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The Silk Road - Coggle Diagram
The Silk Road
Items traded from east to west
Silk
Silk was the biggest item traded on the silk road. That's how it got its name.
China was the only country that knew how to make silk so it was valuable. The Romans loved the silk and paid a lot of gold for it. This made Rome ban silk because they had no gold left.
Other items traded were: fine dishware, ornaments, jewelry, cast-iron products, and decorative boxes, horses, jade, furs, gold, cotton, spices, pearls, and ivory.
Information exchanged along the silk road
Civilizations learned from each other
Both China and the West learned how to make each others product around the same time.
The West learned how to make silk and the East learned how to shape glass.
New Ideas
Diets, gardening, and agricultural ideas/planets all spread on the silk road.
Foods and spices also spread throughout Europe and Asia.
Dangers on the silk road in the east
Deserts
The silk road in the east had many deserts that caravans had to cross.
Sandstorms in the deserts was the main reason how people died.
Attackers
Thieves would often steal the items people were trading. That is one of the reasons people traveled in groups so things wouldn't get stolen.
Mirages
Mirages are optical illusions that would confuse travels and it caused many deaths.
Dangers on the silk road in the west
Mountains
Many traders got headaches and felt dizzy when going through the mountains due to the lack of oxygen.
Narrow and Dangerous
One part of the silk road in the mountains was called the trail of bones because so many animals and people died there.
Wild Animals
Lions, tigers, scorpions, and flies all attacked travels on the silk road on the west side.
Cultural Exchanges made along the silk road
Religion
Staring in India Buddium made its way to China and became the main religion.
Islam began in the Arabian Peninsula and made it into South Asia where it made a new religion called Sikhism.
Languages
Language spread on the silk road because traders had to communicate with people from other civilizations.
Sanskrit and Prakrit were some of the languages that spread on the silk road.
Items traded from west to east
Other items traded from Egypt, Arabia, and Persia were: Perfumes, cosmetics, carpets, metal items, dyes, are slaves.
Rome
Rome loved China's silk so they would trade lots of gold, glass products like vases, necklace, and trays.
Diseases spread along the silk road
Different places carry different diseases
When people travel they can get very sick because their immune system isn't used to the germs at that place.
Bubonic plague, leprosy, and anthrax
These were some of the diseases that spread. Bubonic plague also known as black death killed 25 million Europeans.