北师大版九年级英语全一册The Silk Road_2.pptVIP

* The Silk Road of Southwestern China The origin of the name As the road to the west was popularly known for its trade of silk, which was priced as valuable as gold, that commercial route came to be known as the Silk Road. It is very hard to say exactly when the Silk Road started. Many incoherent small scale trade routes have existed long long ago, they can be considered as the earliest Silk Road beginning form. Beginning The Silk Road formally started after Zhang Qian’s as an envoy to Western Han Dynasty. He went there twice separately in 138 B.C and 119 B.C, who plays an imp