Dandan-Oilik was once a thriving complex packed with Buddhist temples in the Taklimakan desert. What do we know now about ...

With Google Earth, Google maps (or similar mapping program) projected for the class to see, review the various routes and tremendous extent of the Silk Roads with students ... What are possible road ...

The word map will act as a writing tool for ... was transmitted from India through Central Asia and into China by monks traveling with merchants and diplomats along the Silk Road routes. Monks carried ...

Musical forms and instruments traveled the Silk Road. String, wind, and percussion instruments from both East and West influenced each other. A five-stringed lute from India and four-stringed lutes ...

Hindu warriors attacked him in India. He survived, though stripped of his fine robes. Xuanzang, a seventh-century Chinese Buddhist monk, walked thousands of miles of the Silk Road, crossing the ...

"This map which people continue to reproduce in book after book of what is said to be the Silk Road... bypasses India," said Dalrymple, challenging the conventional understanding of the Silk Road ...

referencing the Silk Road, Buddhism, Gupta Empire, Cholan Empire, astronomy, mathematics, Vasco da Gama, and the British East India Company. Discuss the Part 1 assignment and use the provided ...