The Silk Road: Trade That Shaped the World
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Where The Silk Road: Trade That Shaped the World takes you
Journey across ancient deserts and mountains to discover how the world's first global trade network connected East and West. Explore the exchange of luxury goods, revolutionary ideas, and diverse cultures that built the modern world.
- 1
Foundations of the Great Silk Road
- Zhang Qian and the Han Dynasty Expansion
- Geography of the Steppe and Oasis Routes
- The Role of the Xiongnu and Nomadic Tribes
- Logistics: Caravanserais and Pack Animals
- 2
Goods, Greed, and Global Commerce
- Sericulture: The Secret of Chinese Silk
- Spices, Incense, and the Roman Demand
- Precious Metals and the Flow of Currency
- The Glassware of the Mediterranean
- Paper and Gunpowder: Technology Transfer
- The Sogdian Merchants: Middlemen of Asia
- 3
The Exchange of Faith and Philosophy
- The Spread of Buddhism to the East
- Nestorian Christianity and Manichaeism
- Islamic Expansion and the Golden Age of Science
- 4
The Mongol Era and the End of an Age
- Pax Mongolica: Security and Integration
- Marco Polo and the European Perspective
- The Black Death: Pathogens on the Move
- The Rise of Maritime Routes and Decline
- Modern Legacy: The Belt and Road Initiative
4 sections · 18 units · 54 levels. Built to play, not to enroll.
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