FYE 101 - Contact: Geography, Resources, and Cultures Along Eurasia’s Historical Trade Routes

Globalization is not a new phenomenon. For thousands of years, links between people who began trading physical resources evolved into connections that spread cultural practices, artistic styles, religions, philosophical ideas, and technologies. Our First Year Experience explores the history, cultures, and material artifacts of what is commonly known as the “Silk Road,” the historical network of trade routes that extended from East Asia and the Indian subcontinent through Central Asia and the Middle East into the Mediterranean region. Four interdisciplinary perspectives – Classics, Geology, History, and Museum Studies – will provide us with different tools to understand the history of contact across Eurasia. Scientific testing of objects in Wheaton’s Permanent Collection, together with analysis of historical documents and literature, will reveal valuable information about human networks in the past and their legacy in the present day

Credits 1

Compass Attributes
First Year Experience