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Early Human Diffusion and The Silk Road. For some perspective…. Fully modern humans developed around 200,000 years ago in East Africa “Culture” (who can tell me what culture is again?)-language, symbols, tools, developed perhaps 50k years ago - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Early Human Diffusion and The Silk Road
Fully modern humans developed around 200,000 years ago in East Africa
“Culture” (who can tell me what culture is again?)-language, symbols, tools, developed perhaps 50k years ago
Movement had already been happening! Even human ancestors had left Africa
For some perspective…
Early human migration
Culture developed and evolved in many places—some totally cut off from elsewhere and some not
Agriculture developed around 12,000 years ago in the Middle East
Most people did not come into contact with goods or people from more than a few miles from their birthplace
From there:
Ideas filtered between civilizations and spread
What’s this called again?
However,
What’s a luxury good for an NDP freshman? What’s something really valuable to you?
Why?
Valuable goods? Silk, precious metals, spices
And thus…
Imagine you’re in the Mediterranean region in the 2nd century…
The Silk Road!
Start: then-China capital, Chang-An
End: Mediterranean ports, India
Routes thru India and the Middle East
Series of routes across Asia that carried goods and ideas between China and Europe through central Asia, India, and the Middle East
How would the Silk Road promote cultural diffusion?
Was the Silk Road globalization?
Silk Road