Moving trade goods along the ancient Silk Roads was made difficult by the fierce climatic ... and who would be interested in purchasing this product. What are possible road blocks, and how can you ...

Students will explore elements of trade along the Silk Roads by examining the products of various locations along the route--production, influences of resources and environment, challenges of ...

Oil replaced many commodities once traded along the Silk Road ... where kingdoms of middlemen grew rich, the Silk Road’s goods flowed radially in all directions. North to the Russian principalities.

Ancient traders faced challenges and devised solutions that, surprisingly, resemble some of the practices used by modern ...

During the Han dynasty, Chinese ships traded with Southeast Asian kingdoms. During the 7th and 8th centuries, Chinese, Korean and Japanese ships crossing the East China Sea and the Sea of Japan ...

Chinese silk goods were traded to the West along the Silk Road. As contacts between the East and West increased, Buddhism spread to China in the first century. In 105, an official named Cai Lun ...

Two cities have been found in Central Asia along what was formerly the Silk Road ... of ancient trade routes between Europe and Asia that "facilitated the exchange of goods and ideas between ...

The Silk Road was an online marketplace where more than 100,000 users traded illegal drugs and other illegal goods while laundering hundreds of millions of dollars, according to the Justice ...