the silk road: yesterday & today
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The Silk Road: Yesterday & Today. How has the quest for resources affected human history?. By Ted Mitchell. Students understanding timeless trends or themes. Understanding by design: working backwards. ASFMS Social Studies Department: Thematic Essential Questions. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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The Silk Road: Yesterday & Today
How has the quest for resources affected human history?
By Ted Mitchell
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UNDERSTANDING BY DESIGN: WORKING BACKWARDS
Students understanding timeless trends or themes
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ASFMS Social Studies Department: Thematic Essential Questions
• Why do people live and move where they do?
• Why do people live the way they do?
• How and why do humans organize their societies the way they do?
• How does technology affect people’s lives?
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Thematic Essential Questions Continued…• How has conflict and cooperation
shaped human history?
• How has the quest for resources affected human history?
• How do we know what we know about human history?
• Why do civilizations rise and decline?
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THE CONTENT AND MATERIALS BEHIND THIS PROJECT
Seminars, grant money, and a study tour
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NCTA Study Tour 2006
Brief summary of the study tour (As it relates to the project)
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Shanghai – A Mission to Surpass Hong Kong (created by the British)
Shanghai – 18 million or more people!
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From the Pearl Tower in Shanghai – Skyscrapers as far as one can see and, more importantly, ships carrying cargo 24/7 out to the East China Sea from Chinese factories.
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“[M]ore than 300 of the world's Fortune 500 companies have invested in the city.” (CNN)
In the last two decades, more than 5,000 buildings 15 stories or taller have gone up in the city. For much of the 1990s, by one estimate, three-quarters of all the construction cranes in the world were operating in China, and more than a quarter of the global total was in Shanghai alone.(LA Times)
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The Bund: Shanghai’s European Concessions – Opium War Trade
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Three Gorges Dam (Main Reason = Transportation for Trade)
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Inside Lock #1 – A cargo ship (one of many) next to our cruise ship
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Coal barge on the Yangtze: Fueling Rising China
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Chongqing - a city on the Yangtze
A thriving inland port with mass production flowing out the Yangtze and to the world.
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The quest for resources or trade brought Buddhism to China. The Leshan Giant Buddha (largest in the world):
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Buddhism dwindled in India, but flourished in China.
Emeishan (Sacred Buddhist mountain)
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Kanding, China – On the border of Tibet
Where the Han Chinese meet the Tibetans…colliding cultures.
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Chengdu: Southwest Transportation University Dorm Room
The quest for knowledge to help in the quest for resources. Now, the Internet helps connects us all.
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Beijing: Communism gives way to Capitalism
The Forbidden City – China closed its doors in the past
Only to open them again to the world (Beijing Hard Rock Café)
Now, competing globally…
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The world’s quest for resources have helped China rise again
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The silk of yesterday becomes goods for Wal-Mart today. Regardless, trade and the quest for resources continues.
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THE QUEST FOR RESOURCES IN THE PAST
The Silk Road and China – Background to this Project
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The quest for resources led to trade between empires and cultures. Foreigners wanted silk…
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Trading along the Silk Road – Many stops and exchanges of goods and ideas between China and Rome
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Cultures Collide
Central Asian Buddhist Monk in Dunhuang Mural
Muslim family in Kashgar, China
Zhang Qian caravan to Central Asia
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Three Golden Eras of the Silk Road• 2nd Century B.C.E. – 2nd Century
C.E. [Han Dynasty]
• 7th – 10th Century C.E. [Tang Dynasty]
• 12th – 14th Century C.E. [Yuan Dynasty]
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Han Empire 206 B.C.E. – 220 C.E.
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Tang Dynasty 619 – 907 C.E.
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Yuan Dynasty 1271 – 1368 C.E.
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Many empires ruled along the Silk Road contributing their own goods and ideas…
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Persian Empire Exchanges Goods & Ideas with China
Achaemenid “Persian” Empire 330 B.C.E
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Greek Empire Exchanges Goods & Ideas with China
Alexander’s Empire 332 B.C.E.
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Greco-Bactrian Kingdom 180 B.C.E.
Alexander’s empire dissolves into separate kingdoms.
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Mauryan Empire (India)
322 – 125 B.C.E.Ashoka Spreads Buddhism
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Kushan Empire 250 C.E.
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Parthian Empire Map 1st Century B.C.E.
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Roman Empire 27 B.C.E – 476 C.E. [Byzantium -1453]
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Geography of the Silk Road: Even though there were many physical obstacles, trade continued.
Himalayan Mountains
Pamir Mountains
Taklimakan Desert
Kunlun Mountain Painting
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The Silk Road brought inventions of yesterday to the present: The Umbrella
Emperor’s umbrella in the Forbidden City
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The umbrella today
Sun umbrellas are still very popular in China
As technology evolves…?
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THE SILK ROAD: YESTERDAY & TODAY
An online unit and virtual tour
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The Silk Road Online
http://www.mitchellteachers.org/ChinaTour/SilkRoadProject/silk_road-main.html