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1. Buddhism spread from India, through Central Asia, China and Japan. Beginning in the A.D. 2nd century the Silk Road became a pathway for the flow of Buddhism from India to China and back again. 2. The Bubonic Plague spread via the Silk Road which was an infectious disease which was carried by rodents. The disease killed an immense amount of people rapidly and is also known as The Black Death. 3. Buddhist monuments including the Buddha statues of Bamiyan along the Silk Road promoted the religion. These statues were carved out of the sandstone cliffs during the sixth century. 4. Most of what was traded was expensive luxury goods. The Chinese also exported teas, salt, sugar, porcelain, and spices. This was because it was a long trip and merchants didn't have a lot of room for goods. Goods …show more content…
Zoroastrianism, Manichaeism, Nestorian Christianity, Judaism, shamanism, Confucianism and Taoism were also spread on the Silk Road. 15. The Silk Road greatly improved the Chinese economies due to the constant trading of goods, imports and exports. 16. The cultural exchange between China and the West offered mutual benefit and achieved progress for both lands. The Chinese Four Great Inventions were paper, printing, gunpowder and compass, additionally the skills of silkworm breeding and silk spinning were transmitted to the West. This greatly sped up the development of China and the West. 17. The art of glass making from the countries of the Mediterranean to Iran and Central Asia, and in the 5th century it reached China by being taught along the Silk Road. 18. Chinese porcelain was traded all along the Silk Road and became so common in European homes that “china” became the generic name for all fine ceramics. 19. Chinese wealth grew as they delivered silk and other luxury goods to the Roman Empire, whose wealthy Roman women admired their beauty. 20. One result of the spread of Buddhism along the Silk Road was conflict among the people who used the Silk Road to
Some of the items included porcelain and silk, which is more of a want than a need. Charles D’Avenant also mentions that along with receiving luxury good, Europeans were only sending silver and gold back to Asia, which would become buried and never returned. The global flow of silver’s influence on trade between European nations can be seen in D’Avenant’s account of the English being “supplanted in the spice- trade by the Dutch”, in his reference to importing from the East Indies commodities that can then be sold elsewhere across Europe, in his disappointment that gold and silver gets buried permanently in Asia. To the people of Europe, Asian silks and dyed cloth is pleasing to everyone and useful to wear at home. That meant that it should not be recommended to quit the trade between Europe and China because it benefited both countries. In his essay, Xu Dunqiu Ming wrote about how before, buyers would give vegetables and animals in order to purchase a product from a merchant (Doc. 4). But, silver allowed trading and bartering to be simpler because instead of having to trade item for other goods and services, a person can just give a certain amount of silver coins. The historical context of this essay
To begin, around 4000 B.C.E., China’s biggest seller was Silk. In fact, that’s mostly why the Silk Road was built! Everyone wanted some of China’s beautiful silk. In India, everyone traveled for spices as Christopher Columbus...attempted. But that was in the 1400’s. Around 50 C.E., the Kushan Empire started to take over these countries and the road after the Han Empire was overthrown. In the Background Essay, it says “Starting in 50 CE, another Asian Empire took shape and began profiting
-Nara’s Buddhist temples were another result of cultural diffusion, Buddhist began in India in 500s B.C.E. about 1,000 years later, it came to Japan from China by way of Korea.
As time went on, Siddhartha wanted to find out the meaning of life and his experiences through his journey created the practice of Buddhism. His first teaching as a Buddha was based on the doctrine of the four noble truths and along with the principle of the middle way, the eight fold path. Through oral tradition, the ideas and practices of Buddhism spread across India. The teachings of Buddha spread through Asia when the trade of silk passed from one country to another along with what came to be known as “The Silk Road.”
Xuanzang was a highly educated Buddhist monk from China, who in 629 C.E. made the long and treacherous journey along the Silk Road to India. His main objectives in his sixteen years away from home were fundamentally religious; he only wanted to study more complete scriptures to answer questions he had, which he deemed unsolvable in his own country. It is important to understand Xuanzang’s own position within the Chinese society and the type of situation it was in: Chinese Buddhists had many disagreements
The Mongols influenced the world in many great ways, one of them was their vast trade system. They relied quite heavily on trade, not only to gain resources, but also to get their inventions and objects to the Europeans and then hopefully spread from there. The Mongols enhanced the trading system by composing the “Silk Road”. The Silk Road was a path/road that the Mongols had control of and it was a trade route that many travelers and traders took. Along the Silk Road, the main resource that was traded was silk, hence the name “Silk Road.” The
As in terms of economics, China grew prosperous through trade, military expansion, invention of tools and other means of convenience and through the market economy. From the Han Dynasty China began to build again. The Sui Dynasty constructed the Grand Canal. The Grand Canal was an artificial canal that extended 1,240 miles. It enabled merchants and farmers to travel by water, selling an abundance of rice and other crops. This canal was extremely expensive but throughout the years paid itself off by providing travel routes north and south of China. The Sui Dynasty also built palaces, granarie...
