Earth and its Peoples 4th Edition Chapter 6 Outline
Subject:
World History [1]
Chapter 6
Network Communication and Trade
- Silk Road connected China and the Middle East across Central Asia
- Exchange of goods, manufactured products, and ideas
Silk Road
- Trade route that linked the lands of the Mediterranean with China by way of Mesopotamia, Iran, and Central Asia
- Parthians- People originally from the east of the Caspian Sea
- Zhang Jian- Traveled across inner Asia on behalf of the Han Dynasty. He reached the fertile valley or Ferghana. He found a river that ran westward and was declared the originator of overland trade with the western lands.
- Romans gained crops from Chinese
- Nomads provided meat, milk and clothes made of leather, felt and furs
The Sasanid Empire, 224-600
- In Iran
- Farmers pioneered in planting crops