Throughout Global history, there have been many river valleys which play a big role on early civilization and make the important contribution to the world. Three civilization of these is Mesopotamia, India, and China. Mesopotamia is the land that located between Tigris and Euphrates river. This can be considered as the reason why Mesopotamia called Mesopotamia. In Greek, it technically means between two rivers, and obviously this is exactly what was happening.…
1. Glacier- thick sheet of ice. Irrigate- to water crops by channeling water. Culture-way of life.…
The Silk Road, extending over 4,000 miles, was a large network of trade routes used in ancient times for centuries to exchange different goods, materials, ideas, and several other different things; good and bad. The Silk Road routes stretched from China through India, Asia Minor, up throughout Mesopotamia, to Egypt, the African continent, Greece, Rome, and Britain1. Silk was very sought after in ancient times, and was only produced in China. The Chinese had kept the secret of silk-making for over 2,000 years. The moths that produced this silk were found mainly in China hence their hold on the silk trade.…
Traveling the Silk Road was more reliable before then traveling today. China was the central source for silk. Silk was a precious luxurious cloth used for clothes, decoration etc. China made Silk from silkworms and China was the only one who grasped this secret. China had about eight billion dollars of…
The Silk Road has intentionally and unintentionally transformed civilizations. Document two states that “caravans of traders carried silk, tea, and pottery westward.... Religious practices like Islam, Buddhism, and Christianity spread from the Silk Road. In the city markets, traders from the East and West helped spread traditions, art and culture. Inventions such as gunpowder, paper, and the magnetic compass also gain popularity along the Silk Road.”…
The Silk Road was a network of trade routes, formally established during the Han Dynasty of China, linking China to Central and West Asia, the Mediterranean and India. The Silk Road got its name from the German geographer, Ferdinand von Richthofen in 1877 because it’s major product was silk and it was traded through this route. Besides the exchange of the silk, there were many other merchandises, such as spices, cloth, paper, porcelain, chinaware, grape and wine, glass, and music instruments that were traded. It was also the route by which Buddhism and Nestorianism found new converts. The Silk Road wasn't only for trading goods but it also was used to spread different cultures from China, India, Persia, Arabia, Greek and Rome.…
About 3000 years ago, what is now known as China became the most thriving empire of the time because of the ideas and abilities that the rulers and citizens had. They became extremely successful after a man named Qin Shi Huang Di took the throne and ruled China for many years. During this period of time they mapped a route called the Silk Road. The Silk Road was created to carry the many inventions that are part of our daily lives. Many of the inventions created in china helped it to thrive and rule over many other countries efficiently.…
China was very well known for industrial or innovative influence and also the “correct ways to live your life.” One of the most popular and famous prophets from China was Confucius. Confucius cared about order and respect, and he impacted the lives of a majority of the Chinese population. From Document 5, “In China, Confucius wrote down his philosophy which explained how people should live their lives. Confucianism teaches that each person should accept his or her role in society.…
In Emma Bunker and Jenny So’s Traders and Raiders on China's Northern Frontier, both of them examine the closely related connection between ancient China and its northern region. I think there is one thing important to pay extra attention. For the newcomers in the fourth-first century, the new tribes change from semisedentary pastoralism to full-scale transhumance. At the same time, tribes demand something that is useful for their daily routine, rather than luxury goods.…
Genghis Khan Genghis Khan was the first Great Khan of the Mongolian Empire. Even though he is not considered a humanist or a student of business he did quite a lot to expand both fields through his reign. The primary example is the revitalization of the Silk Road which lead to cultural diffusion and more trade within the conquered nations. In this paper we will be discussing how Genghis Khan came into power, and his cultural and economic impact on the world through the rebuilding of the Silk Road, and by relocating people throughout his empire.…
The silver trade of the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries was a major historical process. The global flow of silver had many effects on the multitude of societies that participated. There were many economic effects, such as the heavy global economic involvement of many Asian nations in this trade (Documents 2,4,6,7,8) and greater monetary pressure in China during the Ming Dynasty (Documents 1,3,5), and some social nuances because of this trade, such as a greater European desire for Asian goods (2,4,8), but the economic effects had a greater historical impact because this was the first time a global currency was present in trade. The Asian continent held many countries that engaged in the global silver trade, which had a substantial impact…
The impact of the Silk Road upon European and Asian civilizations was immense. Resulting in cultural diffusion on a massive scale the Silk Road provided a conduit for the migration of foreign ideals, philosophies, and religions. Along with this wealth of information came the silk and spice trades, the founding products that led to the original creation and prosperity of the Silk Road. Together these two basic principles of wealth and a lust for knowledge drove the forces that changed European and Asian civilization forever. Geography Coined through the observations of the German geographer Ferdinand von Richtofen, the Silk Road was a series of trade routes stretching from the Mediterranean and the empires of Western Europe to Eastern civilization…
The Chinese played a large part in forming the Silk Road, since much of the silk that was made came from this region of the world. During the 2nd century B.C.E., the Chinese began forming trade routes that would span across various Chinese territories and then move outward through India and, eventually, into Europe. In this manner, the highly desirable silk products brought from China would inevitably open up a new form of international trade between differing inter-connecting civilizations: “This was what became known as the “Silk Road” whereby some manufactured products but mainly hard currency found its way to the East and silk, spices, tea, etc found there way to the West” (Hilton et al. 124). Much like the Trans-Saharan and Roman-Indian trade routes, the link between civilizations would be a foundation for inter-connecting differing civilizations in the movement of goods across large geographic areas. This was a major positive development in the opening of trade between major civilizations during this historical period.…
In an article by Yale they state that the transfer of culture was so important they state this by saying “Chinese learned from other societies, specifically India, the home of Buddhism.” (Hanson). This proves how important the Silk Road was because it allowed this new religion to completely take over the Chinese…
The Silk Road’s ancient trade routes allowed for cultural and material trade throughout the Mediterranean to East Asia. Xinru Liu’s The Silk Road in World History exemplifies the complex exchange of commodities and ideas between different nations and peoples. Starting with the Chinese looking west and ending with the Mongol conquest. Liu’s focus gives the reader examples of specific historic events that were only able to take place because of this intricate trade network.…