The Silk Road and Afro-Eurasian trade
Silk Road trade: Chinese coin of the Han Empress Kuo Empires and the Silk Road Starting in the 500s BC, governments started to come together into empires. Travel got safer. [...]
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Chinese animals – Environment of China
A camel caravan in northern China Long ago, in the Stone Age, about 3000 BC, many different kinds of wild animals lived in China - elephants, lions, pandas, wild horses, [...]
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Tang Dynasty Chinese Pottery – Medieval China
T'ang Dynasty cup (Musee Guimet, Paris) Who invented porcelain? About 700 AD in China, plain white porcelain pottery first begins to appear, like these cups and these bowls. What is [...]
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Sui Dynasty Art – Painting and porcelain in Medieval China
Sui Dynasty art: a clay camel, ca. 600-650 AD What came before the Sui Dynasty? In the Three Kingdoms period, Chinese artists had learned a lot about Indian and West [...]
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Sewing, wheels, and steel – Central Asian science
Central Asian science: A clay pot with a drawing of a wheeled cart from what is now Poland, about 3500 BC What was invented in Central Asia? Many of the [...]
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What was the Silk Road? Central Asian Economy
Mongol herdsman Hunting wild animals The first people moved into Central Asia about 50,000 BC. They were probably following the big animals that they hunted for food and leather skins [...]
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Evolution of Horses – Where do horses come from?
Eohippus - an early kind of horse When mammals first began to grow larger, after the dinosaurs became extinct about 70 million years ago, some of them evolved into the [...]
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Salt Caravans
Han Dynasty Chinese tile showing people mining salt underground and then processing it. See the bamboo pipe? Mining salt in antiquity The salt trade, already important in the Bronze Age, [...]
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Early African Economy
Early African economy: Roman centaur lamp found at Meroe (Sudan, ca. 100 AD) African trade to Asia and India: cowrie shells African traders have been selling things to West Asian [...]
