The Earth and Its Peoples 3rd Edition Silk Road
Subject:
World History [1]
1. Products: a.) going from east to west on the Silk Road b.) going from west to east on the Silk Road a.) silk, peaches, apricots, cotton, sugar cane, rice, citrus, egg plants, and other crops from India and China b.) alfalfa, wine grapes, horses, pistachios, walnuts, pomegranates, sesame, coriander, spinach, jasmine oil, oak galls, sal ammoniac, copper oxides, zinc, cinnamon, and ginger. 2. Why can the Silk Road be described as a social system rather than simply a transportation route and what were some of the technological advances the Silk Road was responsible for?