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Oasis City-States: Dunhuang, Samarkand, and Kashgar
Examine the role of oasis city-states in providing water, resupply, security, and market exchanges for traveling merchant caravans.
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The Silk Road and Trans-Eurasian Trade Networks
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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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Learning standards covered
7.T1.2.gMassachusetts Social Studies Standards · 5th Gradethe 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.T1.2Massachusetts Social Studies Standards · 5th GradeDescribe 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.