Powerpoint 1. Silk Road, Islamic Empire

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9/28/16 REFLECTION Renaissance Europe • Over the years, we’ve all met someone or had an experience that changed the way we see or understand certain things. – Write about a time in your life where an event, person, and/or people changed your values, beliefs, or attitudes. Changes in worldview E.G. Moving to junior high, travelling, etc. The Renaissance is a story about… • contact among people. • Throughout this chapter, you will explore how contact with other groups is one of three factors that shaped the worldview in western Europe. The Silk Road • What was the Silk Road? • https://youtu.be/vn3e37VWc0k?list=PLUakfN_pLe7dnEr p0CREynhSRyHeS8UkX Look at the map on page 14 of your text • In the 4th century, to prevent civil war, the empire was divided into two. • What are the modern day countries for these empires? Stories from the Silk Road… A long, long time ago there was no silk cloth to make clothes from because it had not yet been discovered. One day the Chinese Emperor’s wife Xi Ling was sitting under a mulberry tree, drinking a hot cup of tea. Suddenly there was a splash! Something had fallen out of the tree and into Xi Ling’s tea. Xi Ling peered inside the cup. It was a caterpillar’s cocoon. She tried to fish it out of her tea, but she noticed that as soon as she touched the wet cocoon, it dissolved into a beautiful, silky thread. Xi Ling took the thread and wove it into a cloth and called it silk. Everyone loved the silk cloth and soon people began to raise the caterpillars (which they renamed silkworms) and harvested the silk thread to make silk cloth. 1 9/28/16 Stories from the Silk Road… How silk was discovered • Is The silk road this a myth, a folktale or a legend? Why? • Is the Empress’ status an important part of this story? Why do you think she is credited with discovering silk? • Why is this story told? Other goods transported along the trade route: • Abacus • Lapis Lazuli • Amethyst • Paper • Money • Bamboo • Perfume Paper – Camera Obscura – Bronze – Spices – Cedar Tea – Turquoise – Cloisonne – Umbrellas – Cosmetics – Wool – Fur – Glass – Gold – Iron Goods transported from? – Ivory The Silk Road • Above all, the most important things that were passed along the road were ideas and knowledge. • Understandings of religion, science, technology, philosophy, music and mathematics • How are trade goods transported today? – land, rail, air, and water transportation much faster – travel much safer from piracy and bandits in most areas than in the Middle Ages – size of shipments much larger This led to à SHARING OF WORLDVIEWS!!!! 2 9/28/16 Think about how difficult it was to move trade goods from China to Italy in the Middle Ages. Compare the transportation of those trade goods to how they would be transported today – less contact amongst traders — usually point to point, rather than through middle men – direct ordering, not through traders – uses gas or other fuel as energy, not animal feed – most trade would be by ocean or air, and not use the land route Role of Islamic civilization • Begins in the 7t h century spreading from the Arabian Penisula. moved westward across North Africa. The Dark Ages… was the world without any knowledge? https://www.youtube.com/wat ch?v=xp1wJgfeRHQ Role of Islamic civilization • Trade between far east and Europe was controlled by Muslim middlemen. • It 750, what is now Spain was under Muslim control. • Muslim empire were the centers of learning. Not such a dark era after all! • By • To the east, Islam spread through what is now Iraq and Iran, into India, and continued to the islands of Indonesia. • How did the geographic location of the Islamic Empire made it a center for learning and discovery from 750 to 1100. Use the map of the Silk Road to help you answer. – Islamic empire controlled trade routes since it was the center of the then known world – Islamic empire on the eastern shores of the Mediterranean, the trade center of Europe. Merchant ships from the west went there to trade. – Islamic empire was at the end of the Silk Road: goods and materials from the far east and the west were all moved through its trading centers. – Astrolabe – aid to navigation uses the location of stars and planets. – Took mathematical ideas from India and refined them into the understanding of numbers we have today. How did the geographic location of the Islamic Empire made it a center for learning and discovery from 750 to 1100. Use the map of the Silk Road to help you answer. – Since most trade occurred through its cities, new ideas arose from the new goods and materials that people saw and uses – technologies from the far east reached the Islamic empire, because it was at the end of the Silk Road, and Islamic scientists refined and studied these technologies. Existing and new documents and books were exchanged in this area resulting in expanded scholarship and study. 3 9/28/16 Answer the reflect and respond questions: Homework: Questions 2 and 3 Summarize pages 16 – 18. in your Social Studies book 4