The Silk Road and Ancient Trade: Crash Course World History #9
The Silk Road and Ancient Trade: In which John Green teaches you about the so-called Silk Road, a network of trade routes where goods such as ivory, silver, iron, wine, and yes, silk were exchanged...
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Hi there, I’m John Green, this is Crash Course: World History, and today we’regonna talk about the Silk Road, so called because it was not a road and not made of silk.So this is a t-shirt. It was designed in Belgium and contains cotton from both Brazil and theTexas, which was turned into cloth in China, stitched in Haiti, screen-printed in the Washington,sold to me in Indiana, and now that I am too fat to wear it, it will soon make its wayto Cameroon or Honduras or possibly even back to Haiti.Can we just pause for a moment to consider the astonishing fact that most t-shirts seemore of the World than most of us do—Mr. Green Mr. Green the t-shirt can’t see the world because they don’t have eyes—Look, me from the past, it’s difficult for me to isolate...
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Hi there, I’m John Green, this is Crash Course: World History, and today we’regonna talk about the Silk Road, so called because it was not a road and not made of silk.So this is a t-shirt. It was designed in Belgium and contains cotton from both Brazil and theTexas, which was turned into cloth in China, stitched in Haiti, screen-printed in the Washington,sold to me in Indiana, and now that I am too fat to wear it, it will soon make its wayto Cameroon or Honduras or possibly even back to Haiti.Can we just pause for a moment to consider the astonishing fact that most t-shirts seemore of the World than most of us do—Mr. Green Mr. Green the t-shirt can’t see the world because they don’t have eyes—Look, me from the past, it’s difficult for me to isolate...
