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The Story of India Spice Routes and Silk Roads
Title
The Story of India [electronic resource (video)] : Spice Routes and Silk Roads / Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.).
Published
New York, N.Y. : Infobase, [2009], c2008.
Physical Description
1 streaming video file (56 min.) : sd., col., digital file.
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Notes
Films on Demand is distributed by Infobase for Films for the Humanities & Sciences, Cambridge Educational, Meridian Education, and Shopware.
Encoded with permission for digital streaming by Infobase on December 12, 2009.
Closed-captioned.
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Summary
This program featuring Michael Wood takes viewers to the India of the early centuries AD, a time that saw Indian civilization grow into a major participant in the first global economy as trade enriched it through contact and exchange. The rediscovered site of Rome's most significant trading port in India and a trip to Madurai, the ancient capital of South India, offer insights into the spice trade, while a journey to Merv, in the desert of Turkmenistan, helps illustrate how North India was opened up to the world by merchant caravans using the Silk Road between China and the West.
Variant and related titles
Spice Routes and Silk Roads
Films on demand.
Other formats
Originally produced: Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.), 2008.
Format
Images / Online / Video & Film
Language
English
Added to Catalog
November 05, 2020
Series
The Story of India, with Michael Wood
Audience
10 & up.
Contents
India: 200 B.C. to 300 A.D. (1:26)
Importance of the Monsoon To Traders (1:24)
Boat Builders of Kerala, India (1:50)
India's Spice Trade (1:27)
Indian Food (1:00)
Indian-Roman Trade (1:13)
Famous Indian Port (1:46)
Living Presence of the Past (1:10)
Classical Civilization of Southern India (2:05)
Goddess of the City (1:22)
Tamil Manuscript (1:24)
Madurai: Market Place to the World (1:28)
India's Gold (1:43)
Silk Road (1:18)
Ancient Civilization of the Kushan (2:02)
Kushan Inscriptions (1:23)
Kushan Empire Flourishes (1:20)
Peshawar: Kushan Capital (2:18)
Silk: Rich Cargo (1:00)
Excavation in Peshawar (0:21)
King Kanishka's Burial Mound (2:52)
Descriptions of Kanishka's Stupa (2:10)
Buddha's Ashes (1:58)
Kushan Empire (1:15)
Kanishka's Capital in Matura (1:34)
Matura: City of the Gods (1:06)
Kushan: Bringers of Peace (0:54)
Ayurveda Medicine (1:39)
Ayurveda: Passed from Master to Student (0:59)
Buddhism in China (1:26)
Death of Kanishka (1:26)
Cycle Plays about Krishna (1:16)
Kushan Temple Ruins (1:40)
Kushan Legacy (1:30)
Videorecording number
41059s Infobase
41062 Infobase
Subjects
Genre/Form
Educational films.
Internet videos.
Videorecording.
Also listed under
Films for the Humanities & Sciences (Firm)
Infobase.
Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.)
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