WORLD HISTORYMR. BOYER

The Silk Roads

The Silk Road (or Silk Routes) is an extensive interconnected network ofroutes for trade that connect Asia with the Middle East and Europe.

The Silk Road was an important path for trade and for cultural diffusion. Missionaries and traders, soldiers and travelers crossed these routes exchanging products like silk and other fabrics, spices, perfume, saffron, medicines, glassware, and agricultural products.

They spread religions and technology and … plague..

Silk Thread

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Click icon to add pictureSaffron, perfume, rhubarb

Spices, medicine, jewels

Glassware, bronze work

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BUDDHISMART

TECHNOLOGY

Cultural exchanges on the Silk Road

Gunpowder and Fireworks

Printing

Compass

Astrolabe

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How do you think trade affected relations between the nations

involved? Why?