~KUBLAI KHAN~ <script> window.defaultStatus="Diary of a traveller-Kublai Khan"; </script> <img style="position: absolute; top:90; left:70" src="http:i237.photobucket.com/albums/ff309/vicshalyn/joint-kublaikhan.jpg"> <script language=JavaScript>  </script> <style type="text/css"> A:link {text-decoration:none; font:9px tahoma; color:686455; text-transform:uppercase} A:visited {text-decoration:none; font:9px tahoma; color:686455; text-transform:uppercase} A:hover {cursor:crosshair; color:b9a894; border-bottom:1px solid #b9a894} body { background-color:fffacd; cursor:vertical-text; font:9px century gothic; color:maroon; text-align:center; scrollbar-face-color:deb887; scrollbar-highlight-color:f5deb3; scrollbar-3dlight-color:f5deb3; scrollbar-shadow-color:faf7ec; scrollbar-darkshadow-color:faf7ec; scrollbar-track-color:faf7ec; scrollbar-arrow-color:8b4513} background:fffacd; padding-top:2; padding-right:3; font:15pt georgia; font-weight:bold; color:a0522d; text-align:center; text-transform:uppercase; letter-spacing:-3; line-height:10pt; border-bottom:0px solid #f29ab7} .2{ background:b0e0e6; font:10px palatino linotype; font-weight:bold; color:bebebe; text-transform:uppercase; text-align:left} .time{ font:8pt georgia; font-weight:bold; color:2f4f4f; text-align:right; text-transform:uppercase; border-bottom:2px dotted #f41f47} b{font:8pt tahoma; font-weight:bold; color:f934b1; text-transform:uppercase} u{color:a2cd3a; border-bottom:1px dashed #aeebfa; letter-spacing:-1} i{font:10px tahoma; font-style:italic; color:6cb9d5} s{font:7px small fonts; color:b2b7e2; text-transform:uppercase} </style><meta name='google-adsense-platform-account' content='ca-host-pub-1556223355139109'/> <meta name='google-adsense-platform-domain' content='blogspot.com'/> <style type="text/css">@import url(https://www.blogger.com/static/v1/v-css/navbar/3334278262-classic.css); div.b-mobile {display:none;} </style> </head><noembed><body><script type="text/javascript"> function setAttributeOnload(object, attribute, val) { if(window.addEventListener) { window.addEventListener('load', function(){ object[attribute] = val; }, false); } else { window.attachEvent('onload', function(){ object[attribute] = val; }); } } </script> <div id="navbar-iframe-container"></div> <script type="text/javascript" src="https://apis.google.com/js/platform.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript"> gapi.load("gapi.iframes:gapi.iframes.style.bubble", function() { if (gapi.iframes && gapi.iframes.getContext) { gapi.iframes.getContext().openChild({ url: 'https://www.blogger.com/navbar/6080290773791365201?origin\x3dhttp://diary-s-traveller.blogspot.com', where: document.getElementById("navbar-iframe-container"), id: "navbar-iframe" }); } }); </script></noembed> <div style="position:absolute; top:480; left:330; width:300; background:faf7ec" id="entry"> <div class=1>Saturday, August 25, 2007</div> <div class=2>~Introduction of the Silk Road~</div> <p><div style="clear:both;"></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLcai8KVElRspBqBHFY6Gs_CyFV8s7EGuct82Ta4LBIE61aKtmqzJd1030pWDkIYyyemV-9mAojEAMtkvsjpHoZO7uRUtFkF_m20IjglN0vCRMsXSwYngPr7f9Qc7aGSYvjuiEUeY_p8s/s1600-h/zii.gif"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5103320991543655970" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 343px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 233px" height="225" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLcai8KVElRspBqBHFY6Gs_CyFV8s7EGuct82Ta4LBIE61aKtmqzJd1030pWDkIYyyemV-9mAojEAMtkvsjpHoZO7uRUtFkF_m20IjglN0vCRMsXSwYngPr7f9Qc7aGSYvjuiEUeY_p8s/s320/zii.gif" width="329" border="0" /></a><a href="http://www.east-site.com/about-silkroad"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">http://www.east-site.com/about-silkroad</span></a><br /><div><strong><em><span style="font-size:180%;color:#cc6600;">~Introduction of the Silk </span></em></strong><br /><strong><em><span style="font-size:180%;color:#cc6600;">Road~</span></em></strong><br /></div><br /><div align="center"><strong><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#660000;"></span></strong></div><br /><div align="left"><strong><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#660000;"></span></strong></div><br /><div align="left"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#660000;"><strong>The primary currency of that trade was silk, and thus the term "silk road" refers to the paths traveled in the pursuit of trade for silk. It </strong></span></div><div align="left"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#660000;"><strong>denotes a network of trails and trading posts, oases and emporia connecting East Asia to the Mediterranean.The Silk Road served as an important communication link between cultures and economies.</strong></span></div><br /><div align="left"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#660000;"><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#ff6600;"><span style="color:#cc6600;"></span></span></strong></span></div><br /><div align="left"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#660000;"><strong><span style="font-size:180%;color:#ff6600;"><span style="color:#cc6600;">Description: </span><span style="font-size:130%;color:#660000;">It stretches 5000 miles.</span> </span>The area covered by the Silk Road is one of the largest landlocked regions of the world. It has deserts, mountains, few navigable waterways, and soil that does not lend itself to extensive crop agriculture.