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Two medieval cities in the mountains of Uzbekistan were bustling centers of Silk Road trade between China, Arabia and Europe. Researchers have now mapped the cities using drone-borne LiDAR.

1. With Google Earth, Google maps (or similar mapping program) projected for the class to see, review the various routes and tremendous extent of the Silk Roads with students. Ask students to help map ...

These roads connected China, Mongolia, Persia, India, and stretched all the way across the mountains, deserts, and steppes of Central Asia to the Mediterranean.

The Silk Road was not just one, but many trade routes through Central Asia, as shown on this large wall map adorning a restaurant near Qongirot, Uzbekistan. Photograph by John Stanmeyer, Nat Geo ...

On conventional maps of the Silk Road, trade routes spanning the Eurasian continent tend to avoid the mountains of Central Asia as much as possible.

Using slides of objects from the exhibition Monks and Merchants: Silk Road Treasures from Northwest China, Gansu and Ningxia, 4th to 7th Century, students will generate word maps that act as creative ...

The "Polar Silk Road" over the top of Eurasia isn't yet commercially viable, but when it does open it won't do much to change China's integration into the Pacific economy.