Erhu Introduction The Silk Road played an irreplaceable role in connecting China with Central and Inner Asia. It was not just a trade route‚ but was also important for the diffusion of art and religious beliefs along the trade routes. One of the important cultural exchanges took place through music. Music transcends linguistic differences. Music is integral to many human cultures‚ and it is likely that travelers would sing a song or play instruments while travelling on the Silk Road for entertainment
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Manila Galleon or “Nap de China” was the first route to sail through the Pacific Ocean as a link between Asia and America. Through this route‚ and after having colonized Philippines‚ Spain controlled this commercial route for almost three centuries‚ uniting Seville‚ Philippines and Mexico. • The Manila-Acapulco galleon trade began when the Augustinian friar‚ Andrés de Urdaneta‚ sailing in convoy under Miguel López de Legazpi‚ discovered a return route from Cebu City to Mexico in 1565. • The galleon
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1. History of road By about 30.000 BC convenient routes were being well used by human travelers. The first human pathways would have developed for very specific purposes leading to campsites‚ food‚ water‚ ford across streams‚ passes trough mountains and routes through swamps and past dangerous area. The first record is of a cobblestone paving in Assyria in about 4000 BC. The oldest extant road was constructed trough the mountains of Crete‚ from Knossus to Leben in about 2000 BC. It could have
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Marco Polo - In the late 13th century‚ Marco Polo left his home in Venice‚ and eventually traveled for many years in China. He was accompanied by his father and uncle‚ who were merchants anxious to stimulate trade between Venice along the trade routes east. Polo met the Chinese ruler Kublai Khan (Genghis Khan’s grandson)‚ who was interested in his travel stories and convinced him to stay as an envoy to represent him in different parts of China. He served the khan for 17 years before returning
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Although the Mongol’s political influence on the Chinese was much more significant than it was on the Russians‚ the Mongols actually had more influence on Russia than it did on China‚ who was under Mongol influence for centuries. Economically‚ the Mongols had an extensive effect on both China and Russia. China‚ which lies directly south Mongolia‚ was ruled directly by the Mongols. Russia‚ on the other hand‚ had little to offer to the Mongols as Russia is a cold and resource-poor country. So
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Aztecs farmed on floating man-made islands called chinampas that utilized soil from the lake bed to produce multiple harvests per year. The Han were great silk cultivators. They picked and processed some of the finest silk in the Eurasian continent. It was traded along trade routes that led all the way to the Mediterranean‚ which were called the “Silk Roads”. Both the Han and the Aztecs had central belief systems. The Aztecs believed that the gods had set the world in motion through acts of individual
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The Mongols ruled China and Russia‚ yet the effect of their rule in China and Russia‚ while in some ways similar‚ was quite different‚ politically and economically. Genghis Khan‚ born in the 1770s‚ was elected khagan (a title of imperial rank) of all Mongol tribes in 1206. Kubilai Khan‚ Genghis Khan’s grandson‚ was the commander of the Mongol forces responsible for the conquest of China; he became khagan in 1260. Kubilai Khan founded the Yuan Dynasty. Batu‚ the ruler of the Golden Horde of the dynasty
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in India were seen as sacred and worshipped so religiously that it actually became India’s national bird; hence‚ the killing of the animal was forbidden (Nair 19). The Mayuri fiddle came to exist through an exchange of stringed instruments along the Silk Road and was incorporated with the highly valued peacock‚ this instrument allowed for the Mayuri to be of great significance and was seen as a novelty item instead of a customary instrument (Clark 116). The Mayuri fiddle is an example of cultural hybridization
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pieces of many other cultures. One culture in particular that has had an effect on many Americans is the Chinese culture. China’s long history has seen some extremely important inventions emerge‚ most noticeably gunpowder‚ paper making‚ compass‚ and silk. Few substances in history have had as profound an effect on human history as gunpowder... and its discovery was an accident! Ancient alchemists in China spent centuries trying to discover an elixir of life that would render the
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Mongol Empire. In addition to toleration and military techniques‚ a major factor contributing to the success of the Mongol Empire was their control over the Silk Roads. Golden suggests that the Mongol Empire was able to expand through the control of trade routes‚ leading further to their significant success. The Mongol control over the Silk Roads allowed the Mongols to control wealth and expansion of land‚ ideas and influence. Although the Mongol Empire came to an end in the fourteenth century‚ it
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