Track 11

Unit 6

History

The Silk Road

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Talk about the topic

Parts A and B

I’d heard of the silk Road before, but I had no idea it was so confident in my notes look like paid for my math book.

Right.

Mine too, so can we go over some of these states. I mean, I think I got the general idea - that China wanted goods from Europe, and Europe wanted goods from China and therefore the silk Road was developed.

Right, I have that the root was used from about 100 BC to 1400 CE.

So, it was in use for about 1800 years, it was about 5000 miles long altogether right. So, do you guys think the silk Road is famous because of the goods traded, or is it historic because of the cultural exchange that happened?

The Romans wanted luxury items from China right, especially the certain.

So, essentially, it was about trade, right?

Yeah, I mean that’s factually correct, but I think something deeper is going on. You know, I mean cultures were mixing.

Oh yeah, like Central Asian traders. They had a very important job like being a middleman.

Yeah. Exactly, without them the whole exchange of goods wouldn’t have happened.

It was probably a pretty dangerous job too, I mean, if you think about it they go out and communicate with people from different cultures with different languages and had exchange goods with them in the must’ve been pretty risky.

kind of like businesspeople today trying to make money and survive.

I guess not much is change the past 2000 years