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With modern technology, a global exchange of goods and ideas can happen at the click of a button. But what about 2,000 years ago? Shannon Harris Castelo unfolds the history of the 5,000-mile Silk Road, a network of multiple routes that used the common language of commerce to connect the world's major settlements, thread by thread.
Lesson by Shannon Harris Castelo, animation by Steff Lee.
I like how these videos cover such a range of topics, from new scientific discoveries to historic events that one would learn in middle school. I hadn't thought about the silk road in probably a few years.
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Could you guys do History vs. Winston Churchill?
+TED-Ed wrong information about arrival of Islam in India
Islam came India from Yemen, or probably Oman
the root you shown in this video, it was Islamic conquest of Persia
TED-Ed did you make this video?
The history of textbooks is always advocating nationalism.
The interconnectedness of ancient cultures is fascinating, its shows how truly one we all are despite the barriers that we pretend separate us.
Nice speech ....
Is what I would have said ..
If I did not have homework on this 😡
ted ed is the best channel on the TH-cam no other channel can even match these channel .the way they explain is simpler then any one can teach to anybody .the topic it covers from ancient to modern things is outstanding.i spend my 2 hours daily to these channel and it's worth to do so
My history teacher uses this channel all the time from ancient egypt to ancient china, glad you've got everything
Mrs. Castelo is an awesome teacher I have the pleasure of having her as my freshman world history teacher. If I didn’t know any better I’d say that she would have a doctorate in this subject. Very knowledgeable. Very enthusiastic as well you can tell she goes home and researches the subject before presenting it to class. For her future pupils, I hope you enjoy the class as much as I am!
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@@thebruh9370what
You were lucky to have her as a teacher.
I learnt the Silk Road when I was in middle school.But I totally forget it.After watching the video, I learn more about Silk Road.TED-Ed often tells the story in a deep way.Thank you so much.
This video gave me a variety of information! I am only 10 years old and I am very surprised!!! I have searched for a lot of videos about the silk road but I couldn't find a good one like this one!!! THANK YOU SO MUCH TED-Ed!!!! :)
now since you are 11 is ted ed still the best
POV: Your History teacher gave you homework that you have to watch this video but your just scrolling through the comments like me
yah man
Yep! You know it!
Spot on
Yep
Yea
This is education. It's not forcing young students with bright minds to read textbooks and remember them to the dot, it's LEARNING. Ted ed is revolutionary
amazing how when different cultures join together they can become stronger than ever before.
This is great, but I wish you would also mention more the role of northern and eastern Africa and the people in the steppes and innovations from these regions that helped make the silk road possible!
Could you explain that to me? I need to write an essay about how trade and economical innovations connected people across Asia. 🙏🏻🙏🏻
@@abbiemart2 how is ur essay going? what did u write about?
@@Sea-qv4sd lol it's now 2 years
Where is Kangaskhan
You did a great job on this production. Wow. Right talking speed, appropriate animation, and information that creates a desire to search into more detailed topics. Thank you
And plague. The increased international trade also carried plague.
No point. ;-p
So sure, maybe the silk road spread the plauge. But still, it created more popular and significant things. Looking on the bright side helps.
Which carried resistance to it. Resistance which The indigenous in North America hadn't develop
North American indigenous didn't die of plague.
the comment above yours went as follows: The silk road: connecting the internet with drugs
and so when I red your my mind pretty much read: The Silk Road: connecting the internet with drugs... and plague. The increased international trade also carried plague.
Now these are the history lessons worth teaching.
When I'm just an 7th grade studying Asian history I thought that silk road is literally made of silk
lol
Bruh
I am studying Asian history in 4th grade!!!!!
Early gunpowder was invented by grinding up guns into a powder
I was in 7th when this video was made.
who else is watching it only for homework?
Justyna Welman Yep me too
@@Joji_Babz Yep. For Social Studies. Not sure if we're having a test on this tomorrow!
OMG ...
Waaaa I am
And my teacher sepically recommend this channel
I can't even do anything but homework ... Coz of thissssss 🤬
me
Cause we be stuck on quarantine *sarcastic jazz hands
And wait for it....the Mongols!
