Ⅰ 絲綢之路的一些景點。用英文！！！
The Silk Road, or Silk Route, is an interconnected series of trade routes through various regions of the Asian continent mainly connecting Chang'an (today's Xi'an) in China, with Asia Minor and the Mediterranean. It extends over 8,000 km (5,000 miles) on land and sea.
Trade on the Silk Route was a significant factor in the development of the great civilizations of China, ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, Persia, India and Rome, and helped to lay the foundations for the modern world.
Silk road is a translation from the German Seidenstraße. The first person who used the term was the German geographer Ferdinand von Richthofen in 1877.
[edit] Routes
As it extends westwards from the commercial centers of North China, the continental Silk Road divides into north and south routes to avoid the Tibetan Plateau:
The northern route passes through the Bulgar–Kypchak region. It travels northwest through the Chinese province of Gansu, and splits into three further routes, two of them passing north and south of the Taklamakan desert to rejoin at Kashgar; and the other going north of the Tien Shan mountains through Turfan and Almaty. All of these routes cross high mountain passes to join up at Kokand in the Fergana Valley, and the roads continue west across the Karakum Desert towards Merv, joining the southern route briefly.
One route turns northwest along the Amu Darya (river) to the Aral Sea, through ancient civilizations under the present site of Astrakhan, and on to the Crimean peninsula. From there it crosses the Black Sea, Marmara Sea and the Balkans to Venice, another crosses the Caspian Sea and across the Caucasus to the Black Sea in Georgia, thence to Constantinople.
The southern route is mainly a single route running through northern India, then the Turkestan–Khorasan region into Mesopotamia and Anatolia; having southward spurs enabling the journey to be completed by sea from various points. It runs south through the Sichuan Basin in China and crosses the high mountains into northeast India, probably via the Ancient tea route. It then travels west along the Brahmaputra and Ganges river plains, possibly joining the Grand Trunk Road west of Varanasi. It runs through northern Pakistan and over the Hin Kush mountains to rejoin the northern route briefly near Merv.
It then follows an almost straight line west through mountainous northern Iran and the northern tip of the Syrian Desert to the Levant. From there Mediterranean trading ships plied regular routes to Italy, and land routes went either north through Anatolia or south to North Africa.
[edit] Railway
The last missing link on the Silk Road was completed in 1994, when the international railway between Almaty and Urumqi opened.
[edit] Sea
The Silk Road on the Sea extends from South China, to present-day Philippines, Brunei, Siam, Malacca, Ceylon, India, Pakistan, and Iran.
In Europe it extends from Israel, Lebanon, Egypt and Italy in the Mediterranean Sea, to Portugal and Sweden.
On August 7, 2005 it was reported that the Antiquity and Monument Office of Hong Kong was planning to propose the Silk Road on the Sea as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
[edit] Origins
[edit] Cross-continental journeys
As the domestication of efficient pack animals and the development of shipping technology both increased the capacity for prehistoric peoples to carry heavier loads over greater distances, cultural exchanges and trade developed rapidly.
In addition, grassland provides fertile grazing, water, and easy passage for caravans. The vast grassland steppes of Asia enabled merchants to travel immense distances, from the shores of the Pacific to Africa and deep into Europe, without trespassing on agricultural lands and arousing hostility.
[edit] Evidence for ancient transport and trade routes
The ancient peoples of the Sahara imported domesticated animals from Asia between 7500 and 4000 BC.
Foreign artifacts dating to the 5th millennium BC in the Badarian culture of Egypt indicate contact with distant Syria [1].
In predynastic Egypt, by the 4th millennium BC shipping was well established, and the donkey and possibly the dromedary had been domesticated. Domestication of the Bactrian camel and use of the horse for transport then followed (see Domestication of the horse).
Also by the beginning of the 4th millennium BC, ancient Egyptians in Maadi were importing pottery [2] as well as construction ideas from Canaan.
