After the Fact Interactive: Tracing the Silk Roads

by Bentley

This module invites students to explore the historiography and sources of the Silk Roads, the most important zone of cross-cultural encounter during the classical period. Far from isolated pockets of civilization, the rise of complex and unified classical societies made possible an extensive network of trade routes between the Mediterranean and East Asia, and were in turn transformed (some even destroyed) by the forces unleashed through those exchanges.

1 pages, CD-ROM

Published September 4, 2002