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Impact Of The Silk Road On Europe

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The Silk Road was a ancient trade route that was used from Asia, Europe and Africa. This was very useful to all of these places because they were able to trade items they don't need to get items back that they needed. The Silk road started at 120 Bc and lasted until 450 Ce. Since it went on for so long there were many things that had a big impact on Europe and Asia. The Silk Road had the biggest impact on Asia and Europe because of the spreading of religions, the four great Chinese inventions, trading items and by disease. Asia used the silk road to trade silk in order to receive gold and ideas, Europe traded gold in order to receive fragrances, jewels, ivory, sugar and also, sent European pictures and luxury goods. Africa traded rare timbers, gold,ivory,animals and spices. They recieved anything they could because they were so big. Because of all of the items they traded everyone was able to survive because they had a mix of everything. This Impacted Asia and Europe because they gained goods that they needed and distributed goods they didn't need so they were able to thrive.
Asia invented 3 items which helped them thrive during the Silk road. The 3 inventions were gunpowder paper printing and the compass. Gunpowder helped weapons, paper and printing helped write history down draw and to manage things and the compass helped navigate through the silk road because it was dangerous. These inventions helped Asia because everyone was interested in them and they were willing to

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