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The Silk Road
A slideshow to accompany the article and lesson “From Isolation to Globalization: Taking
the First Steps Along the Silk Road”OCSS Review , Summer 2006
Slideshow overviewThis slideshow is designed to • Illustrate the physiographic
features at various points along the Silk Road(s).
• Provide oblique angle digital illustrations from Google Earth along with ground-level photographs of those locations.Together, these should give students a better sense of the challenges faced by travelers.
• Take the viewer on a journey from
east to west along one common route of the Silk Road.
Google Earth is available for free at http://earth.google.com/
Google Earth provides you the opportunity to
• mark and label any place on a globe
• draw routes between places• Produce “fly by” videos of a route
at various angles and altitudes.• Display physiographic features of a
location or set of locations, drawn from satellite imagery.
Viewing the Silk Road from Space
Beijing
X’ian
DunhuangKsahgarSamarkan
MervAntioch
Common “Silk Road” Routes
The Road Ahead: Begin Your Journey in China
West
East
Heading West from Beijing
Heading West from Beijing
Next Stop…X’ian
Beijing
X’ian
Looking West from X’ian
Looking West from X’ian
Next Stop…Dunhuang
Beijing
X’ian
Dunhuang
Mogao Caves Near Dunhuang
Keep Moving West to Kashgar
Beijing
X’ian
DunhuangKashgar
Dunhuang to Kashgar: Go Around the Takla Makan Desert
…and Cross the Tien Shan Mountain Range
Arriving at Kashgar
Beijing
X’ian
DunhuangKashgar
Merv
Now…On to Merv
Kashgar to Merv: More Deserts and Mountains
Bactrian Desert
Pamirs
Ancient Merv
Your Journey So Far:
• You have traveled over 3,000 difficult miles
• You have crossed the Takla Makan Desert, the Tien Shan Mountain Range, passed through territories of hostile warriors, crossed the Pamir Mountains and the Bactrian Desert.
• Only 1,532 miles to go!!!
The Road Ahead…
Plains and Mountain Ridges
Zagros Mountains
Your Final Hurdle to Antioch…the Sultan Mountain Range
Finally…Antioch