GEOG 2RW3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Himalayas, Russian Empire, European Colonialism
24 Dec 2018
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The silk road: globalization of ~2,500 years ago: a network of over-land trade routes connecting east asia (china), south asia (india) and. Mediterranean europe via persia (the middle east) and central asia. Central asia via north of the himalayas. Globalization is the interconnectedness of places in different parts of the earth"s surface. The silk road over land network of trading roots that connected a series of places including the central asian part of this region. Lots of goods and ideas going back and forth. We mostly think about it in terms of the exchange of goods like silk, spices coming from the east heading westwards or gold or glass items heading from the west eastwards. Ideas, philosophies and religions, languages, currency, ideas of urbanization are being transferred. What emerges from this a series of places that become important stopping points on the transportation root for people to stay, for people to buy food.
