Silk Road

cane, rice, citrus trees, and eggplants. The Silk Road also brought new religion like Zoroastrianism and Christianity, which impacted the Sasanids because religion was spread to them. 22) It is accurate to compare trade routes like the Silk Road to the internet today because they both provide needed products or needed information. They both also connect people from different parts of the world, where people can communicate with others. The Silk Road and internet both influenced and impacted…

Silk, an important textile that changes the world through its trade in ancient times. Because of the attraction of its profits, it inspired people to journey through unknown lands, which played an important role in the diffusion of culture, religion, technology, and societies among civilizations. Historically, China guarded its secrets of processing silk (sericulture) that was controlled by Chinese authorities. But around 550 AD the secrets of China methods for domesticating wild silk were…

Taking a Look Into the Past, Understanding it Now American author Elizabeth Wayland Barber, who is an expert on textiles, wrote the book Women’s Work: The First 20,000 Years: Women, Cloth, and Society in Early Times in 1994, which takes the reader into the world as it was many years ago. In doing so, it enlightens one on how and why the women created textiles and eventually advanced and created other things. Today people know the clothes worn were made and the blankets used were created, but do…

which trade routes were an essential part of globalization in the ancient world, thus including routes such as The Silk Road, The Grand Trunk Road, as well as Incense Road. There are many roads and paths discussed in ancient writings. These are used to not only move goods and products, but also to spread religions, messages, and ways of life. One main road is the Silk Road. The Silk road expands between around five empires; those ranging from The Roman Empire, Parthian Empire, Kushan Empire,…

The Benefits of plants is that it is an overall a more efficient way to process. There are a significant higher number of nutrients, yields, and stress tolerance; in turn developing a higher immunity to disease, pests, and herbicides. In animals, it produces a higher immunity, larger amount and greater thickness, resulting in better and more quantity of meat, eggs, and milk. Over time, this had led to better animal health and more diagnostic methods. The main controversies involve safety,…

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dmittedly, the last three things make my blood boil, because they are an eyesore! Pocket square, hence the word SQUARE! Your pocket square should be neat, fold the fabric into a SQUARE! It shouldn’t look like a clown napkin, like you pushed it down into the pocket and slowly pulled it out so it could collapse on your chest. Generally speaking, your tie should JUST reach the waistband of your trousers, or slightly shorter, if you can’t take your jacket off because your tie looks like your…

Her pale fingers reached for the blanket only to feel the feeling of silk beneath her fingers causing her to bolt up. Gazing around the dimly let room caused a frown to form on her face. Last thing she remembered was being in the woods before blacking out, and wherever she was it wasn't sitting well with her. The feeling…

Y/N steps out of her favorite takeout place, the plastic bag full of deliciously hot food heavy in her hand, and silently thanks the universe that the little restaurant is open nearly 24/7. She usually isn’t one to get takeout at two in the morning, but with the day she had, she needs it. She turns on her heel, ready to begin the walk to her apartment, but she stops dead in her tracks when she sees that it is pouring. Her shoulders sag slightly at the thought of walking home in wet clothes, but…

The car screeched as my mother slowed down to turned off the main road onto my grandparent’s dirt driveway. The top of the trees arched around the beaten dirt road casting a shadow that soon blocked the sun from my view. The feeling of the road tossing our car back and forth like it weigh nothing, caused my stomach to rock. The rocking got so bad my mother slowed down to 15 miles an hour as she navigated her way up to the main house. My grandparents have a chunk of land next to the Whitefish…