Facts about the trade network known as “The Silk Road” • It was more than one road - actually a network of caravan routes that stretched across the continent. • Developed over time by many traders and groups. • Almost no one traveled the whole route. Most people bought and sold goods on either end of one segment of the route.
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Facts about the trade network known as “The Silk Road”
• It was more than one road - actually a network of caravan routes that stretched across the continent.
• Developed over time by many traders and groups.
• Almost no one traveled the whole route. Most people bought and sold goods on either end of one segment of the route.
Camels, horses
Animals
Banditsand
Monks
People
Mountains,Deserts,Oases
(plural of oasis)
Places
Silk Road towns connected the largest citiesof the West and East in 100 CE.
WestWest EastEast
Our Silk Roads journey starts in China.
In China, Merchants load fine silk clothand herbal medicines onto
two-humped Bactrian camels.
Bandits from Mongolia or Tibetmay attack caravans.
Therefore, Chinese soldiers must travel with the caravans.
In Tibet, an importantBuddhist religious center.
Buddhist monks traveled along the Silk Roadand brought Buddhismfrom India to China.
Taklamakan Desert (“if you go in, you won’t come out”):
Caravans must travel through this desertbefore the heat of summer hits.