By the second half of the 4th millennium BC, the gemstone Lapis lazuli was being traded from its only known source in the ancient world — Badakshan, in what is now northeastern Afghanistan — as far as Mesopotamia and Egypt. By the third millennium BC the lapis lazuli trade was extended to Harappa and Mohenjo-daro in the Ins valley, the present day Pakistan.
Routes along the Persian Royal Road (constructed in the 5th century BC) may have been in use as early as 3500 BC. Charcoal samples found in the tombs of Nekhen, which were dated to the Naqada I and II periods, have been identified as cedar from Lebanon.
In 1994 excavators discovered an incised ceramic shard with the serekh sign of Narmer, dating to circa 3000 BC. Mineralogical studies reveal the shard to be a fragment of a wine jar exported from the Nile valley to Israel (see Narmer).
The ancient harbor constructed in Lothal, India, may be the oldest sea-faring harbor known.
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Ⅲ 求一篇關於絲綢之路的英語短文
One of the world's most ancient and historically important trade routes, the Silk Road conjures up exotic images of camel caravans, windswept deserts, and such legendary figures as Genghis Khan and Marco Polo. Extending as far as the Indian kingdoms in the west, to present-day Xian in China in the east, the Silk Road was already a crossroads of Asia by the third century B.C.
世界上最古老，歷史上最重要的貿易路線之一——絲綢之路，總給人一種富有異國情調的印象：駱駝商隊、狂風肆虐的沙漠，還有諸如成吉思汗和馬可波羅等傳奇人物。絲綢之路綿亘遠長，西至印度王國，東到中國現在的西安，早在公元前三世紀，絲綢之路就已經成為了亞洲交通的十字路口。
Ⅳ 有沒有關於絲綢之路的英文資料啊。。。
The Silk Road, or Silk Routes, are an extensive interconnected network of trade routes across the Asian continent connecting East, South, and Western Asia with the Mediterranean world, including North Africa and Europe.
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Ⅳ 絲綢之路的故事! 用英文
The Silk Road is the most well-known trading route of ancient
Chinese civilization.It grew under the Han Dynasty(202BC-AD220)
It is the trade routes through regions of the Asian Continent mainly connecting Chang'an (today's Xi'an) in Ancient China.
Chan Ch'ien, the first known Chinese traveler to make contact with the Central Asian tribes.In 138 B.C., the imperial court of the Han Dynasty sent Zhang Qian to the Western Regions as an envoy in an attempt to forge alliances which would stop raids by the Xiongnu on the dynasty』s borders.Later came up with the idea to expand the silk trade to include these lesser tribes and therefore forge alliances with these Central Asian nomads. Because of this idea, the Silk Road was born.the route grew with the rise of the Roman Empire because the Chinese initially gave silk to the Roman-Asian governments as gifts.
The 7000 mile route spanned China, Central Asia, Northern India, and the Parthian and Roman Empires. It connected the Yellow River Valley to the Mediterranean Sea and passed through places such as Chinese cities Kansu and Sinkiang and present-day countries Iran, Iraq and Syria.
絲綢之路是古中國文化中最著名的的貿易路線，它起源於漢朝（202BC-AD220）它是古中國跟亞洲其它國家的貿易樞紐，主要連接長安（現今的西安）
眾所皆知,張騫是第一個與中亞其它部落的中國人.公元前138年，為擊退匈奴對漢朝邊境地區的劫掠，漢朝派遣張騫出使西域。後來慢慢擴大了與中亞小部落之間絲綢貿易,與中亞游牧部落結盟.鑒於此想法,絲綢之種誕生了,並在羅馬帝國時期漸漸擴張,因為在那個時期,中國會將絲綢作為禮物贈送給羅馬人和亞洲人.後來..絲綢之間慢慢擴張到7000英里,涉及中國,中亞,印度北部,帕提亞(伊朗東北部古國),羅馬帝國.它連接黃河流域和地中海,途徑:中國甘肅,新疆和現今的伊朗,伊拉克和敘利亞.