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What is the Silk Road?
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World History Encyclopedia: Silk Road
Interactive Map: Cities Along the Silk Road
Once you're in the map, click on the red dots to see the information.
National Geographic: Silk Road Library
For more than 1,500 years, the network of routes known as the Silk Road contributed to the exchange of goods and ideas among diverse cultures.
UNESCO: About the SIlk Roads
BBC Podcast: The Silk Road
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Silk Road, the trade routes which spanned Asia for over a thousand years, carrying Buddhism to China and paper-making and gunpowder westward
Khan Academy: Silk Road
Overview with guiding questions
Ducksters: Silk Road
HISTORY: The Silk Road
Take a Journey
Information about major cities along the route
Silk Road for Kids
SilkRoad com
a website covering multiple aspects of the silk road
Trading Silk for Horses: Origins of the Sillk Road
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Crash Course: Silk Road
Silk Road: Connecting the World Through Trade
Early Years
Chinese Silk Road, Part 1
Part 2 here
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