HIST2321 IDST2372

1
Cross-Cultural Exchanges on the Silk Roads (9)

• Long-Distance Trade the Silk Roads
• Network  
• Why was Zhang Qian's mission of significance to
  the Chinese Emperor Han Wudi and the relations of
  China with the west?

Lion Gate Mycaenae
2
The Silk Roads
The silk roads, 2000 B.C.E. 300 C.E.
3
Long-Distance Trade the Silk Roads Network

• Trade Networks of the Hellenistic Era
• The Monsoon System
• Trade in the Hellenistic World
• The Silk Roads
• Overland Trade Routes

4
The Spread of Hinduism, Buddhism Christianity,
200 BCE 400 CE
5
Cross-Cultural Exchanges on the Silk Roads

• The Silk Roads
• Overland Trade Routes
• Sea Lanes Maritime Trade
• Trade Goods
• The Organization of
• Long-Distance Trade

Ruins near Turpan on the Silk Road
6
Culture Along the Silk Roads

• The Spread of Buddhism Hinduism
• Buddhism in Central Asia

The Spread of Buddhism, Hinduism, and
Christianity, 200 B.C.E. 400 C.E.
7
Cross-Cultural Exchanges on the Silk Roads
The Silk Road Today Turpan
8
The Silk Road Today Turpan
9
Cross-Cultural Exchanges on the Silk Roads

• Cultural Exchanges Along the Silk Roads
• The Spread of Buddhism Hinduism
• Buddhism in Central Asia
• Buddhism and Hinduism in Southeast Asia
• The Spread of Christianity
• Christianity in the Mediterranean Basin
• Christianity in Southwest Asia

10
Cross-Cultural Exchanges on the Silk Roads

• Culture Along
• the Silk Roads

4th century C.E, Buddhist Community at Dunhuang
on the Silk road
11
Cross-Cultural Exchanges on the Silk Roads

• Cultural Exchanges Along the Silk Roads
• The Spread of Manichaeism
• Mani and Manichaeism
• Manichaean Ethics
• Decline of Manichaeism
• Biological Exchanges Along the Silk Roads
• The Spread of Epidemic Disease
• Epidemic Diseases
• Effects of Epidemic Diseases

Fragment Mani manuscript
12
Cross-Cultural Exchanges on the Silk Roads

• Sources From the Past
• St. Cyprian on Epidemic Disease in the Roman
  Empire
• The epidemic is a pestilence for the Jews and
  the pagans and the enemies of Christ, but for the
  servants of God it is a welcome event.
• -St Cyprian, On Morality

13
Cross-Cultural Exchanges on the Silk Roads

• The Fall of the Han Dynasty
• Internal Decay of the Han State
• Peasant Rebellion
• Collapse of the
• Han Dynasty

China after the Han dynasty, 220 C.E.
14
Cross-Cultural Exchanges on the Silk Roads

• The Fall of the Han Dynasty
• Cultural Change in Post-Han China
• Sinicization of Nomadic Peoples
• Popularity of Buddhism
• The Fall of the Roman Empire
• Internal Decay in the Roman Empire
• The Barracks Emperors
• Diocletian
• Constantine

Constantine
15
Epidemics in the Han Roman Empires
16
The Fall of the Roman Empire

• Germanic Invasions the Western Roman Empire
• Germanic Migrations
• The Huns
• Collapse of the
• Western Roman Empire
• After 5th CE Byzantine

Germanic Invasions the Fall of the western
Roman Empire, 450-476 C.E.
17
Cross-Cultural Exchanges on the Silk Roads

• The Fall of the Roman Empire
• Cultural Change in the Late Roman Empire
• Prominence of Christianity
• St. Augustine
• The Institutional Church

Baptism of St. AugustineBenozzo Gozzoli
(1464-65)
18
Key Words Terms (9)

• trans-ecological
• Afro-Eurasian landmass
• Monsoons
• Nestorians
• Manichaeism (Mani)
• Epidemic diseases
• Biological transfer
• Zang Qian
• Taklamakan desert
• Kashgar (Kashi)
• mare nostrum

• Council of Nicea
• Constantine
• Council of Nicaea
• St. Augustine
• saco de Roma, 410
• Attila the Hun
• Alaric