Quiz · Science and Healing
Three Fingers on the Wrist: How Medicine Crossed the Silk Road
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Watch or rewatch the film: Three Fingers on the Wrist: How Medicine Crossed the Silk RoadQuestion 1 of 2Historians say medical skills seldom crossed as written plans. How did they mostly travel?
Skills moved with physicians, engineers and craftsmen who were carried off or called to court. The film ends the same way: the pulse method traveled because people did.
Source: EP09 claim M42 (Allsen 2001); closing also M39 (Tansuqnama, Persian, 1313); narrated at 07:11 of 09:34 (75%)
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The answer: In people: doctors and craftsmen
Skills moved with physicians, engineers and craftsmen who were carried off or called to court. The film ends the same way: the pulse method traveled because people did.
Source: EP09 claim M42 (Allsen 2001); closing also M39 (Tansuqnama, Persian, 1313); narrated at 07:11 of 09:34 (75%)
Question 2 of 2Rashid al-Din rose to be vizier of the Ilkhans in 1298. How had he first served the court?
Born into a Jewish family in Hamadan, Rashid al-Din became a Muslim, served Abaqa as a doctor, and built a foundation with a hospital in Tabriz.
Source: EP09 claims M38 (Britannica, “Rashid al-Din”), M37; narrated at 06:40 of 09:34 (69%)
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The answer: As a physician to the Ilkhan Abaqa
Born into a Jewish family in Hamadan, Rashid al-Din became a Muslim, served Abaqa as a doctor, and built a foundation with a hospital in Tabriz.
Source: EP09 claims M38 (Britannica, “Rashid al-Din”), M37; narrated at 06:40 of 09:34 (69%)
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These questions were drafted with AI assistance from the film’s researched script and its sources, and reviewed before publishing.