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REFLECTION
Renaissance
Europe
• Over
the years, we’ve all met someone or had an
experience that changed the way we see or understand
certain things.
– Write about a time in your life where an event, person,
and/or people changed your
values, beliefs, or attitudes.
Changes in worldview
E.G. Moving to junior high,
travelling, etc.
The Renaissance is a story about…
• contact
among people.
• Throughout
this chapter,
you will explore how
contact with other
groups is one of three
factors that shaped the
worldview in western
Europe.
The Silk Road
• What was the Silk Road?
• https://youtu.be/vn3e37VWc0k?list=PLUakfN_pLe7dnEr
p0CREynhSRyHeS8UkX
Look at the map on page 14 of your text
• In the 4th
century, to
prevent civil war,
the empire was
divided into two.
• What are the
modern day
countries for
these empires?
Stories from the Silk Road…
A long, long time ago there was no silk cloth to make clothes
from because it had not yet been discovered. One day the
Chinese Emperor’s wife Xi Ling was sitting under a mulberry
tree, drinking a hot cup of tea. Suddenly there was a splash!
Something had fallen out of the tree and into Xi Ling’s tea. Xi
Ling peered inside the cup. It was a caterpillar’s cocoon. She
tried to fish it out of her tea, but she noticed that as soon as
she touched the wet cocoon, it dissolved into a beautiful, silky
thread. Xi Ling took the thread and wove it into a cloth and
called it silk. Everyone loved the silk cloth and soon people
began to raise the caterpillars (which they renamed
silkworms) and harvested the silk thread to make silk cloth.
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Stories from the Silk Road…
How silk was discovered
• Is
The silk road
this a myth, a folktale or a legend? Why?
• Is
the Empress’ status an important part of this
story? Why do you think she is credited with
discovering silk?
• Why is
this story told?
Other goods transported along the
trade route:
• Abacus
• Lapis
Lazuli
• Amethyst
• Paper
• Money
• Bamboo
• Perfume
Paper
– Camera
Obscura
– Bronze
– Spices
– Cedar Tea
– Turquoise
– Cloisonne
– Umbrellas
– Cosmetics
– Wool
– Fur
– Glass
– Gold
– Iron
Goods
transported
from?
– Ivory
The Silk Road
• Above
all, the most important things that were
passed along the road were ideas and knowledge.
• Understandings of religion, science, technology,
philosophy, music and mathematics
• How
are trade goods transported today?
– land, rail, air, and water transportation much faster
– travel much safer from piracy and bandits in most areas than in the
Middle Ages
– size of shipments much larger
This led to à SHARING OF
WORLDVIEWS!!!!
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Think about how difficult it was to move trade
goods from China to Italy in the Middle Ages.
Compare the transportation of those trade goods to
how they would be transported today
– less contact amongst traders — usually point to point, rather than
through middle men
– direct ordering, not through traders
– uses gas or other fuel as energy, not animal feed
– most trade would be by ocean or air, and not use
the land route
Role of Islamic civilization
• Begins
in the 7t h century spreading
from the Arabian Penisula.
moved westward across North
Africa.
The Dark Ages… was the world
without any knowledge?
https://www.youtube.com/wat
ch?v=xp1wJgfeRHQ
Role of Islamic civilization
• Trade
between far east and Europe was
controlled by Muslim middlemen.
• It
750, what is now Spain was
under Muslim control.
• Muslim
empire were the centers of
learning. Not such a dark era after all!
• By
• To
the east, Islam spread through
what is now Iraq and Iran, into
India, and continued to the islands
of Indonesia.
• How
did the geographic location of the Islamic
Empire made it a center for learning and
discovery from 750 to 1100. Use the map of the
Silk Road to help you answer.
– Islamic empire controlled trade routes since it was the center of the then
known world
– Islamic empire on the eastern shores of the Mediterranean, the trade
center of Europe. Merchant ships from the west went there to trade.
– Islamic empire was at the end of the Silk Road: goods and materials from
the far east and the west were all moved through its trading centers.
– Astrolabe – aid to navigation uses the
location of stars and planets.
– Took mathematical ideas from India and
refined them into the understanding of
numbers we have today.
How did the geographic location of the
Islamic Empire made it a center for
learning and discovery from 750 to 1100.
Use the map of the Silk Road to help you
answer.
– Since most trade occurred through its cities, new ideas arose from the
new goods and materials that people saw and uses
– technologies from the far east reached the Islamic empire, because it
was at the end of the Silk Road, and Islamic scientists refined and
studied these technologies. Existing and new documents and books
were exchanged in this area resulting in expanded scholarship and
study.
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Answer the reflect and respond
questions:
Homework:
Questions 2 and 3
Summarize
pages 16 – 18.
in your Social Studies book
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