Matt Stirn Surrounded by the Himalayas, Ladakh is one of India's most sparsely populated regions (Credit: Matt Stirn) The Silk Road refers to one of the world's largest overland trade routes – a ...

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) ...

Historically, these ideas spread along trade routes. This essay looks at the great Eurasian Silk Roads as a transmitter of people, goods, ideas, beliefs and inventions. Good ideas travel easilyand far ...

And in fact, that long predates the major trade routes along those roads. The earliest records for "Silk Road" trade date to ... In a way, this is a simple model, one that leaves out the social ...

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 ...

Ancient traders faced challenges and devised solutions that, surprisingly, resemble some of the practices used by modern ...

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 ...

Until recently, my vague idea of the Silk Road, the trade link from ancient east Asia to the West, was of camels crossing ...

After unearthing a rare collection of highly prized Silk Road artefacts, a family in the Himalayas has opened a museum dedicated to one of the fabled route's final traders. After India claimed ...