The Silk Road and Ancient Trade: Crash Course World History #9

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The Silk Road and Ancient Trade: In which John Green teaches you about the so-called Silk Road, a network of trade routes where goods such as ivory, silver, iron, wine, and yes, silk were exchanged across the ancient world, from China to the West. Along with all these consumer goods, things like disease and ideas made the trip as well. As is his custom, John ties the Silk Road to modern life, and the ways that we get our stuff today.

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Resources:

Life Along the Silk Road by Susan Whitfield: http://dft.ba/-lifesilk

The Silk Road: 2000 Years in the Heart of Asia: http://dft.ba/-2000years

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[starman945]

Anybody else ready to fail tomorrow?

[Singsong423]

Good luck tomorrow guys! I know I need it. Like seriously. I'm dreading those essays... PLEASE LET THEM BE OVER SOMETHING JOHN GREEN SPECIFICALLY MENTIONED FROM CRASH COURSE... and not cricket.

[Jacob Van Buren]

I'm not a muggle how could you say that to us John?

[berny88925]

Anybody here tired of those Ap comments and are just here because you simply want to learn for self pleasure and to better yourself out?

[SP George]

What is tomorrow?

[Richard Young]

This is quite interesting.

[yinyangnature]

There's no such thing as failing. There's just an inability to be successfully indoctrinated into the reality of your established culture. As Einstein proved (considered a failure when a young man) all truth is relative. For the sky isn't blue; it's just that our nervous system assigns the colour blue to that particular frequency of light. A nervous system with a slightly different configuration may assign red or a colour unknown to the rest of us, to this very same frequency.

[Bruno Deprez]

BELGIUM!!!

[Emanuel Sygal]

Did you intentionally put a wrong "you're" right next to the mention of grammar nazis? :)

[Jenny Kim]

"For you know, food, water, and prostitutes."

There needs to be a book of all of John Green's quotes.

[Roger Moses]

@6:08

People who have a test tomorrow...

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