The document discusses religion on the Silk Road. It introduces Buddhism and how it spread from India along the Silk Road during the Han Dynasty, with influential monks helping spread Buddhism to China between the 3rd-10th centuries. Islam also spread significantly along the Silk Road, with the Umayyad Caliphate based in Damascus and the Abbasid Empire's capital in Baghdad becoming important trade centers. By the 10th century, Islamic expansion disrupted trade and Buddhism declined. Christianity had less influence in China compared to Buddhism and Islam. The document also briefly mentions Manichaeism originating from the prophet Mani in 3rd century Persia.

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2. Our Presentation Topic is :
Religion on the Silk Road

3. THE SILK ROAD

4. SILK ROAD ?
The Silk Road or Silk Route was an ancient network of
trade routes that were central to cultural interaction
through regions of the Asian continent connecting
the West and East from China to the Mediterranean Se.
The Silk Road derives its name from the lucrative trade in
Chinese silk carried out along its length, beginning during
the Han dynasty (207 BCE – 220 CE)

6. Religion on the Silk Road
The Silk Road did not only promote commodity exchange
but also cultural. For example Buddhism and Islam are
the most significant religion in China and along the Silk
Road. Other religions such as Christianity and
Manichaen don't have as much influences as Buddhism
and Islam.

7. BUDDHISM
In the first century BC, Buddhism was
introduced into Yutian (Now Hetian). From there,
it quickly spread throughout the vast Western
Regions. It was not until the Eastern Han
Dynasty (25-220) that Buddhism infiltrated the
inland of China.

8. In the following centuries, many monks played
important roles in the development of Buddhism
in China. These included monks such as Zhu
Shixing in the Three Kingdoms (220-280)

9. FaXian and Kumrajva in the Jin Dynasty
(265-420)

10. Song Yun and Hui Sheng in the
Northern Dynasties (420-589)

11. Xuan Zang in the Tang Dynasty (618-907).
They traveled on the route to ancient India to
study sutras, contributed greatly to the
propagation of Buddhism.

12. ISLAM
By the Umayyad era Damascus had
overtaken Ctesiphon as a major trade center until
the Abbasid dynasty built the city of Baghdad, which
became the most important city along the silk road.

13. At the end of its glory, the routes brought about
the largest continental empire ever, the Mongol
Empire, with its political centers strung along the
Silk Road realizing the political unification of
zones previously loosely and intermittently
connected by material and cultural goods.

14. In Central Asia, Islam expanded from the 7th century
onward, bringing a stop to Chinese westward expansion
at the Battle of Talas in 751.

15. Further expansion of the Islamic Turks in
Central Asia from the 10th century finished
disrupting trade in that part of the world,
and Buddhism almost disappeared. For
much of the Middle Ages, the
Islamic Caliphate (centered in the Near
East) often had a monopoly over much of
the trade conducted across the Old World.

16. OTHER RELIGION ON SILK ROAD
Christianity
Christianity has lesser influence in the Silk Road than
Buddhism and Islam. Partly due to a low interest in
western culture, Chinese didn't pay a lot of attention to
Christianity. Additionally, it is politically insignificant to the
central Asia.

17. MANICHAEN
The name of Manichaen is come from a man
name Mani was born in 216 CE in Persian
Babylonia (modern day Iraq), into an ascetic
community of Judaized Christians (Christians
who continued strict observance of traditional
Jewish praxis)

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