1. Networks of
Communication and
Exchange
The Silk Road
300 B.C.E. – 1100 C.E.
Map of Silk Road Origins and Operations
Overland route that linked China to
the Mediterranean world via
Mesopotamia, Iran, and Central Asia.
Two periods of heavy use:
150 B.C.E. – 907 C.E.
Thirteenth through seventeenth
centuries C.E.
Regular large-scale trade needed to
provide Chinese with western
products.
Imports and Exports Impac