Silk Road Project: Map

Overall, the Silk Road map portion of the project went well.  We were able to learn all about trade with the use of the Silk Road in classical Eurasia.  The project showed the connection between all of the societies in this time period.  It helped to show how and why certain products, beliefs, and diseases either were confined to one area or were able to be spread throughout the landmass.  However, working on the project had some parts that did not go over as smoothly: we had to bring the map home and finish a vast majority of it by trying to plan around our schedules over the weekend.  Keval and I were mainly unhappy with the tediousness of drawing it to scale.  We also felt that it was difficult to draw the whole landmass itself, not just drawing it to scale.  The most difficult part was just getting it redrawn on the large poster paper accurately.  Collaboration for a project like this was much better and more beneficial than if we had to do it on our own.  It took less time to draw the map, and also write the paper, with a partner, and we were able to discuss what we thought we should draw.  If we had to do the poster again, we would not take the time to draw a grid and just make a scale in the corner to show how many inches equaled a certain number of miles.