The Silk Road. Slideshow overview This slideshow is designed to Illustrate the physiographic features at various points along the Silk Road(s). Provide.

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The Silk Road

Slideshow overview This slideshow is designed to Illustrate the physiographic features at various points along the Silk Road(s). Provide oblique angle digital illustrations from Google Earth along with ground-level photographs of those locations. Together, these should give students a better sense of the challenges faced by travelers. Take the viewer on a journey from east to west along one common route of the Silk Road. Google Earth is available for free at Google Earth provides you the opportunity to mark and label any place on a globe draw routes between places Produce “fly by” videos of a route at various angles and altitudes. Display physiographic features of a location or set of locations, drawn from satellite imagery.

Viewing the Silk Road from Space

Beijing X’ian Dunhuang KsahgarSamarkan Merv Antioch

Common “Silk Road” Routes

The Road Ahead: Begin Your Journey in China West East

Heading West from Beijing

Next Stop…X’ian Beijing X’ian

Looking West from X’ian

Next Stop…Dunhuang Beijing X’ian Dunhuang

Mogao Caves Near Dunhuang

Keep Moving West to Kashgar Beijing X’ian Dunhuang Kashgar

Dunhuang to Kashgar: Go Around the Takla Makan Desert

…and Cross the Tien Shan Mountain Range

Arriving at Kashgar

Beijing X’ian Dunhuang Kashgar Merv Now…On to Merv

Kashgar to Merv: More Deserts and Mountains Bactrian Desert Pamirs Ancient Merv

Your Journey So Far: You have traveled over 3,000 difficult miles You have crossed the Takla Makan Desert, the Tien Shan Mountain Range, passed through territories of hostile warriors, crossed the Pamir Mountains and the Bactrian Desert. Only 1,532 miles to go!!!

The Road Ahead…

Plains and Mountain Ridges

Zagros Mountains

Your Final Hurdle to Antioch… the Sultan Mountain Range

Finally…Antioch

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