• The Three Beginnings of the Silk Road: the historical, the legendary, the scholarly

• All about Silk: From Moriculture to Sericulture

• Contact Along the Silk Road
  • Merchants and the establishment of Trade
  • Diplomacy and warfare
  • Exploration and colonization
  • Monasticism and missionaries

• Peoples of the Silk Road
  • Han Chinese
  • Tang Chinese
  • Sogdians
  • Uighurs
  • Mongols
  • Tibetans
  • Arabs
  • Persians

• Religions of the Silk Road
  • Buddhism
  • Islam
  • Manichaeism
  • Christianity
  • Hinduism
  • Zoroastrianism
  • Judaism

• Other “Silk Roads” and the Modern World