1. By the time you are done viewing this PowerPoint and using the text pages , you should be able to answer the following:
What do you remember about Zoroastrianism and what empire made it their official belief system by c. 224 CE?
How did this impact their relations with the neighboring Byzantine Empire?
Who were the Nestorians and why were they significant to the spread of Christianity?
What belief systems spread along the Silk Road and how did it contribute to a cosmopolitan feel at the various entrepots??
Be sure to answer the questions that appear on the subsequent slides too!

2. Look at the maps to determine the official faith of each empire.
How do you think that affected the politics between each empire?

3. Where does it appear that Nestorian Christianity emerged?
How would the Byzantine Church regard its development? What was the impact? Where did the missions spread to? How did the Sassanid government respond?

4. Buddha Statues Along the Silk Road
Several Buddha statues in Western China constructed in 493BCE.
Bamiyan Buddha Statue built in 500CE; modern day Afghanistan

5. How big are these statues?
The video may not work…it’s ok :\

6. What happened?