Today we’re going to talk about the collection of routes known as the Silk Roads, and explore how worldview and other ideas spread along those trade routes. The Silk Roads are responsible for everything from the spices we use when we cook to the cloth we see as beautiful, but today we’re going to focus on religion, and show how these routes influenced the beliefs of billions of people through time and space.

SOURCES

General:
Gregory, Derek, Ron Johnston, Geraldine Pratt, Michael Watts, and Sarah Whatmore, eds. 2009. The Dictionary of Human Geography. 5th ed. Willey-Blackwell. ISBN: 978-1-4051-3288-6
Getis, Bjelland, and Getis. Introduction to Geography, 15 ed. McGraw-Hill Education. 2017. ISBN: 978-1-259-57000-1
Hobbs, Joseph J. Fundamental of World Regional Geography, 4th ed. Cengage. 2017.
Cracking the AP Human Geography Exam: 2020 edition.  The Princeton Review.

SIlk Road:
https://silkroaddigressions.com/2021/01/28/unesco-and-the-silk-road-the-role-of-japan/
https://unescosilkroadphotocontest.org/en/node/6639
https://www.nationalgeographic.org/encyclopedia/silk-road/
https://en.unesco.org/silkroad/content/did-you-know-spread-buddhism-south-and-southeast-asia-through-trade-routes
https://en.unesco.org/silkroad/sites/default/files/knowledge-bank-article/ancient_korean_art_and_central_asia.pdf
https://en.unesco.org/silkroad/content/did-you-know-mapping-and-compilation-world-maps-along-silk-roads 
https://en.unesco.org/silkroad/content/did-you-know-city-balkh-ancient-capital-bactria-and-centre-buddhism-and-zoroastrianism

Maps and Cartographers:
https://www.nationalgeographic.org/article/here-be-dragons/
https://www.loc.gov/collections/finding-our-place-in-the-cosmos-with-carl-sagan/articles-and-essays/modeling-the-cosmos/ancient-greek-astronomy-and-cosmology
http://www.unesco.org/new/en/unesco/prizes-medals/commemorative-medals/world-heritage-series/fez-morocco-1982/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geography_and_cartography_in_medieval_Islam#/media/File:TabulaRogeriana_upside-down.jpg 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geography_and_cartography_in_medieval_Islam
https://muslimheritage.com/maps/
https://mongolschinaandthesilkroad.blogspot.com/2011/02/koreas-cartographic-legacy.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gangnido


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