Good ideas travel easilyand far along trade routes, and the Silk Road was no exception to that rule. A famous example of a Chinese invention that helped to transform the world is paper. Paper was ...

Along the length of one classroom wall, create a Silk Roads map made of construction paper with the names of key cities--Chang'an (modern-day Xi'an), Turfan, Kashgar, Ferghana, aBaghdad, Damascus, ...