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The Silk Road
The story of one of the world's oldest and most historically important trade routes and its influences on the culture of China, Central Asia and the West The region separating China from Europe and Western Asia is not the most hospitable in the world. Much of it is taken up by the Taklimakan desert, one of the most hostile environments on our planet. There is very little vegetation, and almost no rainfall; sandstorms are very common, and have claimed the lives of countless people. The locals have a very great respect for this `Land of Death'; few travellers in the past have had anything good to say about it. It covers a vast area, through which few roads pass; caravans throughout history have skirted its edges, from one isolated oasis to the next.Athena Review 3,1: Buried Cities of Khotan: Chronology of the Silk Road
325 BC: Palmyra and Parthia reconquer Persia. After AD 220: Chinese control over Tarim Basin weakens as Hun invasions and local revolts widen; silk trade increasingly uses sea route but, 2 sites (Lou-lan and another near Niya River) provide evidence that the towns along the land route continued to trade and be influenced by East and West. 5th-6th c: Silk Road traffic increases along with Buddhist influence, with 2 million Buddhists in China by AD 514.
n Travel: The Ancient Sea Route between Rome and China
During the period between 250 BC and 250 AD, a maritime sea route existed between Alexandra in Northern Africa and China. As trade took place along this route, a number of kingdoms rose to power, flush with finances from trade. These kingdoms all came into being around the same time, and all waned around the same time. The map below illustrates the route.
Welcome to the Silk Road Society (UK)! The trade routes linking imperial Rome with remote China, known collectively as the Silk Roads, were once the greatest on earth. Many great men have undertaken travels along this intricate trade network and the Silk Roads have left an unparalleled imprint on the world's civilisations.
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Southeast Asia is a subregion of Asia, roughly be described as geographically situated east of east of the Indian subcontinent, south of China and north of Australia , between the Indian Ocean (in west) and the Pacific Ocean (in east). It consists of two distinctive different geographic regions, one is mainland Southeast Asia, also known as Indochina, on the Indochinese peninsula; it comprises the countries of Cambodia , Laos , Myanmar (Burma), Thailand , Vietnam and West Malaysia (Peninsular Malaysia), the other is the Malay Archipelago, or Maritime Southeast Asia, which comprises the countries of: Brunei (on the island of Borneo), East Malaysia (with the Malayan states of Sabah and Sarawak on the northern part of Borneo), all the islands of Indonesia , the Philippines , Singapore and Timor-Leste (East Timor). Southeast Asia together with the Indian subcontinent and lowland southern China forms the Indomalaya ecozone, one of the eight great ecozones that cover the Earth's land surface.
Map of South-East Asia - Nations Online Project
This exhibit was organized as part of Silk Road Seattle , a collaborative public education project exploring cultural interaction across Eurasia from the first century BCE to the sixteenth century CE. Silk Road Seattle is sponsored by the Walter Chapin Simpson Center for the Humanities at the University of Washington. Images of art objects are provided through the kind cooperation of museums and photographers around the world.
Silk Road Seattle Virtual Art Exhibit
Great Silk Road During the 6-14th century, there were thousands of large and small routes that crossed Asian Continent leading to the West. Caravans followed these routes and each was filled with exotic clothes, eastern goods and spices. These routes raised the Great Silk Road .
Silk Road: Map, Trade, History of Silk Road.
Silk Road Seattle is an ongoing public education project using the "Silk Road" theme to explore cultural interaction across Eurasia from the beginning of the Common Era (A. D.) to the Seventeenth Century. Our principal goal is to provide via the Internet materials for learning and teaching about the Silk Road. Much is available here already: historical texts, well illustrated web pages on historic cities and architecture and on traditional culture of the Central Asian nomads, extensive annotated bibliographies of resources, an electronic atlas, and a stunning virtual art exhibit drawing on museum collections from around the world.
Silk Road Seattle
The Silk Road Project
Video and photos from our Asia tour, teaching artist visits in Silk Road Connect classrooms, upcoming concerts and more in our most recent newsletter .
T he Silk Road is a great East to West trade route and vehicle for cross-culture exchange started in the second century BC. It was first traveled by the adventure of Zhang Qian started the journey to the far West for the political contact with Yuezhi, a nomadic tribe, in 138 BC. But, it was only in 1870s that the geographer, Ferdinand von Richthofen gave the name by which we now know as the Silk Road. The general Zhang Qian was sent by Emperor Wudi of the Han Dynasty (206 BC- AD 220) to recruit the Yuezhi, who were the enemies of the Xiongnu in the second century BC. As Yuezhi tribe, Xiongnu was also a nomadic group who attempted to invade the Kansu province of Han Dynasty. Because the Xiongnu could not be restrained with any lasting effects, Emperor Wu decided to look for an alliance with Yuezhi who had been defeated by their enemies Xiongnu and driven to the Ili valley, the western fringes of the Taklamakan Desert.
Silk Road - Introduction
This mailing list provides a world-wide electronic forum for exchange of scholarly and factual information on the history, geography, anthropology and logistics of traditional communication, movement, and transportation networks of the world. The list was established on 30 April 2000 by the Old World Trade Routes (OWTRAD) Project (www.ciolek.com/owtrad.html). The list has a special focus on research and construction of accurate, correctable and interoperable geo/chrono-referenced electronic data-sets describing known land, river and maritime trade and pilgrimage routes of Eurasia and Africa between 10,000 BCE and approx. 1820 CE (i.e. from the end of the Ice Age till the revolution in transport caused by the steam-engine technology). However, other foci, as well as other geographical and historical contexts are also given due attention.
Old World Trade Routes (OWTRAD) Project
Gittaohan is a collaboration Project group comprising people of mixed nations that promotes an international message of peace and sensibility. We research and share this message on multiple levels: These are issue we in the Gittaohan project feel very strongly about and we are constantly researching to open relations with other people with compassion, knowledge and interest to build the consciousness of this way of life.
Gittaohan Nomadic Camel Caravan
We started the collection and dissemination of data about the Citadel of Bam, Iran which was almost completely destroyed by the Iranian Earthquake on December 2003. A Web site that summarizes outreach activities of the project is released (in Japanese). At this moment, the outreach activity focuses on Senga Silk Road . Bam3DCG On the 5th anniversary of Bam earthquake, the Website for disseminating the outcome of research is released, in addition to the existing website, Citadel of Bam, Iran .
Digital Silk Road - Digital Archives of Cultural Heritage
From the Aga Khan Development Network press release: " Geneva, Switzerland, 26 April 2012 -- The Aga Khan Award for Architecture, considered by many architects and urban planners to be the most important award for architecture, has announced a doubling of its prize to US$ 1 million. On the occasion of the announcement, His Highness the Aga Khan remarked that the doubling of the Award is meant to assist and support the recipients, many of whom are neither well-known nor well-funded. "One of the important aspects of the Award," he said, "is that winners should be able to reposition their future with the support they get from the Award, both professionally and institutionally." The Aga Khan Award for Architecture is given every three years to projects that set new standards of excellence in architecture, planning practices, historic preservation and landscape architecture. The next prize will be awarded in 2013.