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Traditions and Encounters, AP Edition (Bentley), 5th EditionChapter 12:
Cross-Cultural Exchanges on the Silk RoadsLearning Objectives
When you have finished studying this chapter, you should be able to do the following:
- Discuss and identify the trade networks of the Hellenistic era and understand the development of the silk roads network.
- Identify and discuss key commodities traded throughout the network.
- Understand the role of the silk roads in spreading religions and epidemic diseases across Eurasia.
- Explain the circumstances behind the internal decay of the Han state.
- Identify features of cultural change in post-Han China.
- Identify features of internal decay in the Roman empire.
- Understand the role of the Germanic migrations in western Roman imperial decline.
- Discuss the cultural changes of the late Roman empire.
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