World History › Section J · India, the Indian Ocean, and East Asia › Topic J.2
East-West interactions and the Silk Roads
Overland caravans and seagoing ships joined China to the Mediterranean, India and East Africa. This topic follows what moved along these routes between about 500 and 1300: silk, paper and porcelain, but also monks, missionaries, merchants and faiths.
In this topic
- A network, not a road
- Goods and technologies
- Worked example: following a bolt of silk
- Faiths on the road
- Worked example: reading the Xi'an stele
- Empires along the routes
- The maritime Silk Roads
- Cholas and Srivijaya
- New faiths in Southeast Asia
- East Africa and the ocean trade
- Common mistakes to avoid
- Key takeaways
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