1. The Silk Road A slideshow to accompany the article and lesson
“From Isolation to Globalization: Taking
the First Steps Along the Silk Road”
OCSS Review , Summer 2006

2. 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.

3. Viewing the Silk Road from Space

4. Beijing
X’ian
Dunhuang
Ksahgar
Samarkan
Merv
Antioch

5. Common “Silk Road” Routes

6. The Road Ahead: Begin Your Journey in China
West
East

7. Heading West from Beijing

8. Heading West from Beijing

9. Next Stop…X’ian
Beijing
X’ian

10. Looking West from X’ian

11. Looking West from X’ian

12. Next Stop…Dunhuang
Beijing
X’ian
Dunhuang

14. Mogao Caves Near Dunhuang

15. Keep Moving West to Kashgar
Beijing
X’ian
Dunhuang
Kashgar

16. Dunhuang to Kashgar: Go Around the Takla Makan Desert

17. …and Cross the Tien Shan Mountain Range

18. Arriving at Kashgar

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

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

21. 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!!!

22. The Road Ahead…

23. Plains and Mountain Ridges

24. Zagros Mountains

25. Your Final Hurdle to Antioch… the Sultan Mountain Range

26. Finally…Antioch