+CNX625 Crash course
bruh
Stan, not the montage!
naaaa nananaaa nananaaaa *man on fire being dragged by horse*
They're the exceptions. 😂
TED-Ed got the facts wrong. Silk Road starts from China to the West, hence, the name Silk Road, as Silk came from China. The road connects China to Persia. The Romans did not even trade directly with Chinese. Persia was the intermediary.
yes you are right,but once the Rome failed in invading Persian empire,and 120 soldiers were sold by the Persian as slaves to it eastern borders.And these guys tried and successful fled to China and were accepted by Chinese general,and the emperor of Han give them a place to settle,in today's Gansu .and they lives there peaceful,and these peoples offsprings still live there today.another contact is,at the year 165-180Ad .the Rome emperor Markus antonius aulerius ,also known as the philosophy king,send a group of diplomatist to China ,to celebrate the birthday of emperor and want to build more contacts with the east.however,they are too far from each other....that's the notes from the states history,but the recording is quite fewer as other middle Asia countries..honestly ,I agree what you said,ancient china knows more and contacts more and trade more with Persian(Iran and etc. ) and Kushan(Afghanistan India Pakistan ) empire .
nobody’s perfect 🙄
I don’t think Ted Ed is wrong by starting the story from Darius I’s royal route. 400 years before Zhang Qian’s adventure.
The Silk Road is a number of trade routes which gradually came together. It didn’t ‘start’ anywhere, because it wasn’t intentionally built.
@@tsoiboy4073 Silk Road was established after China set up commanderie in Xinjiang and Central Asia during Han dynasty, that was the only road to China for highly prized Silk. The term was later expanded to include any subsidiary roads that's connected to it, including maritime ones.
I am here because of a genuine wish to learn history
TED-Ed is awesome! My teacher always uses these videos to explain topics for our class and our class loves it. We literally begged him to watch these videos in school!
Thank you TedEed. I needed this for my homework at school. :D
He doesn’t talk to anyone ? Know idea why ?
I had to write a paragraph about it idk why im writing it here but this is it:
The Silk Road: Connecting the Ancient World Through Trade
After you watch the video, explain how the Silk Road was “the original world wide web.”
(Use the instructions as your topic sentence. Define “silk road” and “world wide web.” Explain the obvious differences and the similar connections between the two. 7-10 sentences. If you follow my advice within these parentheses, you already have 7!)
The silk road was the original world wide web. A world wide web is how all of earth’s people stay connected. The new WWW is the internet, but the silk road is the first. The silk road was a network of trade routes which connected the East and West, and was central to the economic, cultural, political, and religious interactions between these regions from the 2nd century BCE to the 18th century. The difference between the new WWW and the old one is that the old one was slower and it eventually failed, while the new one can get messages from one side of the world to the other in a blink of an eye and is still going strong as of now. The internet is also available to all people, while the silk road was obviously just for people in the eastern hemisphere. The silk road made trade and travel became easier, allowing different civilizations to be connected like never before.
I know
im bad i writing
thank you for this
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Integrating facts with animations is innovative and INTERESTING. Moreover, your choice in animation style (simple, vibrant and humorous) is top notch!
Who is watching this for school in 2024😅
Not me I did it voluntarily
Omg mee
My teacher doesn’t explain and give us workbooks only so I have to self learn and teach myself 😭😭
Me 😂
No i was just curious
Even after many years, it still brings a tear to my eyes
why?
Rightly said that
Without those pineers , world would not be as developed as it is today.
I’m Chinese so I’m very happy that you guys did this.
Everything was started from Asia.
no, Afrika
+BiLal asia
+Ahsen Jabbar Africa
Kendall Sweatshirt how?
Ahsen Jabbar Pre Islamic trans Saharan trade
"History's first world wide web" - Can't end with a better line than this 😊❤
Ah the Silk Road, one a massive trade route between Asia and Europe, now an illegal trade network on the dark web
Hasn't it been shut down at least 3 times
The raging War Cat which is now being used by China for reaching Global Domination.
Adam Weishaupt It keeps coming back though with multiple different alternates.
@@adamweishaupt3733 Yes, but every time the government shuts down the website, a new version appears e.g. Silk Road 2.0, 3.0
@@haiderahabdul-kareem1273 lmao
2:42 missed a Chinese city which exported a big portion of silk at the time... Chengdu’s Shujin has been proven to be at least one of the “silk” as the name “Silk Road” suggests.
When I do not understand, I rely on Ted- ed
Thankfully my prof sent a Ted Ed one- idk why this channel isn't boring-
The secret to the Chinese military becoming the strongest in the world during ancient times was also because they pioneered the Silk Road, the world's greatest trade route.
Hello,
Thank you for taking your time to read this. I'm Shiny Sun from Simon Fraser University. I'm a visual art major student, but I'm also very interested in geography and am taking a geography course as my elective. This is my last semester of my undergraduate and I'm in the final stages of finishing my assignments in my last semester. In my Geography course, I made a Story Map on the topic of the Silk Road and its influence on the spread of Buddhism, and I hope that my research can contribute to other students and teachers’ studying relevant materials. This story map of mine is an in-depth study of the spread of Buddhism on the Silk Road, because I found that many tutorials and course materials now focus on the commercial value of the Silk Road while discussing how the Silk Road became a link between East Asia and Europe as a bridge, not many people can think of other roles of the Silk Road, however, the role of this ancient trade route is obviously underestimated. I think it is very necessary and important for students to learn more comprehensive knowledge, which enables them to think more comprehensively, understand and discover some new knowledge points. I hope that by providing this resource for free to students can encourage them to think more about not only the Silk Road, but also have more curiosity about all historical terms and have the courage to do more in-depth investigation and understanding.
