Silk Road Spice Route

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Saturday, April 22, 2006

Resources- Webpages

History of Spices

http://www.astaspice.org/history/frame_history.htm

http://www.mccormick.com/content.cfm?ID=10110&StatusCD=P


Spice EnSPICElopedia

http://www.mccormick.com/content.cfm?ID=8291

http://www.astaspice.org/spice/frame_spice.htm

List of Spices

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_herbs_and_spices

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spice

Resources- Books

The First Book of Spices by Francine Klagsbrun- Franklin Watts, Inc. NY. 1968

Salt Sugar and Spice Walter Buehr- William Morrow and Company, NY. 1969

The Magic of Spices by Joseph Dreany- G.. Putnam's Sons, NY. 1961

And Everhing Nice The Story of Sugar, Spice and Flavoring by Elisabeth K. Coper, Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc. NY, 1966

Friday, April 21, 2006

MUSLIM SCIENTISTS AND ISLAMIC CIVILIZATION

http://www.cyberistan.org/islamic/

Who Wants to Know Everything about Asia?

see the link for slides. http://euphrates.wpunj.edu/faculty/yildizm/AsiaM.ppt

Friday, April 14, 2006

Maps

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silk_route


http://www.actionquiz.com/index.html
http://www.triviaplaza.com/
http://www.maps.com/FunFacts.aspx?nav=FF#
http://www.lizardpoint.com/fun/geoquiz/index.html
http://www.harpercollege.edu/mhealy/mapquiz/menu/menu.htm
http://www.harpercollege.edu/mhealy/mapquiz/sasia/ssmenu.htm
http://www.ilike2learn.com/ilike2learn/asia3.html
http://www.iknowthat.com/com/L3?Area=L2_SocialStudies

Children’s Books

List of books for children on Asia/ Silk Road/ Spice Route


http://www.asiastore.org/books-children-s.html

NJ Standards

NJ.ART.3-4.1.5.B.2
...Explain works of art from various world cultures.
NJ.SS.7-8.6.3.C.1
...Demonstrate knowledge of ancient river valley civilizations, including Egypt, Mesopotamia, the Indus River Valley, China, and the civilizations of Africa.
NJ.SS.7-8.6.3.D.2
...Analyze the development of trade, arts, belief systems, and culture in China’s
NJ.SS.7-8.6.4.C.3
...Trace the routes of the early explorers and describe the early explorations of the Americas.
NJ.SS.7-8.6.4.D.1
...Trace the routes of the early explorers and describe the early explorations of the Americas.
NJ.SS.7-8.6.6.F.3
...Identify basic terms associated with international trade (e.g., imports, exports, quotas, embargoes, tariffs, and free trade).
NJ.SS.7-8.6.7.D.4
...Explain primary geographic causes for world trade.
NJ.SS.7-8.6.7.E.3
...Describe world patterns of resource distribution and utilization, and discuss the management and use of renewable and non-renewable resources.
NJ.SS.9-12.6.3.E.3
...Discuss the growth of trade, urbanization, and territorial and cultural expansion.
NJ.SS.9-12.6.8
STANDARD: (SOCIOLOGY AND ANTHROPOLOGY) ALL STUDENTS WILL ACQUIRE AN UNDERSTANDING OF HOW DIVERSE SOCIETIES AND THEIR CULTURES HAVE CONTRIBUTED TO THE HUMAN EXPERIENCE IN LOCAL, REGIONAL AND WORLD CONTEXTS.
NJ.SS.k-12.6.3
STANDARD: (WORLD HISTORY) ALL STUDENTS WILL DEMONSTRATE AN UNDERSTANDING OF THE IMPACT OF POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC FORCES, GEOGRAPHY, SOCIAL STRUCTURES AND CULTURE ON THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD FROM PRE-HISTORY TO THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD.
NJ.SS.K-2.6.6.C.1
...Understand that in an exchange people trade goods and services for other goods and services or for money and that they expect to benefit from the exchange.

WebQuests

http://wwwgen.bham.wednet.edu/exhome.htm

http://www.learner.org/exhibits/renaissance/exploration.html

http://www.42explore2.com/explorers.htm

http://www.blaine.k12.wa.us/bes/class/dennison/webquest/spices.htm

http://www.esu8.org/~oneill/km/explorers.htm

http://wwwbir.bham.wednet.edu/Class/hinshaw/socst/explorer/spice.htm

http://cte.jhu.edu/techacademy/web/2000/slezak/explorerindex.html

http://score.rims.k12.ca.us/activity/newworld/

http://www.spiceadvice.com/encyclopedia/encyclopedia.html

http://www.kathimitchell.com/quests.htm

http://www.kathimitchell.com/explorer.htm

http://www.silk-road.com/artl/marcopolo.shtml

http://www.silk-road.com/toc/newsletter.html

http://www.win.tue.nl/cs/fm/engels/discovery/

Educational Resources

Educational Websites:

British Library: International Dunhuang Project http://idp.bl.uk/

British Museum:
http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/features/silkroad/main.html

China the Beautiful:
http://www.chinapage.com/silkroad.html

Silk Road Project
http://www.silkroadproject.org/about/contact.html

Silk Road Foundation
http://www.silk-road.com/toc/index.html

University of Washington, Simpson Center for the Humanities
http://depts.washington.edu/silkroad/ Includes an on-line exhibition (http://depts.washington.edu/silkroad/exhibit/index.shtml , exquisite if a little confusing), themes of Cities and Architecture, Traditional Culture (gers, food, weddings, religions, dwellings, oral epics), Eurasian Geography, illustrated with excellent photographic materials, Interactive Maps Exercises section, a large selection of historical documents in translation, learning guides. Multimedia, includes video footage.

University of California Berkeley
http://www.ecai.org/silkroad/ Silk Road Atlas. Interactive maps for Land, Empires, Routes and Travel. Very interesting photographs, including a large set by Dru Gladney, University of Hawaii, one of the preeminent scholars of Muslims in China, taken in Western China and along the Chinese-Pakistani border

University of California Irvine:
http://www.ess.uci.edu/~oliver/silk.html#10

National Geographic:
http://java.nationalgeographic.com/studentatlas/clickup/silk.html
This page has links to other National Geographic resources for such important terms as spices and key religions, and also to a 3-part feature on Marco Polo