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How did the Silk Road enable Extensive Cultural Diffusion?
World of Trade How did the Silk Road enable Extensive Cultural Diffusion?
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Silk Road Trade Traded goods such as spices, silks, porcelains, etc.
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Silk Road Trade
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Xi’an (Chang’an) one of the biggest cities in the world
a center of international trade. Silk Road started here
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Dunhuang
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Gobi Desert
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Taklamakan Desert
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Spread of Buddhism
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Samarkand Fruit markets Oasis of Ismail (a Muslim ruler) = garden city
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Baghdad Means “east gate”
Was the largest city in the world in the year 900 Was a center of learning for the Muslim world
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Damascus Caravans One of the starting points of the silk road
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Byzantium/ Constantinople/Istanbul
End/beginning = starting point for the European market = very wealthy
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World Travellers Marco Polo – known for his travels across China and his accounts of Kublai Khan
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World Travellers Ibn Battuta – a world renowned traveller who journeyed across North Africa, through the Middle East (Southwest Asia) and reached China
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World Travellers Xuanzang – A Chinese Buddhist monk who travelled through China, to India compiling Buddhist texts
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