Changes And Continuities In Silk Roads In East Asia

There is nothing quite like traveling, like seeing a new place for the first time or returning to a favorite place. As people travel from place to place, they learn new things about the way people in other cultures operate and live their daily lives. The different and unique ways that people from around the world complete and practice daily tasks can be communicated to inspire other cultures to advance their society. Between the time period of 500 B.C.E and 1000 C.E, the silk roads, primarily in the region of East Asia, exhibited changes such as the spread of different philosophies and techniques throughout the regions, while retaining continuities such as the trade of spices and the spread of the religion. These changes and continuities …show more content…
The first example region that experienced changes and continuities due to the silk roads was China. Between the years 500 B.C.E and 1000 C.E, the silk roads maintained continuity with goods that passed along its routes including Asian luxuries like jade, spices, incense, gunpowder, and silk. In the current day, China still is willing to trade and distribute materials all around the world. China produces about 80% of the world’s air-conditioners, 70% of its mobile phones and 60% of its shoes. At the same time, the silk roads changed many cultures including China. The roads allowed many different cultures in the Eastern Hemisphere to communicate and interact with one another. This interaction opened up the possibility for societies to change positively and negatively in a social and economic way. For example, in this time period, China was able to …show more content…
Between the time period of 500 B.C.E and 1000 C.E, women and merchants in the regions along the silk roads, including India, gained more value. Women were needed for the production of silk and other luxury items and therefore began to be seen as necessary to society. Merchants were originally thought of as lower because their income was based off other's work. But with the Silk Road, merchants were needed for the transportation and trade of the goods making merchants also necessary to society.This act changed the social classes immensely because lower class people were needed for the production of higher class materials. Despite the fact that there was a need for lower class people, aspects of society also stayed the same with the silk road, such as the want of luxury goods. The want for these goods by wealthy people was a continuity in India and many other regions throughout the time period of the silk roads. What changed is how the higher classes managed to get there goods. Due to the silk roads, India encountered many positive and negative changes, socially and economically, during the years of the silk roads. At the same time, Indians and other regions stood by the purpose of the trading networks and maintained cultural aspects that were important to