This assignment requires you to use your imagination and pretend that you are a Silk Roads traveler. This submission is your diary, and you must respond to all the questions below in your diary entry. Write in the first-person.
In order to receive full credit, you must respond to all parts of the following six questions within your diary entry. You may use your notes, and the readings from Blackboard, but no additional online materials. Again, if there is any indication that you used the Internet or outside sources for this assignment, you will receive an automatic zero.
Your final response should be between 1-2 typed, double-spaced pages, or 250-600 words.
Finally, be creative and have fun with this assignment!
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Questions to respond to within your diary entry:
What is the date? either put a date (year) at the top of your diary entry, or include it in your narrative.
What is your name, and where are you from (say the CITY that you are from)?
Briefly describe the landscape/geography of the area that you come from. What kinds of challenges do you face as a result of your surrounding geography?
What is your job, and what kind of duties do you have for that job?
What is your religion? explain at least two rituals or practices that you regularly do as part of your religion.
In your travels along the Silk Roads, what are two items that you have received in a trade? Why did you need those products? What did you trade for them?
Discuss one food or meal that you have eaten to sustain yourself on your travels (the food must be something mentioned in the Fruit from the Sands: The Silk Road Origins of the Foods we Eat readings).
