through this image..")
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more...
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