What is the Silk Road? Who used it and why? When did it began its use? When it stopped? What where the problems people face in the Silk Road?

1. THE SILK ROAD
Name: Herrera María José
Class: 7th “C”
Date: Wednesday, December 3th,
2014

2. What is the Silk Road?
• The Silk Road
was a network of
trade routes
between Asia and
Europe that
extended from
Chang'an in
China, Antioch
in Syria and
Constantinople
in Turkey, to the
gates of Europe.
• The name "Silk
Road" is due to
the more
prestigious
merchandise
circulating in it,
silk, whose
production was a
secret that only
the Chinese
knew.
• This site
covers a
stretch of
5,000 miles
and gave
people the
opportunity
to exchange
goods and
culture.

4. Who used the silk road and why?
By the Silk Road merchants circulated with goods from
all kingdoms, among the many products transiting
were: silk, stones, gold, silver, precious metals, fabrics of
wool or linen, amber, ivory, lacquer, spices, glass,
manufactured materials, coral, porcelain, etc.
Soldiers, philosophers, thieves and Indian
B Budhist missionaries who brought the
t teachings of the Buddha from India to
ina. China.

5. When did it begin its use? Until
When They used it?
• It began to be used in century II before
Christ, the general and Chinese explorer
Zhang Qian opened the way to India.
• It stopped to be used around 1453,
because of conflicts in Asia like the
fall of the Mongol Empire, and
conflicts in Europe like the War of
100 years . Also was no longer the
secret of the process of sericulture.

6. • The environment along the Silk
Road suffered much destruction
and many cities are sunk into a
sea of sand.
• People started having the option
of the sea to reach your
destination.

7. What Were the problems or
danger people faced in the silk
road?
• One of the dangers of using silk road is that
because as it was cliffs and glaciers, camels
were those who carried the precious cargo
and food fell and they lost everything.
Almost 80% of the route there were no trees;
only ice, snow, sand and glaciers.
• Another danger was that some caravans were
attacked by ferocious bands of murderers, that
to get the goods did not hesitate to kill.

8. By the Silk Road could pass diseases
and infections. Travelers helped
bacteria, virus, etc would spread in
populations that have not inherited or
acquired immunity to certain diseases.
As an epidemic could be very serious.

9. Video of the silk road