Here is the link to my Story Map, storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/e13e202e493e47f0a29ae14003d6b027
Please share it with the students if you think it's a helpful resource. And please reach me out if there are any follow-up questions, I will be very happy to answer the students' questions.
Thank you again for your patience and time!
Sincerly,
Shiny Sun
Wow learning this right now in history
I am watching because some amazing gentlemen mentioned the Mediterrasian Diet and how these places were connected by the Silk road. Sounds interesting so I want to know more about this Silk Road.
I love this channel even my best friends watch it!
Who else needs to watch this for school
The silk road: connecting the internet with drugs
+The Eagle Mapper Don't forget obscure pornos
yeah, it didn't have any filters XD
The Eagle Mapper 😂
How the internet should be.
assassins too
胡姬舞动红绫，群星遥遥相望，大漠无垠，驼铃声落处，只留狂风回荡
烟花易冷，人事易分，从此无人在落日的余晖里反弹琵琶，敦煌的飞天任岁月剥去红妆。
Such a pretty, such a wonderful--has all gone. Whatever how cry, whatever how many tears shed, it just can't return back. The price to become flawless is short-life.
Thousand years by thousand years. A lonely inland.
But we still want......
@Elisa Del Prete
😂
It was supposed to be deep ?
I guess ..
I think whatever she typed in Chinese she translated to English...
Elisa Del Prete I translated it
So beautiful, so wonderful-all disappeared. No matter how much we weep, no matter how many tears shed, it can't return. The perfect price is short-lived. One thousand years. Lonely inland. But we still have to ...
Shut up
I love this vid, but extra love the ending animation 😊 More power to Ted Ed!
I have to watch this for one of my history classes.
i have to watch this for watermelon kfc
@@barman. What?
This is a great video! It's fascinating to learn about the World history.
Who is here for school but already knew about this channel before?!
I love how they waving us at the end :-)
Don't forget one of the greatest legacies of the silk road: Food! Some research shows that the reason we have so many different types of dumpling-like food all the way from east Asia to Turkey to Italy is because of the food technique shared along the silk road from China. Next time you eat your ravioli or buns don't forget to thank the merchants!
when i had to watch it more than once because i kept zoning out👁👄👁
same here
saem
I love these kinds of videos for school.
Hi TED-Ed.
I really enjoy your videos and I'm grateful for them, for their content and all the hard work that goes into them.
So it's with the greatest respect that I feel I must point out that your remark about Islam's spread to South Asia, where it "blended with native beliefs and led to new faiths like Sikhism" is wholly misleading.
As a practising Sikh it would be remiss of me not to state that this common idea of Sikhism being a mish-mash of Hindu and Muslim traditions is a fallacy, not to mention a little insulting, since it denies Sikhs their own authentic identity and agency as devotees of a religion that is its own.
I know it wasn't deliberate, I'm not offended... you teach me stuff all the time, I hope I've been able to return the favour.
Thank you and keep up the excellent work.
Thank you. I agree with you and was thinking the same thing as a Sikh.
Thank you to all the past civilizations.
Ive watched this 7 times for school snd i still don't understand
Unicorn Lover same
LOVE THIS VIDEO! Thx for the info and making it soooo easy to understand! :)
"The silk road- history's first world wide web." Never thought like that before!!!
Yaa
All I want to say is that when countries fight each other I get to learn many things in history.
XLPP 4 LIFE
this was beautifully done... BEAUTIFULLY
I only heard of it because of Empress Ki. Now, thanks for this, I understand it better.
Great to see a TED video on such an interesting topic!
I made a vlog about SILK ROAD without really knowing it more. Really great videos 🙏
Ayo watching this for class 2020
Thank you ancient ancestors ❤️
Well done overview. In some ways the Silk Road is a philosophy and mindset of human curiousity and natural tendency towards exploration.
Thank you for helping me with my school
The silk road had prospered Nepal by allowing its goods to be traded through Tibet. Now, with only one country--India to depend on, Nepal's trade is deteriorating. If the very silk road revives again, the countries like Nepal and Bhutan can make their presence in global trade more than ever.
I love this channel!
I love the cartoons they use to teach stuff!!!!!!!!
I wish i had seen all this videos in my school life.
Thanks for letting me get an A+ on my social studies quiz :)
Sure u got an a from this video
Simply. Perfect..
