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Classroom Connections: The Silk Roads with Peter Frankopan

Becca Horowitz

From Silk to Spice to Classroom Advice

Peter Frankopan just took us on a journey down the Silk Roads—routes that carried way more than just silk! From technologies and religions to entire cultures on the move, these networks connected Afro-Eurasia in fascinating ways.

Now it’s your turn: What new ideas or classroom moves did you pick up from his talk? How might you help your world history students trace the threads of continuity and change across time and place?

Drop your takeaways (and maybe your favorite Silk Roads fact!) below—let’s trade some teaching treasures of our own.

  • One thing I really liked was how much of his talk was covered by OER materials.  Not the falcon bit that struck me out of left field.  Also, I just feel so privileged when i get to here experts just do their thing.  I am so thankful for the opportunity.  As for CCTP, I loved the way we framed the importance of the Middle East across the centuries.  I want to find a way to help my student "discover" that pattern.  

  • Such a great opportunity to hear Peter Frankopan! I found it interesting how he connected the Silk Roads’ past to some of today’s crucial global issues. 

  • It was a wonderful presentation, and as I'm currently reading his latest book The Earth Transformed I'm thinking of incorporating more about environmental impacts on the world around historical events.  This is tied into my goals of working in the Climate Project earlier into my APWHM course since we do an abbreviated Climate Project at the end of the year.

    Another idea that I'd like to do is to connect the Silk Roads to the Belt and Road Initiative, and I've used this article from the Council of Foreign Relations, "China's Massive Belt and Road Initiative."  This can be easily incorporated later under imperialism or globalization, but even to think about other trade partnerships and routes that are being built today.