http://www.businessinsider.com/myanmar-coke-2012-6

The Growth of the Silk Roads

1. History

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77ktNSPFbwQ

1. Buddhism on the road

Standing Buddha Greco-Buddhist style, 1st-2nd century

B.C.E

Discussion pgs 88-90

1. What are sutras?

2. What are the “Jesus Sutras”? Where were

these writings found? When were they

written?

3. What do these texts reveal about the process

of culture blending that occurred along the

Silk Roads?

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Disease in Transit

1. in Han and Rome Empires

2. Bubonic plague in Byzantium

3. Mongols and the Black Death

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMu15u6GUcc

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Admiral

Zheng He

11 Jurubaças 17th Century

Sea Roads: Exchange across the Indian Ocean

B. Sea Roads as a Catalyst for Change: Southeast Asia

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