The Silk Road connected the European, Middle Eastern, and Asian worlds. It also helped create the modern trade world. An analysis activity makes the importance of this Chinese innovation clear by asking participants to evaluate trades...

We take for granted globalization today, but its roots run deep within China centuries ago. Using texts from ancient Chinese historians and photographs of items showing growing Eurasian trade, scholars look at the traces of...

Assignment from virtual learning module in which students label a map of the Silk Road route with physical features, then take a virtual tour to research goods, artifacts and ideas traded along the way. Students also complete a graphic...