Pick a topic for a research report. researching the silk road and the spread of goods and ideas leads to many fascinating topics. the potential topics suggested on the next screen are all related to the silk road. if you are not interested in some aspect of the silk road, think about the other people, time periods, or places you have studied in world history. scan the appropriate sections of your textbook, go to grolier’s online encyclopedia, or use yahooligans or ask jeeves kids to learn a little about the topics that look the most interesting. by the end of today’s lesson, you should have decided on a topic you’d like to research.

some ideas to get you thinking about the silk road include:

geography of the route or a particular region
a city or cities on the silk road
people along the route
transportation over time
archaeology
cyrus
darius
alexander the great

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