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and wealth; China, under the Han dynasty, was no exception to this trend. To illustrate, the Silk Road, a trading route interconnecting Europe, Asia, and North Africa/Middle East was named after China’s main cash crop, silk, which was prized for its soft smoothness and durability, in Rome, the Middle East, and other civilizations. This meant that merchants had a large impact in and outside China. The big silk trade also led

Story of Silk Road,” by Joshuah Bearman, he writes about Ross Ulbricht, describing the history and the founder of this underground black market named the “Silk Road.” In 2011, Ross Ulbricht, a materials scientist, started a new way to sell and buy drugs. An ideology of a libertarian utopia, free from governments prying eyes would be the basis of this site. Dreaming of a website that would be a black market to buy and sell drugs, Ulbricht created and fostered what he would call “The Silk Road.” The

products to share. Since countries develop, people’s upturn living standards they have the ability and want to buy more goods from out of the countries, so trade between countries calls international trade also as part of the international business. The Silk Road is one of the ways to trade between China to other countries, through the road they exchange things like agriculture products, culture, knowledge, and other technology. The most product people are trading is food, in the market, we always can

History Due Date: 11/9/15 Period: 5 Chloe Hinton The Silk Roads were an established trading route between Western Rome and China`s Han Dynasty. This trade network included land and maritime routes. Due to these various trading mechanisms, many products could be traded to many different locations. The patterns of interaction that occurred along the Silk Road from 200 B.C.E. to 1450 C.E. show that changes and continuities regarding the Silk Road included products traded, cultural expressions and

3. Describe the Silk Road and its use and effect in China and the West. The Silk Road and its use and effect in China and the West can be best described as the primary trade routes from China to Italy, specifically Rome. The name Silk Road would lead one to think it was simply a road traveled much like traveling from North Carolina to California using Interstate 40. The Silk Road was much more than that. The trade routes of the Silk Road had a great and long lasting effect on China and the West

things amongst countries. One of the most outstanding trade routes in the past was the Silk Road found in China. It was a route used by many people to travel and transport goods such as silk, paper, livestock, jewels, and much more, from East to West China. It consisted of land and sea routes, which made transportation and traveling convenient for man in that time period. There were many items traded along the Silk Road that had a profound impact on the development of the cultures, religions and other

they are similar in the sense that trade, from 600 to 1400 BCE, caused a significant change in their beliefs and practices, as well as aided them in their diffusion. The Silk Road, an international trade route between China and the Mediterranean, played an important role in the spread of both Christianity and Buddhism. The Silk Road was responsible for facilitation of the movement of goods between regions and peoples, but it also served a bigger purpose in exposing otherwise isolated towns and villages

other’s existence. In this ancient world, there was no connection of the two civilizations, no trade in commerce or culture. It was not until the second century BC that Europe and Eastern Asia interacted in a significant way. What is known as “The Silk Road” was established during the Han Dynasty of China, it was a network of trade routes that created a link between these two regions during this ancient world (ancient.eu). Though these routes have history prior to the Han Dynasty, this is when many

The Silk Road – The World’s First Global Highway The Silk Road is a label applied to a number of trading routes that began in China and flowed west toward the Mediterranean Sea. The Silk Road itself is not a single road, built or financed by silk. In this sense the name Silk Road is akin to the name Underground Railroad given to the escape routes in the United States of southern slaves into the north during the antebellum period. There was no railroad and the escape routes tended not to be underground

what types of goods they traded. During the era of The Silk Road, The Indian Ocean Trade Network, and the Trans-Saharan Trade Network; religions constantly spread throughout the use of these routes. The spread of Buddhism was apparent in China, because of their use of the Buddhist monasteries for trade. During the period of instability in China, Buddhist monks were involved and aided in the trade of silk and other luxury goods on The Silk Road and their religious ideas spread. Because of the time