The Silk Road: Historys first world wide web - Shannon Harris Castelo

View full lesson: With modern technology, a global exchange of goods and ideas can happen at the click of a button. But what about 2,000 years ago? Shannon Harris Castelo unfolds the history of the 5,000-mile Silk Road, a network of multiple routes that used the common language of commerce to connect the world’s major settlements, thread by thread. Lesson by Shannon Harris Castelo, animation by Steff