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Title: The Silk Road


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The Silk Road
  • Information super highway of its age

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Key Points
  • One of the oldest and most historically important
    trade routes
  • Linked the Roman Empire with China.
  • Trade carried on by foreign traders
  • Not common for traders to traverse the entire
    length

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Rise of the Silk Road
  • 2nd century BCE
  • From a desire for military and political purpose
    instead of for trade
  • Han tried to create an alliance
  • Failed
  • Made people in each area desire goods produced in
    the other

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Rise Contd
  • Silk Road was first established, silk was not the
    chief commodity
  • Influenced by the political developments
  • Stable state- smooth trade

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The Height of the Silk Road
  • Many reasons for prosperity
  • Tang- internal stability and economic development
  • Spreading of various religions in the world
  • Exchange of ideas

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Items up for Trade
  • Chinese predominantly imported gold, gems, ivory,
    glass, perfumes, dyes, and textiles
  • Chinese exported furs, ceramics, spices, jade,
    silk, bronze and iron

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Development of the Route
  • Problems for Han rulers
  • Bandits
  • Policing became a problem
  • Building forts and defensive walls helped, ie
    Great Wall
  • Most significant commodity carried was religion
  • Buddhism (Tang), Christianity and eventually
    Islam and Judaism

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Decline of the Silk Road
  • Fall of the Tang in the early 10th
  • Affected by the Crusades
  • Trade declined sharply till in the 13th century,
    until Mongols picked it back up
  • Isolationist policies of Ming dynasty (after
    Mongol)

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Decline Contd
  • Discovery of a sea route from Europe to Asia in
    the late 15th century
  • Less cost, harassment and danger
  • Easier transportation of some items
  • Less prosperous

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