Name - Tushar
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Geography Project
Silk Route
Silk Route
The Silk Road or Silk Route refers to a
historical network of interlinking trade
routes across the Afro-Eurasian landmass
that connected East, South, and Western
Asia with the Mediterranean and European
world, as well as parts of North and East
Africa. The land routes were supplemented
by sea routes which extended from the Red
Sea to East Africa, India, China, and
Southeast Asia.
Extending 4,000 miles (6,500 km), the Silk
Road gets its name from the lucrative
Chinese silk trade along it, which began
during the Han Dynasty (206 BCE 220
CE). The central Asian sections of the trade
routes were expanded around 114 BCE by
the Han dynasty, largely through the
missions and explorations of Zhang
The Father Of The
Silk Road
Zhang Qian father of
Silk Road
The expansion of the Han empire
made the Silk road possible by
opening up trade routes.
A Chinese explorer named Zhang
Qian is often called the father of
the Silk Road.
Zhang Qian was sent to make an
alliance with the Huns, which was
never successful. He did however
learn about crops such as grapes,
a more powerful horse for
combat, and established trade
relationships.
Silk as a good
trade
Silk was a valuable trade
good because it was a
cloth that was strong,
warm, light, and soft.
It was valuable because at
the time only the Chinese
knew how to make it.
Under Han rule revealing
the silk making process
was punishable by death.
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ITEMS TRADED ALONG THE SILK ROAD
GLASS
BACTRIAN
CAMELS
CARPETS
METAL
WORK
PORCELAIN
SILK
JADE
SPICES
Rome Trades
Glassware For Silk
When people of other culture learned about silk, it
was a highly prized material.
The roman wanted silk and it was considered
luxury item.
The Roman traded glassware and gold something
the Chinese really wanted.
The Eastern Silk Road
Travelers faced
many problems such
as bandits often
attacking
sandstorms, and
lack of water.
The Silk road was not one
continuous route, but a series of
shorter trade routes so the goods
could change many time before
reaching the final destination.
From Luoyang , the silk road led
west along the Gobi Desert to
Dunhuang in Northwestern China.
Travelers rode a Camel on the
eastern silk road.
From Dunhuang travelers choose
either a northern or southern
route across the Takliman desert to
Kashgar.
Goods Exchanged Along
The Eastern Silk Road
Silk was the perfect trading good, because it was light and
valuable. Goods had to be easily carried so that merchants
could transport more goods on fewer animals.
Besides silk, the Chinese also traded fine dishware,
ornaments, jewelry, cast iron products, and decorative
boxes.
The Chinese received a variety of trades for their goods such
as horses, jade, furs, gold, cotton, spices, pearls, and ivory.
The Western Silk
Road
Kashgar was the central trading point and they traveled
Westward. Instead of carrying goods by camel they carried
goods by Yak.
The Western Silk road went through mountains, deserts,
and then finally reached the Mediterranean ports.
The dangers of the Western Silk road were treacherous
Mountains know as Trail of bones. In the Syrian Desert
traders were threatened by tigers, lions, and scorpions.
Goods Exchanged Along The
Western Silk Road
Rome sent a number of products
to be exchanged for Chinese silk
such as vases, trays, small
bottles, asbestos, and gold.
Tiberius the emperor of Rome
passed a law where it was illegal
to wear silk.
It was believed that Tiberius
though it would make the
Romans look soft and weak, but
many believed it was because of
the shortage of gold.
Cultural Exchanges And The
Silk Road
The trade between east and west created cultural diffusion.
By 500 B.C.E. the West and east had learned to make new
products from each other such as glass and silk.
With the sharing of cultures such as India, Buddhism spread
throughout china and other surrounding civilizations.
Food were also brought throughout the silk road. China
imported new food such as grapes, figs, pomegranates, and
walnuts. The West imported oranges, peaches, pears, and
different flowers such as chrysanthemums.
Renewing The Trade
After Mongols Silk Road disappears.
Portugese look for a way to renew trade
routes
This resulted in first maritime trade post
Europe China
New developments of silk route which
improves communication routes in high
altitude :
As the world is becoming
advanced so the facilities
and communication level
of silk route is also
improving new things
trains , vehicle and
satellites are used it . A
communications
satellite, sometimes
abbreviated to SATCOM,
is an artificial satellite
stationed in space for the
purposes of
telecommunications.
For fixed or point-to-point
services, communications
satellites provide a microwave
radio relay technology
complementary to that of
submarine communication
cables.
They are also used for mobile applications such as
communications to ships, vehicles, planes and hand-held
terminals, and for TV and radio broadcasting, for which
application of other technologies, such as cable, is
impractical or impossible.
Modern communications satellites use a variety of
orbits including geostationary orbits, Molniya orbits,
other elliptical orbits and low Earth orbits. Low earth
orbiting satellites are less expensive to launch into orbit
than geostationary satellites and, due to proximity to the
ground, don't require as high signal strength.With the
growing demand for remote access broadband services,
satellite networks are becoming increasingly popular. In
remote and rural areas, where there is little or no
terrestrial communications infrastructure, satellite
communications becomes the only viable option.
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