The Silk Road east meets west: how untold wonders, knowledge, and even death traveled the ancient world.(WORLD HISTORY)

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OBJECTIVE

Students should understand

* The Silk Road was a system of crucial trade routes by which goods such as silk, precious stones, and spices were spread, along with knowledge about distant peoples, throughout ancient Asia and Europe.

BACKGROUND

According to one legend, the first Romans to see silk were the general Marcus Crassus and his army in 53 B.C. While fighting the Parthians, they were both terrorized and amazed to see the opposing soldiers carrying banners of a strange material that shimmered in the brilliant sun and heat of the desert. Silk became ...

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