1. Trade and Exchange in the Ancient World
Asian Art Museum

2. What do these pictures have in common?
Photo: Natalie Maynor, Flickr Creative Commons

3. What do you think are the pros and cons of land travel?
Yanguan Pass Into the Desert. Photo by Douglas Tilden, 2005 and Tian Shan Mountains.

4. What do you think are the pros and cons of sea travel?
Reconstruction of the Jewel of Muscat.
Concretion of ceramics from the Hoi An shipwreck, approx Oceanic sediment, pottery, stone, antler, and shell. Northern Vietnam. Asian Art Museum, Acquisition made possible by Betty and Bruce Alberts, Will and June Arney Roadman, Annie and Cameron Dorsey, Jean and Lindsay MacDermid, Rhoda Stuart Mesker, and Ann Witter ,

5. SILK ROAD MAP 300 BCE-100 CE
1. Draw in and label the following mountain ranges and deserts.
2. Then, map your route from Xi’an to Antioch.
Mountain Ranges
Himalayas
Caucasus
Zagros
Tian Shan
Deserts
Gobi
Tacht-e-Kavir (Iranian Plateau)
Tacht-e-Lut (Iranian Plateau)
12/6/2018

6. What route did you take? Did you travel by land or sea?