The Silk Road

March 7, 2013 Humanities The Silk Road Rome_____________Central Asia______________Han China India The Nomads The Silk Road crossed nomadic territory perfect Agriculture humans + omega animals Sparce population in a large area Calorie Exchange 90,000 calories * Plants- 100,000 calories * Animals- 10,000 calories Horse= mobility No borders (territorial imperative )= pastures War infrangible pastures Archery Who are they? Scythians Altaic people * Turks * Mongols * Koreans * Japanese Contributions to history Chariots (HORSE)-harness on the withers /bit (light cart, drive-bybronze tires) * Cavalry mounted archer (they move in hordes ) celluloid symbiosis +Trade * (population pressure and supplemental income) Population Crisis The Silk Road- 100 BCE-300CE Trade is going to increase population above what the herds can feed Central Asia becomes in full occupied Plagues hit Rome + China * Defenses collapse * Trade ends Switch to Raid Mongols Xiong- Nu Han Wudi (Conqueror) his actions cr eated the Silk Road (100 BCE) Xiong-Nu Split into two wings Eastern Wing ally of the HanWestern Wing marched away Chinese Court paralyzed/ Dynastic Cycle Warlords- Mongol Soldiers (fatal error- introduced to China) Turks Conquer North China Horse/Rice Western Xiong-Nu Pushed westward + hit the Goths (Scandinavia) Germans Tribal Groups Nuclear Family (industry) Extended families (agriculture) Clan (hunting + gathering 7th cousin) Tribe -multiple clans-totem/incest( totems are animals that represent your essence)- its a pastoral system future(a) generation will need an election. Warriors are going to vote. Germans flee west Visigoths yr 409 Rome Ostragoths- Italy The Franks- FranceThe Danes- Denmark The juts- Jutland (the neck of denmark) Burgundian- Burgundy Angles- England Saxons- Saxony Vandals- Vandalism-453 Rome Alemmani- germany The old dish out routes I. Trade Nodals A. Nodal= Cluster of cities B. Nodal 1 Flanders (belgium) 1. Ghent 2. Ypres 3. Bruges Country/count C. Rhi ne D. North Italy= Nodal 2 4. Milan 5. Venice 6. Genoa 7. PISA 8. Florence Theyre all city-states Network cities because they survive on pile network-crossbow Gun powder/ cannon E. Mediterranean 9. Constantinople (Changes name to instanbul) 10. Alexandria 11. Tunis * * * *