Sericulture‚ or silk farming‚ is the rearing of silkworms for the production of raw silk. Although there are several commercial species of silkworms‚ Bombyx mori is the most widely used and intensively studied. According to Confucian texts‚ the discovery of silk production byB. mori dates to about 2700 BC‚ although archaeological records point to silk cultivation as early as the Yangshao period (5000 – 3000 BCE).[1] About the first half of the 1st century AD it had reached ancient Khotan‚[2] and
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Exchanges on the Silk Roads After the fall of the Mauryas‚ the Kushan kingdom became the main political force in northern India. They were located across the main trade routes‚ and the Kushans prospered on the trade that was happening in that area. That area of trade and exchange was known as the Silk Road. The Silk Road was a trade route located between the Roman Empire and China‚ which also had a section that passed through the mountains northwest of India. From that area‚ goods where shipped
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"Silk Roads or Steppe Roads? The Silk Roads in World History" The main focus‚ or thesis‚ of this article was similar to the likes of Andre Gunder Frank and Barry Gills; that the trans-civilizational and‚ less understood‚ trans-ecological exchanges along the Silk Road linked all regions of the Afro-Eurasian landmass- agrarian civilizations‚ the woodland communities to the north and steppe pastoralists- into a single "world-system" of trade that is several millennia old. Among these exchanges across
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The Silk Road opened many doors for the spreading of ideas‚ goods and culture. Through the Silk Road many cultures were able to advance through new ideas from their partnered civilizations. These new ideas helped the civilizations of the classical period prosper for long periods of time. Goods were traded along the Silk Road from all over the world. In doc. 1 it shows that silk spread from China to Rome. In doc. 4 the necklace was made of pearls possibly from India and was traded to China from
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Silk Road was a merchants’ heaven and a consumers’ dream. A place wherecultural diffusion was a natural occurrence and different rich cultures could both spread and blend with freedom and prosperity. This global marketplace was took hundreds of years tostart and played a major factor our cultural past. Due to the combination of people‚ products‚ideas‚ and modes of transit‚ the first global marketplace was able to widely spread differentcultural ideas‚ beliefs‚ and lifestyles across Europe and Asia
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During 1492 to 1750‚ the Columbian Exchange had demographic and environmental effects on the New World and Old World had similar yet different effects on each other. Effects were how the Old World and New World brought plants and animals to each other and made different uses with them‚ but also had different effects on there population. Different effects on the Old and New World made both have different outcomes with their population and way of life. When the Old World brought to the New World
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Silk | | Canadian Telecom & Cable Services | February 20‚ 2012 | | Outlook - Industry looks promising due to increase in data demand‚ our opinion is to invest in select companies in this industry | Highlights | * Volatilities in the market encouraged investors to continue to invest in safe dividend paying shares in 2011. Telecom and Cable sector’s strong and consistent cash flows intrigued investors to buy those stocks and consequently‚ telecom & cable stocks posted very
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There are many different circulation routes throughout our bodies that help our body stay functioning right. One of these major circulation routes is the fetal circulation route. The fetal circulation route is the route in which the blood flows from mother to fetus. It often uses the entire fetoplacential circulation which includes the umbilical cord‚ and the vessels within the placenta that carries the fetal blood. Basically the placenta is doing the work that the baby’s lungs will do after it is
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everyday whether it is from the advertisements on television‚ or the towering billboards we drive past‚ persuasion is unavoidable. There are two routes to persuasion: the central route and the peripheral route. They both differ from each other and have their own distinct processes that control the way in which people are persuaded. The central route to persuasion requires people to actively think about the message being presented. People are usually interested in the topic and consider it to
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trans-Saharan and Silk Road trade routes were global trade routes that shaped and impacted their respective areas during the Iron Age. The trans-Saharan and Silk Road both used similar methods of trade because of technological innovation and environmental interactions of the time. The trans-Saharan and Silk road trade routes lead to different cultural diffusion due to the difference in diversity among the ethnic groups in Asia‚ Africa‚ the Middle East‚ and Europe. Both the Trans-Saharan and Silk Road relied
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