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After the fire, the insurance adjuster gave us a form: "List all items lost, with estimated value."
My mother sat at the borrowed kitchen table and began. Sofa. Television. Dishwasher. Those were easy. Then she stopped writing.
"How do I list the height marks on the pantry door?" she asked, not really to me. "The quilt my mother finished the week before she died? The drawer of your baby teeth?"
I didn’t have an answer. That night I made my own list on the back of the form. It had no prices. At the bottom, I wrote: "Still here: Mom. Me. The dog. The recipe for Sunday pancakes, which Mom knows by heart." I left it on the table where she would find it in the morning.
The Silk Road was not a single road but a network of trade routes linking China with Central Asia, the Middle East and the Mediterranean world for more than a thousand years.
Silk from China was prized in Rome, but goods flowed in every direction: spices, glass, horses, paper, gold and porcelain. Few merchants traveled the whole distance; goods passed from trader to trader along the way.
Ideas traveled too. Buddhism spread from India into China along these routes, and technologies such as papermaking moved westward. Unfortunately, so did disease: historians believe the Black Death spread along trade routes in the 1300s.
The Silk Road shows that globalization — the connection of distant peoples through trade and ideas — is not a modern invention.
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Worksheets › Grade 9 English › Integration of Knowledge & Ideas › Integration of Knowledge & Ideas
Free Grade 9 English worksheet (Common Core RL.9-10.9): compare "Inventory" with "The Silk Road" and analyze how each develops its ideas. Skill: Compare texts and evaluate arguments. Level: Grade 9 — also suits Year 10 (UK).
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