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Teaching about the Silk Roads. Myth, Mystery, and Mayhem. Map of the Ancient Silk Roads. Map of China. Conduit between East and West. Commercial trade goods Travelers of all kinds Migrations of peoples Armies and conquests Inventions and discoveries Ideas and religions
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Teaching about the Silk Roads Myth, Mystery, and Mayhem
Conduit between East and West • Commercial trade goods • Travelers of all kinds • Migrations of peoples • Armies and conquests • Inventions and discoveries • Ideas and religions • Art, culture, and music
Geography • Multiple environments on the silk roads • Relation of environment to life style • Population constraints and problems
Travelers on the Silk Roads • Zhang Qian • Fa Xian • Xuan Zang • Genghis Khan • Marco Polo • Ibn Battuta • Aurel Stein • Mildred French
Buddhist Pilgrim Fa Xian • Description of the Taklamakan desert • In this desert there are great many evil spirits and hot winds; those who encounter them perish to a man. There are neither birds above nor beasts below. Gazing on all sides as far as the eye can reach in order to mark the track, no guidance is to be obtained save from the rotting bones of dead men, which point the way."
Foreign Devil on the Silk Road • Aurel Stein
Mildred Cable • Missionaries on the Silk Road
Migrations of peoples • Mummies of Loulan
Groups traveled East to West and West to East • Yuezhi • Xiong Nu • Kitan • Turkish groups • (Uyghurs, Kazaks, • Usbeks, Turks, etc) • Mongols • Chinese • Persians • Arabs • Russians
Conquerors on the Silk Road • Xiong Nu (Huns) • Mongols • Alexander the Great • Tibetans • Arabs • Turkic Tribes • Russians • Chinese
The Great Game: Russians, Chinese and British struggle over “Chinese Turkistan”
Religions on the Silk Road • Zoroastrianism • Nestorian Christianity • Manichaeism • Buddhism • Islam