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Year 8 Humanities Medieval: Silk Trade Route

What is the Silk Road?

Silk Road
What is the Silk Road? This website looks at the origins, the road to China, economy, and spice trade.

Silk Road (Britannica)

What was traded on the Silk Road?

What was Traded on China's Silk Road and Why?
Brief look at the types of resources that were traded between countries on the Silk Road.

Silk Road and Spread of Plague

Clickview: How did the Black Death spread along the Silk Road?

The Silk Road (YouTube)

YouTube video briefly describing the establishment of the Silk Road.

Lesson by Shannon Harris Castelo, animation by Steff Lee.

Black Plague: what is it?

Black Death, what is it?
What is it? What are the symptoms? How did it start?

Black Plague on the Silk Road

How the Black Death Spread Along the Silk Road
How the Black Plague was passed from one part of the world to another.

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