Course Guide ~ HIST 124 / The Silk Road

Information from the Asia For Educators (AFE) site at Columbia University.

Clicking on the Chinese characters for each of the dynasty will bring up a list of the emperors (in Chinese) for each of the respective dynasty.

IDP is a ground-breaking international collaboration to make information and images of all manuscripts, paintings, textiles and artefacts from Dunhuang and archaeological sites of the Eastern Silk Road freely available on the Internet and to encourage their use through educational and research programmes.

The Indo-European family of languages.

Omniglot is an encyclopedia of writing systems and languages. Contents include:
* Details of more than 180 writing systems, including Abjads, Alphabets, Abugidas, Syllabaries and Semanto-phonetic scripts.
* Information on over 600 languages.
* More than 300 con-scripts - writing systems invented by visitors to the site.
* Tips on learning languages.
* Language related articles
* Useful foreign phrases in more than 150 languages with many audio recordings.
* Multilingual texts, language names, country names, colors, numbers, idioms, time expressions, kinship words, tongue twisters, signs, proverbs and sayings and songs in many languages.
* Numerous links to online language-related resources.

This is an incomplete listing of some very bad things that happened before the 20th Century.

Silk Road Seattle is an ongoing public education project using the "Silk Road" theme to explore cultural interaction across Eurasia from the beginning of the Common Era (A. D.) to the Seventeenth Century.