The Silk Road Project

I thought that this project on the Silk Road was actually a very cool project because although it was very time consuming, I learned basically everything there is to know about the Silk Road. I thought that the research portion of the project went exceptionally well because the book was very helpful and had an in-depth portion which made everything a lot clearer. Also, Wikipanion proved to be a very beneficial source. In addition to this, the way we decided to organize our map went very well because everything was grouped based on empires and the way certain products, diseases, and religions flowed throughout the Silk Road. Making our map to scale and labeling every section of the map with physical barriers and oceans came out great on our map and everything was easily distinguishable. Lastly, our map turned out to be very eye-appealing and colorful which I was definitely excited about! On the other hand, I wasn’t really happy with how we were limited for time because of the power outage!! It became very tiring trying to draw and write in the candle light (even though our Yankee candles were smelt amazing).  Also, I was a bit annoyed with the ridiculous amount of time it required to make it perfect and draw in every last detail. I was a bit hesitant to trust the information from wikipanion because I wasn’t able to completely confide in the information since random people could have edited it. At times, it became frustrating to try and fit all of the information on the map because there was so much to describe about how things flowed and which empires did what, so at times we had to try and cram every last word in. Lastly, our poster might have become a bit hard to follow because of arrows pointing to different descriptions so I wish we had made it a little more clear.

 It was definitely difficult to do this project in the pitch black and also trying to schedule time with my partner that could work for the both us because I had work and Sabrina had practice during certain hours. My collaboration with Sabrina was a success because we both are hard-working individuals and perfectionists so we understood one another. Also, we live literally within one minute of each other since we are neighbors so we can get together very easily and asking for rides wasn’t difficult because I could just walk over when I needed to, which was very convenient.  If I had to do this project again, I would probably have focused less on trying to cram every possible detail onto the map because doing that was overly time-consuming and partially unnecessary! L Other than this, I thought that our project was great and I am really proud of what we created.