Assessing the Relationship Between Trade and Religious Spread

The Silk Road and Trans-Eurasian Trade Networks

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Evaluate historical evidence demonstrating how commercial networks and state patronage accelerated cross-cultural religious and technological diffusion.

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The Silk Road and Trans-Eurasian Trade Networks

6th Grade · Social Studies · US-MA-SS

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Analyze overland and maritime Silk Road routes, trade commodities, geographic obstacles, and the diffusion of Buddhism across Eurasia.

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7.T1.2Massachusetts Social Studies Standards · 5th Grade

Describe important economic, political, and religious developments in Indian and Central Asian history and evaluate the ways in which they conform to or differ from developments in societies in other regions of the world.

7.T1.2.gMassachusetts Social Studies Standards · 5th Grade

the role topography and geography played in making trade along the several routes of the Silk Road viable and lucrative; connections through trade routes to Africa, Europe, and China

7.T2b.2.fMassachusetts Social Studies Standards · 5th Grade

China’s role in trade across Asia and to and from Africa and Europe along the Silk Roads and the introduction of Buddhism in China starting c. 1st century CE.