The Silk Road network is generally thought of as stretching from an eastern terminus at the ancient Chinese capital city of Chang’an (now Xi’an) to westward end-points at Byzantium (Constantinople), ...

In the Middle Ages, Damascus was a major point on the silk road from Asia and gave the name to the woven fibres known as damask. But the troubled city - known as the City of Jasmine because of its ...

review the various routes and tremendous extent of the Silk Roads with students. Ask students to help map the following cities: Chang' An (modern-day Xi'an), Turfan (or Turpan), Kashgar, the Ferghana ...

the brief conjured thoughts of Fattal’s that had been resurfacing about the Arabic trade of the Silk Road, and her own time living in the Middle East. Fattal was born and raised in Damascus ...