Silk Road

• SILK ROAD: PRODUCTS, TRADE, MONEY AND MERCHANTS
• SILK ROAD ROUTES
• SILK ROAD CITIES
• CONTACTS BETWEEN THE ANCIENT GREEKS AND ROMANS AND CHINA
• MARITIME SILK ROAD
• DHOWS: THE CAMELS OF THE MARITIME SILK ROAD
• MARITIME-SILK-ROAD-ERA SHIPS, EXPORT PORCELAINS AND SHIPWRECKS
• EARLY HISTORY OF SILK AND THE SILK ROAD
• SILK ROAD DURING THE HAN DYNASTY (206 B.C.- A.D. 220)
• SILK ROAD DURING THE TANG DYNASTY (A.D. 618 - 907)
• MONGOLS AND THE SILK ROAD
• SILK ROAD, BYZANTIUM AND VENICE
• END OF THE SILK ROAD AND RISE OF THE EUROPEAN SILK INDUSTRY
• CARAVANS AND TRANSPORTATION ALONG THE SILK ROAD
• BACTRIAN CAMELS AND THE SILK ROAD
• SILK ROAD AND RELIGION
• SPREAD OF BUDDHISM AND BUDDHIST ART ON THE SILK ROAD
• CHRISTIANITY, NESTORIANS AND THE SILK ROAD
• CHINESE INVENTIONS THAT HAD AN IMPACT ON THE WEST
• IDEAS INTRODUCED FROM CHINA TO THE WEST