Instructional Video3:38
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The Silk Roads: Ideas and Religion: The silk roads and religious movements

12th - Higher Ed
What were the major religions that moved along the silk roads? What items moved from west to east?<br/>
The Silk Roads: Ideas and Religion, Part 1
Instructional Video6:06
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The Silk Roads: Ideas and Religion: Nestorian Christianity

12th - Higher Ed
How well received was this form of religion and why did the Mongols favor it? What was Xi'an like during the Tang dynasty?<br/>
The Silk Roads: Ideas and Religion, Part 4
Instructional Video32:59
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The Silk Roads: The movement of ideas and religion

12th - Higher Ed
Frances Wood, SOAS Research Associate gives a talk on the importance of the Silk Roads in the movement of ideas and religions across Central Asia, from Buddhism to Nestorian Christianity.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Cultural Syncretism in Central Asia

9th - 10th
In the third century BCE, between the Greek-influenced Seleucid Empire and the Indian Mauryan Empire lay a small and prosperous kingdom called Bactria. This video is about cultural syncretism--the blending of cultures. What kinds of...