I mean.. Such a wide range of information is squeezed in this video. Thank you so much TedEd..
It would be so helpdul for my students. Plus.. The visualization helps students to retain information and process it..
Thanks TED-Ed, time to finish my history homework
Same ...
Thank AnCiEnt cHiNa too..
Uhhh I don't want to be rude but ...
This topic is boring ....
So sorry for people who like this topic ...
A good video, facts are presented well
there is just one problem, Sikhism was not born out of Islam.
Pallav Malhotra Sikhism was not born out of Islam but it was heavily influenced by Islam and probably would have not been created if it wasn't for Islam in India.
what you say is true, but it is not what i interpreted while watching the video.
Pallav Malhotra What faith do you follow?
+Yunus - Jonah which religion isn't made up?
+Extrawarot Sikhism is evidently a made-up religion because we know no one claimed Divinity from it.
who else watching this for homework during quarantine?
flash to 2014 and it's still shipping goods... ;)
;D
flash to 2020, and everyone is printing their goods, and economies collapse
@that one female star wars fan ha ha ha
i just found a new favorite channel ! thank you for all the video :)
Urmm, sorry but, after the fall of the Mongols i.e Yuan Dynasty, wasn't it followed by the Ming Dynasty, which flourished with international trade. The muslim admiral Zheng He, no?
The close-door policy started when the Manchus (Qing Dynasty) took over China after the fall of Ming. Correcto?
yes, Qing dynasty sux
I love these short videos so much!
Found one error: Europe running out of gold and silver to buy Chinese goods is one reason why age of discovery started. Once the Portuguese and Spanish found LOTS of silver in America, they flushed Chinese market with cheap silver, that's what CAUSE Chinese government shut down the silk road. This video have the cause then result stated in reversed order.
Only if back then people understand inflation.
Guoguo Lu Spanish Price Revolution mostly affected the Europen market. The integrity of the The Silk Road is mostly affected by the stability of those kingdoms along the road. When Mongol empire fell, the silk road started to decline which in turn motivated European traders to find the maritime route. The sea route offered better trading patterns and eventually caused the demise of the Silk Road. Ming dynasty closed itself due to political reasons rather than inflation.
Helps a lot for AP World History
Would be great if you covered Persia's history too.
I mean they were one of the largest and most successful empires in whole history with some great leaders like Darius.
Great video though.👍
i like how useful this is in life. infact, im studying to become an ancient chinese silk trader right now. such a wonderful skill to have, i think everyone should train to be an ancient chinese silk trader, such a shame the industry has gone out of business
LOL
These are so well written!
3:44 the gunpowder explosion in the middle east took me out😭😭😭😭😭😭
made in bangladesh aww that was soooo legit heart touching
Best video on silk road.
India has such great history, please make some videos on that too❤️
Who here is from the middle of the Silk Road?🇦🇿❤️
It was iran, azarbaycan was just a State
Amir Almasi it wasn’t just a state
Who else is watching this for homework but still doesn't understand what's going on
Okay that's it I don't need school anymore, just need ted ed
Very nice, but I would change one thing- when you show the whole network of the silk road, it would be nice to also show the rivers or other important landmarks/cities, to see why the merchants travelled in those paths.
When the anchot cites 'And now the mountains, deserts and oceans' at 4.45 and onwards, the location of 'deserts' that is shown is appalingly incorrect!
Step by step how to triger a age of exploration:
Step 1: have a strong trade road conencing two or more large contines.
Step 2: colapse the road by ending trade between conturies or block the road by natural beriers or hostile conturies.
Step 3: wait for one of the continents to find a new way to trade (note: this event can hapend only onece in history)
Can't belive they said "Super sonic vehicles"
This video is really helpful! Keep up the good work!
3 cheers for the first pioneer.
Hip hip hurrah!
My teacher is making me watch this ;(
same
Good
same
1:28 , 1:48 , 2:11 , 2:20 , 2:32 , 2:42 , 3:01 , 3:19 , 3:27 , 3:48
Can we get a citation on possible contact between roman and chinese armies? I'd love to read more about that.
在中国西安农村，仍然有一群人，是两千多年前罗马军队的后裔，他们长着蓝眼睛黄头发。
Doing this for history homework 👍👍
great video, very informing. Almost at 4M subscribers!!!!
keep up the great work guys congrats on almost 4 milly
who is watching in 2017???
me lol!!!
I like how these videos cover such a range of topics, from new scientific discoveries to historic events that one would learn in middle school. I hadn't thought about the silk road in probably a few years.
make sure to sub, like, and rate me!! Thanks for the amazing support guys!!
Version 2 of this should talk about finance.
Mathematics also spread at this time. Like number system,decimal system etc. I can say Asia and middle East influenced this world the most.