Ancient traders faced challenges and devised solutions that, surprisingly, resemble some of the practices used by modern startup founders. Here are three strategies employed by Silk Road traders and ...

Students will explore elements of trade ... Silk Roads • Students will gain and understanding of trade dynamic of the Silk Roads 1. With Google Earth, Google maps (or similar mapping program) ...

Students will explore elements of trade ... a Silk Roads map made of construction paper with the names of key cities--Chang'an (modern-day Xi'an), Turfan, Kashgar, Ferghana, aBaghdad, Damascus, Rome ...

In his writings, Polo noted Khotan’s wealth as an outpost on the Silk Road, the route that once carried trade between China and the Mediterranean world. On January 14, 1896, a caravan left from ...

But many others walked the old Silk Road. Ibn Battuta, the tireless Arab traveler, spent three decades roaming the East from Morocco along branches of the trade route. Hindu warriors attacked him ...

It is, therefore, no surprise that a new international trade route called ‘the Arctic Silk Road’ is getting a lot of attention. The Arctic Silk Road is a £240 billion megaproject led by ...

The Polar route is rapidly becoming ... China's development of the Polar Silk Road, two things are sure. First, it won't make much difference to the structure of global trade.

Nineteenth-century geographers imagined the Silk Road ... a world map from Cairo, and Abbasid ceramics adopting the Tang ...