Social Sciences and History / Unit 5 SSH 0413 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Steppes and the Silk Roads
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The idea
About fifteen hundred BCE climate change turned the eastern steppe to herding from horseback. The Xiongnu fought the Han for the Silk Roads; the Han appeased, then attacked. After the Han fell, steppe states rose in the north.
In practice
Luxury goods moving between China, India and the Middle East.
Where people slip
The Northern Wei adopted Chinese ways and lost its people's loyalty.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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