The Silk Roads: Trade, Ideas, and Empires
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The overland and maritime networks that connected Eurasia and Africa for millennia.
10 content steps
4 quizzes
~210 minutes
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Origins of the Silk Roads and key routes
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Han China, Kushan, Parthia, and Rome links
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Caravans, ports, and merchant diasporas
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Buddhism, Islam, and cultural diffusion
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Commodities: silk, spices, and precious goods
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Technologies and knowledge in motion
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Mongol Empire and intensified exchanges
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The Black Death and demographic change
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Maritime routes in the Indian Ocean
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Early modern shifts and new sea powers
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