From Silk to Oil: Cross-Cultural Connections Along the Silk Roads

Abstract:

This is a curriculum guide for exploring China's inner Asian frontier and one of the world's oldest and most important trade routes. The 350-page guide features five independent sections. Each examines the geography, ethnic relations and political history, exchange of goods and ideas, religions, or art along the Silk Roads (beginning in the second century BCE). Each includes lesson plans, documents, maps, and board game.

Subject:

Humanities, Social Sciences

Grade Level:

Secondary

Collection:

China Institute