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Teaching about the Silk Roads

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

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  1. Teaching about the Silk Roads Myth, Mystery, and Mayhem

  2. Map of the Ancient Silk Roads

  3. Map of China

  4. 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

  5. Central Asian Oud

  6. The Chinese Pipa

  7. Japanese Satsuma Biwa, played with Plectrum

  8. Renaissance Lute

  9. Geography • Multiple environments on the silk roads • Relation of environment to life style • Population constraints and problems

  10. Steppelands: what kind of life do they allow?

  11. Nomads and their portable home, the yurt

  12. Bactrian camels: The workhorses of the Silk Roads

  13. A camel can carry 1,000lbs and go 15 days without water

  14. Sheep are the basis of life in the desert and steppe

  15. Horses: transport, trade and war

  16. What kind of life is there in the desert?

  17. Entrance to a karez: underground water system

  18. Karez system: lifeblood of the Silk Roads

  19. What kind of life does one have in the mountains?

  20. Yaks: Carrying loads in the mountains

  21. Inventions on the Silk Roads:The stirrup and the cross bow

  22. The Mystery of Silk

  23. From worm to cocoon

  24. Unreeling the thread

  25. And finally, cloth

  26. Chinese inventions that changed the world

  27. Chinese porcelain

  28. Inventions the Chinese Borrowed: Glassware and the Chair

  29. Travelers on the Silk Roads • Zhang Qian • Fa Xian • Xuan Zang • Genghis Khan • Marco Polo • Ibn Battuta • Aurel Stein • Mildred French

  30. Zhang Qian’s Route

  31. 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."

  32. Buddhist Pilgrim Xuan Zang

  33. World conqueror Genghis Khan

  34. Marco Polo

  35. Muslim Traveler Ibn Battuta

  36. “Foreign Devils” on the Silk RoadAurel Stein and others

  37. Foreign Devil on the Silk Road • Aurel Stein

  38. Mildred Cable • Missionaries on the Silk Road

  39. Migrations of peoples • Mummies of Loulan

  40. 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

  41. Conquerors on the Silk Road • Xiong Nu (Huns) • Mongols • Alexander the Great • Tibetans • Arabs • Turkic Tribes • Russians • Chinese

  42. Xiong Nu or Huns

  43. Genghis and the Mongol Conquests

  44. Alexander the Great

  45. Tibetan Armies

  46. Arab Islamic armies conquer silk road nations

  47. The Great Game: Russians, Chinese and British struggle over “Chinese Turkistan”

  48. Religions on the Silk Road • Zoroastrianism • Nestorian Christianity • Manichaeism • Buddhism • Islam

  49. Zoroastriaism

  50. Nestorian Christianity

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