At the time of the Han Dynasty, general trade began over the Silk Road, which was a network of trails that stretched 4,000 miles from China extending to the Roman Empire. At the time the Chinese were unique in their knowledge of how to raise silkworms and weave silk. Chinese silk was extremely expensive. In fact it was worth its weight as gold in Rome! Europeans also preferred other Asian luxury goods including but not limited to exotic sp...
India and China’s geography helped them spread their religion to other areas. India’s religions, Hinduism and Buddhism, spread to other regions. The trade that was created due to each civilizations’ geography not only traded regions’ goods with one another, but their religion as well. According to World History: A Pattern of Interaction, Hinduism spread to Nepal and south to Sri Lanka and Borneo. A majority of the spread of Indian religion was due to Buddhist merchants and monks that converted people along the route of the Silk Road. China is similar to India’s religions, as the Chinese region believed in Buddhism because of the conversions of religion that had occurred
Buddhism was brought to China approximatly 600 years after it’s creation. Buddhism recieved many mixed responses to its expansion that constantly were changing as time went on. With Buddhisms height during China’s period of instability and disunity, people found comfort in its practices and preachings. Despite Buddhisms expansion into all of Chinas nine provinces, influencing and captivationg the intrests of inumerable amounts of people, there was still countless mumbers of people who had deeply rooted detestation for the religon that increased as time passed, and peole who discussed of its conflictions with long used confucious beleifs.
Although Siddhartha Gotama spread the religion of Buddhism in India, his teaching had a great impact on other countries. Buddhist first made their way to China via the silk route; this was a network of caravan tracts that linked China to the rest of central Asia to the Mediterranean region. Buddhist monks also made their way into China with Buddhist scriptures and Buddhist art in their possession. This is the first time that Buddhism made a substantial impact on the Chinese. Quickly many Chinese began to convert to the new religion that was brought into china.
This investigation attempts to analyze the Silk Road’s impact on cultural diffusion. The Silk Road was a trade route connecting Eastern China to the Mediterranean regions. It was incredibly important because it brought Europe, Asia, and the Middle East together in trade, and allowed them to trade goods and ideas. The parameters are the cultural diffusion east meets west and the spread of religion. It will focus on the time period between the 2nd and the late 17th centuries and the places investigated will be the west, (made up of Europe and the Middle-East) and the east (which refers to most of Asia, although in this investigation it will focus mostly on China). This will be accomplished through a thorough examination of historical books such as Horizon Book Division’s History of China, John S. Bowman’s Exploration in the World of the Ancients, and Daniel Waugh’s “THE SILK ROADS IN HISTORY”.
The four hundred years between the collapse of the Han dynasty (206 B.C.E.- C.E. 220) and the establishment of the Tang dynasty (618-906) mark a division in the history of China. During this period, foreign invasion, transcontinental trade, and missionary ambition opened the region to an unprecedented wealth of foreign cultural influences. These influences were both secular and sacred. Nomads, merchants, emissaries and missionaries flooded into China, bringing new customs, providing exotic wares, and generating new religious beliefs. Foremost among these beliefs was Buddhism, born in India, but which now took root in China. These new influences entered China by a vast network of overland routes, popularly known as the Silk Road
I think the most important invention from China was gunpowder. I believe this for three reasons one it changed trade, two it changed warfare , and three it led to great change in the economy. Once discovered, gunpowder was made more and more popular, for things like fireworks and warfare. Then people started trading it on the open market for money or other things. This led to more trade to and from China which the emperors were able to tax. Next we have how gunpowder changed warfare in ancient times and even now. When it’s explosive properties were discovered generals in the army right away saw how it could be useful in war. The first way it was used in war was rockets filled up with shrapnel or tiny bits of sharp metal. This really affected
They were the middlemen of important things like bring paper to the west from China. They also were literate and knew foreign languages. With all these advantages, the Sogdians were crucial for the spread of religions that they were influenced. First, Buddhism influenced some Sogdians who spread it through the trading colonies, and in turn spread Buddhism all across the Silk Road even to China. Later Sogdians were influenced by other religions like Manichaeism and Nestorian Christianity, and they spread those religions across the Silk Road just as they did with Buddhism.