For centuries the Silk Road has served as a connector between empires‚ countries‚ and cities all over the world. The outposts and cities along the Silk Road became the melting pot of race‚ culture‚ and religion. Transculturations between countries were becoming more frequent throughout the world‚ while Normal citizens‚ travelers‚ explorers‚ and scholars of the Silk Road experienced it first hand. Scholars such as Pratt and Clifford theorized transculturation through documents of modern European
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1450 C.E. the Silk Road’s interaction patterns changed with the Black Plague and the religious exchange between China and the West. However‚ the continuity was maintained with its main purpose of trading goods passed along its routes. Flea bites from rats would infect the Black Plague along merchants and consumers throughout Eurasia which caused a decline in the economy. During the Middle Ages ships would stop at various points such as Turkey‚ Lebanon‚ and Iraq that are along the Silk Road. People
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new age. Spider silk is the key to this project. Its strength is very important. Its stickiness helps catch prey. The production of silk is very important. First‚ strength of silk. Second‚ the stickiness of silk. Last‚ the production of silk. The strength of silk can keep bugs from breaking through. It also prevents them from falling down. The strength of it also prevents snapping randomly. Dragline silk consists of proteins called spidroins. These are made in the spider’s silk glands as a thick
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History of silk Silk‚ one of the oldest fibers known to man‚ originated in China. The history of silk is both enchanting and illustrious. Following sections cover the various facets of silk history. [For general silk information‚ please visit the All About Silk section‚ which covers various related subjects‚ such as Advantages of Silk‚ Cleaning Silk‚ How Silk is Made‚ Silk Info Dictionary‚ and Interesting Facts about Silk.] The Legend The Silk Road A Well-Kept Secret Sericulture
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Silk - the queen of all fabrics is historically one of India’s most important industries. India produces a variety of silks called Mulberry‚ Tasar‚ Muga and Eri‚ based on the feeding habit of the cocoons. The sericulture industry today employs over 700‚000 farm families and is mostly concentrated in Karnataka‚ Tamilnadu and Andhra Pradesh and to some extent Assam and West Bengal. Karnataka accounts for more than 70 percent of the country’s total silk production. Sericulture is one industry which
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The Silk Route is a convenient name for the Trans Asia trade routes. At one point it was viewed as a road along which silk from China was brought to Turkey and sold to Europeans. That is an overly simplistic and not terribly realistic view. It was not a single road but a number of interconnecting Caravan Routes over which trade was conducted. Additionally Sericulture only dates back a few thousand years the Silk Route is much older. The Silk Road: Linking Europe and Asia Through Trade The Silk
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Silk-road was at one time the top Cyber-black market in the game. An educated college graduate‚ Ross Ulbricht is accused of creating Silk Road. The website sold everything from illegal drugs‚ guns‚ porn‚ driver’s licenses and other illegal services. It was estimated that the website generated amounts of 1.2 million in sales. An FBI agent was quoted saying “ Silk Road was the most sophisticated and extensive criminal marketplace on the internet today”. The website used an underground computer
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Continuities and Change over Time in the Silk Road The Silk Route is a convenient name for the Trans Asia trade routes. At one point it was viewed as a road along which silk from China was brought to Turkey and sold to Europeans. That is an overly simplistic and not terribly realistic view. It was not a single road but a number of interconnecting Caravan Routes over which trade was conducted. The Silk route dates back at least 5500 years where as silk only dates back about three thousand years
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The Silk Road was a trade network the connected the East to the West on the Eurasian continent. This trade included both overland and maritime routes. The central Asian kingdoms and peoples became the nexus point for much of this trade which lasted from the 3rd century B.C.E. to the 15th century C.E. Many products and other cultural expressions moved along the Silk Road and diffused among various kingdoms along it. In breaking down and separating the patterns of interaction that occurred along the
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century‚ the Silk Road boosted the world’s economy‚ assisted the sharing of ideas and knowledge for a smarter and more connected world‚ but also ended up destroying lives through the spread of diseases‚ making it a very dynamic period (both time and place) in history. Not only did the Silk Road give the rich something to spend their money on other than temples‚ the Silk Road provided a source of income to many people in Africa and Eurasia such as silk weavers (who couldn’t afford to buy silk themselves
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