Silk Road Vs Internet: The internet is a modern global system of connected networks that serves over a billion people around the world. It is a network that consists of different and various sources related to academics‚ business‚ local and global politics‚ and various private and public sources. The internet is a modern way for different types of people all over the world to be able to come together and communicate. The Silk Road is a series of trade and cultural transmission‚ connecting the
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Ngo 7th period 10/6/2012 SILK ROAD VS SAHARAN TRADE ROUTES The Silk Road and the Saharan Caravan trade routes had many differences and similarities in their development and the impact on the civilizations they made. They were comparable and diverse in many areas of society such as: the development of the empire and how it all began‚ architecture and writing that was developed‚ and the spread of religion throughout the region between 300 BCE – 600 CE. The Silk Road developed between 300 BCE and
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ross Cultural Exchanges and the Silk Road Edit 0 0 130… Cross Cultural Exchanges and the Silk Road Notes (pg. 287-310) In the year 139 B.C.E.‚ the Chinese emperor Han Wudi sent an envoy named Zhang Qian on a mission to lands west of china. The emperor’s purpose was to find allies who could help combat the nomadic Xiongnu‚ who menaced the northern and western borders of the Han empire. From captives he had learned that other nomadic peoples in far wester lands bore grudges against the Xiongnu
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Xiao Jie Yang History 9:30 The Silk Road Journey The Silk Road is one of the oldest and longest trade routes known in the ancient world. Xuan Zang is the only person in history known to have made the whole journey from the Tang capital of Chang’an all the way to India and then back. However‚ his sixteen years‚ ten thousand mile journey is a huge sacrifice that brought culture‚ religion‚ ideas‚ and various commodities together and connected China to the rest of the kingdoms to the west
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trouble with adapting to the new‚ “modern” changes that occurred within their community. However‚ with changes there can also be numerous favorable effects of such alterations. Some examples include a multitude of different ancient time periods. Time periods with such examples includes‚ the Hellenistic Age and the resistance to new and sudden beliefs‚ the new way of ruling during the Han Dynasty‚ and even new clothing
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By the end of the Iron Age‚ amongst other things‚ coinage had been introduced‚ wheel thrown pottery was being made‚ there was an increased interest in personal appearance‚ people had started to live in larger and more settled communities‚ and the mortuary rites of society had changed. 1050-750 BC EARLY PERIOD of GREECE - First Greek migration to west coast of Asia minor. Few written records of this time period remain. Also‚ this era is known as the Dark Ages of Greece. 850-700 BC Distinct regional
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CCOT From 100 C.E to 1000 C.E there were many changes along with continuities in the political and cultural life of the Chinese peoples. For example a big change in the political life of China was a series of nomadic invasions. A large continuity in bureaucracy may have changed just a little bit but it was always present in China. Through its history a big continuity in Chinese culture could be Confucianism. Even though Confucianism does not disappear‚ Buddhism becomes very popular when the
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what the other had to offer. The Silk Road was the most significant and important trade route for many hundreds of years‚ especially during the Tang dynasty. Although it is called the Silk Road‚ there was a variety of products and even ideas that were transported across the continents. The Silk Road saw many goods‚ such as silk and spices‚ travel from Europe to Asia and from Asia to Europe‚ and the route greatly influenced both the East and West. The Silk Road is said to have started in the 2nd
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built to honor the gods and assure their place in the afterlife. However‚ the major dissimilarity occurred in the process and scale of sacrifice‚ as well as the way of obtaining victims which greatly differed among the two cultures. The continuities and changes of both regions may be attributed to their relative geographic isolationism‚ with few outside forces affecting the religion of people in Mesoamerica. The Mayans and the Aztecs continually watched the stars as a way of predicting the future
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People along the Niger River created a distinctive city-based civilization. They were not encompassed in a larger imperial system. Nor were they like the city-states of ancient Mesopotamia‚ in which each city had its own centralized political structures‚ embodied in a monarch and his accompanying bureaucracy. They were “cities without citadels‚” complex urban centers that operated without the coercive authority of a state. Key Changes and/or Continuities in theme from
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