So You Want to Be a Silk Roads Traveler: A Premodern Survival Guide from Europe to Asia (and Back Again)

3 credits · Undergraduate credit

This course takes an up-close look at world history by bringing to life moments of contact between diverse travelers from Italy to the Middle East; Armenia to Central Asia; Japan to China. Together, we'll shed light on the pathways that make up what is popularly known as the "Silk Roads," a network of routes that spanned the Eurasian world.