The Silk Road

The Silk Road

اسلاید 1: The Silk RoadA slideshow to accompany the article and lesson “From Isolation to Globalization: Taking the First Steps Along the Silk Road”OCSS Review , Summer 2006

اسلاید 2: 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 placesProduce “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.

اسلاید 3: Viewing the Silk Road from Space

اسلاید 4: BeijingX’ianDunhuangKsahgarSamarkanMervAntioch

اسلاید 5: Common “Silk Road” Routes

اسلاید 6: The Road Ahead: Begin Your Journey in ChinaWestEast

اسلاید 7: Heading West from Beijing

اسلاید 8: Heading West from Beijing

اسلاید 9: Next Stop…X’ianBeijingX’ian

اسلاید 10: Looking West from X’ian

اسلاید 11: Looking West from X’ian

اسلاید 12: Next Stop…DunhuangBeijingX’ianDunhuang

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اسلاید 14: Mogao Caves Near Dunhuang

اسلاید 15: Keep Moving West to KashgarBeijingX’ianDunhuangKashgar

اسلاید 16: Dunhuang to Kashgar: Go Around the Takla Makan Desert

اسلاید 17: …and Cross the Tien Shan Mountain Range

اسلاید 18: Arriving at Kashgar

اسلاید 19: BeijingX’ianDunhuangKashgarMervNow…On to Merv

اسلاید 20: Kashgar to Merv: More Deserts and MountainsBactrian DesertPamirsAncient Merv

اسلاید 21: 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!!!

اسلاید 22: The Road Ahead…

اسلاید 23: Plains and Mountain Ridges

اسلاید 24: Zagros Mountains

اسلاید 25: Your Final Hurdle to Antioch… the Sultan Mountain Range

اسلاید 26: Finally…Antioch