Teaching the Silk Road Aruna C.

Teaching the Silk Road Aruna C.Advocating a global as opposed to a Eurocentric perspective in the college classroom, discusses why and how to teach about China's Silk Road. The romance of the journey along the Silk Road with its exotic locales and luxury goods still excites the popular imagination. The trade route between China and Central Asia that flourished from about 200 BCE to the 1500s, the Silk Road can provide great insight for contemporary higher education curricula.

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Friedhelm Hardy

This chapter focuses on the effects of biotic and abiotic factors controlling soil organic carbon dynamics at continental to global scales

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A comprehensive introduction to the life and work of the preeminent expositor of perennial philosophy