The Silk Road

1. Location The silk road is located on 12.9172425oN and 77.6229568oE (http://www.distancesfrom.com/silkroad-latitude-longitude-silk-road-latitude-silk-roadlongitude/LatLongHistory/758008.aspx)

http://blogs.yis.ac.jp/17tsaim/2011/05/25/humanitiesreflection-silk-road/ 2. Place The Western Silk road has the Caspian Sea to the North, Mediterranean Sea to the West, the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf to the South. It also crosses Mesopotamia. The Eastern Silk Road has the Great Wall to the North. It also goes through the Huang He and the Indus River.

http://www.chinatrekking.com/routes/the-silk-road 3. Region

A man named Zhang Quian is considered by some to be the father of the Silk Road. Many stops are in the middle of the Silk Road that many people traded at.

http://www.mirutadelaseda.com/page/2/ 4. Movement

The Silk Road is where China traded items such as fine dishware (china) and silk with places like Rome who traded things like glassware and gold. They mostly rode on Camel which is good for travel across the desert and can hold enough water to get to the next stop without going and starving or parched.

http://www.brackers.com/909camel/ 5. Interaction

The traders that traveled across the Silk Road used camels because they could carry large quantities of items without consuming much water or food. The bandits who lived in the deserts had to adapt to the harsh deserts by robbing the traders who traveled along the route.

http://chinatravelgo.com/silk-road-travel/