Draw Conclusions from the Evidence for Thinking through Sources 7
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Source 7.1 Silk Road Merchants Encounter Bandits
Source 7.2 Advice for European Merchants Traveling to China
Source 7.3 A Stop at a Caravanserai
Source 7.4A Regulations for a Community of Monks
Source 7.4B A Record of the Buddhist Kingdoms
Source 7.5 The Jesus Sutras
Source 7.6A From a Soldier on Guard Duty
Source 7.6B From an Abandoned Wife
This exercise asks you to assess the relationship between conclusions and evidence. Identify which of the following conclusions are supported by the specific piece of evidence. Click yes for those pieces of evidence that support the conclusion and no for those that do not.
The Silk Roads were largely a “relay trade” in which goods were passed down the line before reaching their final destinations.
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Silk Road trading networks prospered most when large and powerful states provided security for merchants and travelers.
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As Buddhism spread across the Silk Roads from India to Central Asia, China, and beyond, it also changed. The original faith had shunned the material world, but Buddhist monasteries in the rich oasis towns of the Silk Roads found themselves very much involved in secular affairs. Some of them became quite wealthy.
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