Silk

In Susan Whitfield’s Life Along the Silk Road, she takes primary sources from the Dunhuang Manuscripts to create conglomerate characters, proving the inaccuracy of the popular phrase “Silk Road, ” a label for popular trading networks that stretched all the way from Rome, Africa, India, and China.In her introduction, Whitfield makes it clear to her readers of the origin of the term “Silk Road.” The first to coin this phrase was a German geographer, Baron Ferdinand von Richthofen. Many students…

there have been many cases of long-established trade, none of these are as famous as the Silk Road of China. The Silk Road integrated China and the Western World, including India, Greece, Persia and Rome. It was named the Silk Road in 1877 by the German geographer Ferdinand von Richthofen. The Silk Road was first established in the second century BC and it was put out of use in the 1400’s. Not only was silk traded on this road but culture as well. Many religions, consisting of Buddhism,…

Many exchanges occurred on the Silk Road, in it, included culture. The Silk Road did not only promote commodity exchange but also cultural. For example, Buddhism one of the religions of the Kushan kingdom, reached all the way to China. Together with merchant caravans, Buddhist monks went from India to Central Asia and China, preaching the new religion. The first onset of Christianity is connected with the activity of Nestorians. In the 13th century the Silk Road was the route for the new wave of…

The Silk Road was a network of trading routes, involving the passing of goods to people from city to city. Between 200 BCE to 1450 CE the Silk Road had experienced important transitions that would alter societies, including major religions, the social hierarchies, and the rise and fall of empires. With these changes, some of the ideas of society stayed consistent like the desire for luxury goods by the upper class. The Silk Roads played a major role in the spread of multiple religions. The…

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. This paper will examine…

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…

The two millennial old highway known as the Silk Road, stretched from Spain to the Southeastern Asia’s ports . Human intercommunication was essential for the advancement of human history and technology, the Silk Road was the first and an effective human invention bringing a way for the Eastern and Western cultures of Afro-Eurasia to interact, thus not only; spreading religion, reformation of governments, intercommunication between diverse ethnicities for the first time, making advancements in…

The Silk Road should be called The Silk Road because one of first high retail forms of commerce and trade was silk. It was invented by Empress Xi Ling during the Qin dynasty, she was drinking tea when a cocoon dropped for a mulberry tree, as she pulled it out of her cup, the cocoon unwound and became a single shimmery strand of silk. Xi Ling then gathered more cocoons and wove it into a cloth, creating the first silk item, a silk cloth. The start of the Silk Road began in China therefore it is…

time period of 500 B.C.E and 1000 C.E, the silk roads, primarily in the region of East Asia, exhibited changes such as the spread of different philosophies and techniques throughout the regions, while retaining continuities such as the trade of spices and the spread of the religion. These changes and continuities…

product or innovation may travel far, but word of mouth travels much further. The silk road was a series of trade routes used by merchants in the 130 BC that connected China to the Mediterranean Sea. The route earns its name from the silk that was initially traded from China to European civilizations. But more important than the products that were traded, the Silk Road had a significant impact on early civilizations. The silk road had a significant impact on ancient cultures because it spread…