Examples of the Silk Road in the following topics:
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- Control of the Silk Road would shuttle between China and Tibet until 737 CE.
- This second Pax Sinica helped the Silk Road reach its golden age.
- However, as the Mongol Empire disintegrated, so did the Silk Road.
- Gunpowder hastened the failing integration, and the Silk Road stopped being a shipping route for silk around 1453 CE.
- In this map of the Silk Road, red shows the land route and blue shows the maritime route.
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- By reopening the Silk Road and increasing maritime trade by sail at sea, the Tang were able to gain many new technologies, cultural practices, rare luxuries, and foreign items.
- The Silk Road was the most important pre-modern Eurasian trade route.
- The Tang dynasty established a second Pax Sinica and the Silk Road reached its golden age, whereby Persian and Sogdian merchants benefited from the commerce between East and West.
- When the An Lushan Rebellion ended in 763, the Tang Empire had once again lost control over its western lands, as the Tibetan Empire largely cut off China's direct access to the Silk Road.
- The Silk Road also affected Tang dynasty art.
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- The Silk Road is a strong example of the evolution and historic significance of global trade, as achieving common and predictable trade routes and practices resulted in large increases in regards to cross-cultural exchange.
- The derivation of the term 'globalization' stems from the verb 'to globalize', which embodies the concept of international interdependence and influence between various social and economic systems.
- As cultures such as the Sumerian's realized the advantages of trading, the surrounding regions began a slow transition towards trade with other nations.
- Europe and Asia, due to the enormous cultural diversity and relative ease of travel, played a substantial role in this development throughout the past 5,000 years. represents what a number of specific trade spheres looked like during the 13th century, highlighting the value in proximity to other nations. is slightly more specific and represents the Silk Road, one of History's most distinct examples of trade development.
- The Silk Road stretched across Asia from the Mediterranean Sea to the Pacific Coast of China, making it one of history's strongest examples of international trade development.
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- During the Yuan dynasty, trade flourished and peace reigned along the newly revived Silk Road, contributing to a period known as the Pax Mongolica.
- On the Silk Road, caravans with Chinese silk and spices such as pepper, ginger, cinnamon, and nutmeg from the Spice Islands came to the West via the transcontinental trade routes.
- Along with land trade routes, a Maritime Silk Road contributed to the flow of goods and establishment of a Pax Mongolica.
- This Maritime Silk Road started with short coastal routes in Southern China.
- A closeup of the Mallorquín Atlas depicting Marco Polo traveling to the East on the Silk Road during the Pax Mongolica.
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- European economic growth and the Silk Road's decline, stimulated the creation of major commercial routes along the Mediterranean coast.
- Although the Mongols had threatened Europe with pillage and destruction, Mongol states also unified much of Eurasia and, from 1206 on, the Pax Mongolica allowed safe trade routes and communication lines stretching from the Middle East to China—known as the silk road .
- The economic growth of Europe around the year 1000, together with the lack of safety on the mainland trading routes, eased the development of major commercial routes along the coast of the Mediterranean.
- The silk and spice trade, involving spices, incense, herbs, drugs, and opium, made these Mediterranean city-states phenomenally rich.
- In the 11th century, international production and trade was dominated by the exchange of silk, and thus countries along the silk route were the dominant participants in the "world-system. " Today, with vast communications and transportation technology, virtually every society participates in the world-system as either a source of raw materials, production, or consumption.
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- The Parthian Empire was also called the Arsacid Empire, after the Arscaid dynasty.
- As the heirs to the Achaemenid Empire, the Arsacid rulers titled themselves the "King of Kings. " The earliest enemies of the Parthians were the Seleucids in the west and the Scythians in the east.
- These military victories gave Parthia control of the overland trade routes between east and west (the Silk Road and the Persian Royal Road).
- The empire, located on the Silk Road trade route between the Roman Empire in the Mediterranean Basin and the Han Empire of China, became a center of trade and commerce.
- The Parthians controlled the major trade routes between the Roman Empire and the Han Empire of China, which became the foundation of Parthia's wealth and power.
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- The Mongol Empire began in the Central Asian steppes and lasted throughout the 13th and 14th centuries.
- The Pax Mongolica refers to the relative stabilization of the regions under Mongol control during the height of the empire in the 13th and 14th centuries.
- In this environment the largest empire to ever exist helped one of the most influential trade routes in the world, known as the Silk Road, to flourish.
- This route allowed commodities such as silk, pepper, cinnamon, precious stones, linen, and leather goods to travel between Europe, the Steppe, India, and China.
- In India, the Mongols' gains survived into the 19th century as the Mughal Empire.
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- The production and trade of textiles pre-dates Islam, and had long been
important to Middle Eastern cultures and cities, many of which had flourished
due to the Silk Road.
- These intricately knotted carpets were made of
silk, or a combination of silk and cotton, and were often rich in religious and
other symbolism.
- Hereke silk carpets, which were made in the coastal town of Hereke, were the
most valued of the Ottoman carpets because of their fine weave.
- In the sixteenth century, carpet weaving evolved from a nomadic
and peasant craft to a well-executed industry with specialization of design and
manufacturing using quality fibers such as silk.
- The Ottoman Turks were famed for their quality of their finely woven and intricately knotted silk carpets.
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- The art of China—"The Middle Kingdom"—has arguably the oldest continuous tradition in the world.
- Traditional painting involves essentially the same techniques as calligraphy; it is done with a brush dipped in black or colored ink and painted on paper or silk.
- Much of what is known of early Chinese figure painting comes from burial sites, where paintings were preserved on silk banners, lacquered objects, and tomb walls.
- Native Chinese religions do not typically use cult images of deities, and large religious sculptures are nearly all Buddhist, dating mostly from the 4th to the 14th century CE and arriving via the Silk Road.
- Bronze, gold, silver, rhinoceros horn, Chinese silk, ivory, lacquer, cloisonne enamel, and many other materials had specialist artists working in them.
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- The Wilderness Road was a westward route used by many immigrants that stretched from Virginia through the Appalachian mountains.
- The Wilderness Road refers to the primary route used by settlers for over fifty years to reach Kentucky from the eastern seaboard.
- The Wilderness Road also served as the primary means of commercial transport for the early settlers in Kentucky.
- When the National Road was opened in 1818, allowing travel to the Ohio River on level ground from the East, the westward travelers abandoned the the difficult and dangerous Wilderness Road.
- Course of the Wilderness Road, through Tennessee and Kentucky, by 1785.