</strong></span></div><br /><div align="left"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:180%;color:#cc6600;"><strong></strong></span></div><br /><div align="left"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:180%;color:#cc6600;"><strong>Benefits of Trade: <span style="font-size:130%;color:#660000;">At first, trade was probably carried mainly by diplomatic envoys of China and the countries of central Asia. Later, however, it became the monopoly of a wide variety of merchants. </span></strong></span></div><br /><div align="left"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:arial;color:#660000;"><strong><span style="color:#cc6600;"></span></strong></span></span></div><br /><div align="left"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:arial;color:#660000;"><strong><span style="color:#cc6600;">1.</span> Trade encouraged the meeting of cultures and the settlement of foreigners.</strong></span></span></div><br /><div align="left"><span style="font-size:130%;"><strong><span style="font-family:Arial;color:#660000;"><span style="color:#cc6600;">2.</span>Trade brought new ideas, new food, diverse cultures and religions to a country.</span></strong></span></div><br /><div align="left"><span style="font-size:130%;"><strong><span style="font-family:Arial;color:#660000;"><span style="color:#cc6600;">3.</span>Trade allowed the economy of a country to prosper, the development of major trade centers and of taking in the new cultures and knowledge. </span></strong></span></div><br /><div align="left"><strong><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:180%;color:#cc6600;"></span></strong></div><br /><div align="left"><em><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:130%;"></span></em></div><br /><div align="left"><strong><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:130%;color:#660000;"></span></strong></div><br /><div align="left"><strong><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:130%;color:#660000;"></span></strong></div><br /><div align="left"><strong><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:130%;color:#660000;"></span></strong></div><br /><div align="left"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#660000;"><strong></strong></span></div><br /><div align="left"><strong><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:130%;color:#660000;"></span></strong></div><br /><div align="left"><strong><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:130%;color:#660000;"></span></strong></div><br /><div align="left"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:130%;color:#660000;"><strong></strong></span></div><br /><div align="left"></div><br /><div align="left"><strong><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:130%;color:#660000;"></span></strong></div><br /><div align="left"><strong><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:130%;color:#660000;"></span></strong></div><br /><div align="left"><strong><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:130%;color:#660000;"></span></strong></div><br /><div align="left"><strong><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:130%;color:#660000;"></span></strong></div><br /><div align="left"><br /><br /></div><br /><div align="center"><strong><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:130%;color:#660000;"></span></strong></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><div align="center"><strong><span style="font-family:Arial;font-size:130%;color:#660000;"></span></strong></div><div style="clear:both; padding-bottom:0.25em"></div><p class="blogger-labels">Labels: <a rel='tag' href="http://diary-s-traveller.blogspot.com/search/label/Description%20and%20Intro%20of%20the%20Silk%20Road">Description and Intro of the Silk Road</a></p> <p class=time>XOXO NAME</p><p> <p> </DIV> <div style="position:absolute; top:480; left:114; width:160; background:#FFFFFF" id="navigation"> <div class=1>♥ welcome</div> <br>KUBLAI KHAN'S DIARY <br><br> <div class=2>site info</div> This is the diary of the traveller, Kublai Khan.<br> <br><br> <div class=1>About the Yuan Ruler</div> <b>Name: Kublai Khan</b> <br>Also known by the nickname:Setsen Khan or the Wise Khan<br> Lifespan:1215-1294<br> He died at the age of 79<br> Nationality:Mongol<br> <br><br> <br><br> <div class=2>credits</div> <br>Hosts + <a href="http://www.blogger.com">1</a> . <a href="http://www.photobucket.com">2</a> <br>Basecodes + <a href="http://www.sliquee.blogspot.com">Sab</a><a href="http://blogskins.com/me/prideavenued">rina</a> <br>Images + <a href="http://photobucket.com">1</a>Images + <a href="http://photobucket.com"></a> <br>Font + <a href="http://juvenilecasualty.net ">1</a> <a href="http://juvenilecasualty.net">2</a> . <a href="http://moargh.de">3</a> . <a href="http://romance-box.org">4</a> <br>Designer + <a href="http://www.mixedabsolution.blogspot.com">EST</a><a href="http://blogskins.com/me/xue4848">HER</a> <br>Editor + GIMP <br><br> <div class=2>tagboard</div><br>  <div align="center" id="cboxdiv"> <iframe frameborder="0" width="160" height="305" src="http://www2.cbox.ws/box/?boxid=1537976&boxtag=4105&sec=main" marginheight="2" marginwidth="2" scrolling="auto" allowtransparency="yes" name="cboxmain" style="border:#F6F3E0 1px solid;" id="cboxmain"></iframe><br/> <iframe frameborder="0" width="160" height="75" src="http://www2.cbox.ws/box/?boxid=1537976&boxtag=4105&sec=form" marginheight="2" marginwidth="2" scrolling="no" allowtransparency="yes" name="cboxform" style="border:#F6F3E0 1px solid;border-top:0px" id="cboxform"></iframe> </div>  <br><br></body></html>