文档介绍：SILK ROAD
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CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
CLASSIC SILK ROAD
HISTORY
SIGNIFICANCE
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INTRODUCTION
The Silk Road, or Silk Route, is a series of trade and cultural transmission routes that were central to cultural interaction through regions of the Asian continent connecting West and East by linking traders, merchants, pilgrims, monks, soldiers, nomads and urban dwellers from China to the Mediterranean Sea during various periods of time.
INTRODUCTION
The Silk Road gets its name from the lucrative Chinese silk trade, a major reason for the connection of trade routes into an extensive work.
So, some scholars prefer the term "Silk Routes" because the road included an work of routes.
CLASSIC SILK ROAD
HISTORY
Precursors
Hellenistic era
Opening of the Silk Road
Roman Empire
Medieval
Mongol age
Disintegration
Re-establishment
Modern day
Chinese exploration of central Aisa
Precursors
The Tarim mummies, mummies of non-Mongoloid, apparently Caucasoid, individuals, have been found in the Tarim Basin, in the area of Loulan located along the Silk Road 200 kilometres (124 miles) east of Yingpan, dating to as early as 1600 BC and suggesting very ancient contacts between East and West.
Hellenistic era
Probable Greek soldier in the Sampul tapestry, woollen wall hanging, 3rd–2nd century BC.
Coin depicting the Greco-Bactrian king Euthydemus (230–200 BC).
Chinese exploration of Central Asia
Woven silk textile from Tomb No. 1 at Mawangdui, Changsha, Hunan province, China, dated to the Western Han Era, 2nd century BC.
A pottery horse head and neck (broken from the body) of the Late Han Dynasty (1st–2nd century AD).