... started. Intellectual, literary, and artistic endeavors revived and flourished. It is often compared to the renaissance period in Italy.(Spencer 157). Technological advances marked this period of time. Silk was traded from the Silk Route. After about 200 years, Han rule was interrupted briefly and then restored for another 200 years. The Han rulers, however, were unable to adjust to what centralization ... Genghis thought that this would hurt the Mongols. In those times, a lot of Mongols were illiterate. The Mongols rejuvenated the Silk Road, in which the isolation came to an end. Marco...

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• Grade Level: High School

... started. Intellectual, literary, and artistic endeavors revived and flourished. It is often compared to the renaissance period in Italy.(Spencer 157). Technological advances marked this period of time. Silk was traded from the Silk Route. After about 200 years, Han rule was interrupted briefly and then restored for another 200 years. The Han rulers, however, were unable to adjust to what centralization ... Genghis thought that this would hurt the Mongols. In those times, a lot of Mongols were illiterate. The Mongols rejuvenated the Silk Road, in which the isolation came to an end. Marco...

• Word Count: 1883
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... to trading. The thing about trading that was most noticeable was that, each dynasty would use one of the two major trade routes (The Indian Ocean Trade Route or the Silk Road), sometimes even both. Then, with religion, people would stay to the teachings of Buddhism, but others would say that Confucianism was better. There was also the culture of the Chinese ... ...

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• Grade Level: High School