https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/world-history/x66f79d8a:regional-webs/x66f79d8a:the-silk-roads-5-7/a/activity-opener-world-travelers 2026-06-30T12:40:47.173333589Z Activity: World Travelers Use your critical thinking skills to decipher what Marco Polo was describing in excerpts from his book. What do you think Europeans thought about Polo's "discoveries" in Asia? article https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/world-history/x66f79d8a:regional-webs/x66f79d8a:the-silk-roads-5-7/a/article-archipelago-of-trade 2025-08-12T03:52:41.296842565Z Archipelago of Trade A highly sophisticated and expansive commercial network developed in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries able to move things, ideas, and germs throughout Afro-Eurasia. article https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/world-history/x66f79d8a:regional-webs/x66f79d8a:the-silk-roads-5-7/a/activity-silk-roads-simulation 2026-06-30T12:40:47.173333589Z Activity: Silk Roads Simulation Learn how the Silk Roads connected Afro-Eurasian societies through the exchange of goods, technology, and ideas. article https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/world-history/x66f79d8a:regional-webs/x66f79d8a:the-silk-roads-5-7/v/watch-rebuilding-the-silk-road-world-history-project-beta 2026-06-30T12:40:47.173333589Z Rebuilding the Silk Road The Han Dynasty’s management of the Silk Road helped link together smaller regional networks and support trade across Asia. But when the Han Dynasty fell, the Silk Road did not collapse. Many of the traders at the time came from Central Asia and operated in smaller circuits, and other empires stepped in to provide stability until the Tang Dynasty, when Chinese imperial power recovered and a golden age was launched. World History Project video https://cdn.kastatic.org/googleusercontent/Rfd-TqG5LGaWHhlQFTvNH-6kZThHTMAbNVca3KcmhSWB6-RxS7lAg5Hkd1gVAnC57spRSx_feeksd8d9XXY_W5tG Rebuilding the Silk Road The Han Dynasty’s management of the Silk Road helped link together smaller regional networks and support trade across Asia. But when the Han Dynasty fell, the Silk Road did not collapse. Many of the traders at the time came from Central Asia and operated in smaller circuits, and other empires stepped in to provide stability until the Tang Dynasty, when Chinese imperial power recovered and a golden age was launched. https://cdn.kastatic.org/ka-youtube-converted/vBz2AkfQHjA.mp4/vBz2AkfQHjA.mp4 524 The Silk Roads | 5.7 https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/world-history/x66f79d8a:regional-webs/x66f79d8a:the-silk-roads-5-7/a/activity-ccot-empires-and-beliefs-to-regional-webs 2026-06-30T12:40:47.173333589Z Activity: CCOT—Empires and Beliefs to Regional Webs Continue to examine continuity and change over time by making two claims about what changed—and what stayed the same. article https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/world-history/x66f79d8a:regional-webs/x66f79d8a:the-silk-roads-5-7/a/activity-closer-quiz-master-origins 2026-06-30T12:40:47.173333589Z Activity: Quiz Master In this activity, you'll create a quiz to test your classmates' understanding of the lesson. article https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/world-history/x66f79d8a:regional-webs/x66f79d8a:the-silk-roads-5-7/v/early-silk-road 2022-10-11T01:58:02.027441565Z The Silk Road An overview of how the early Silk Road(s) facilitated trade and the spread of ideas, technology, disease and religion across Eurasia in the beginning of the Common Era. video https://cdn.kastatic.org/googleusercontent/9dUnUB7kTP8HNwJob5MJRe2_S8ej-hlIVFr5Lt7s_gZfzcREFEGEhshvg0x04PuN_y6_HwIS0U5A3pOdtz7Di7yQPQ The Silk Road An overview of how the early Silk Road(s) facilitated trade and the spread of ideas, technology, disease and religion across Eurasia in the beginning of the Common Era. https://cdn.kastatic.org/ka-youtube-converted/lLeIclx2lAU.mp4/lLeIclx2lAU.mp4 414 The Silk Roads | 5.7 https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/world-history/x66f79d8a:regional-webs/x66f79d8a:the-silk-roads-5-7/e/5-6-practice 2026-06-30T12:40:47.173333589Z The Silk Road Practice what you learned in lesson 5.6! Jessica Shattuck exercise