Silk+Roads

Silk Road- is the land trade route connecting China to the rest of the world (Rome), running 5000 miles. The Silk Road was the preferred over other trading networks due to length, cost, and safety. This trade route was not a single 'road' or 'trail' it was more of a network of many roads and routs dispersed throughout Asia. Many of these trade routs were camel caravan routes. The trade routs were run by nomadic merchants who would see one item trade it for another passing the new item to another merchant who did the same thing until one item arrived to the Far East or west. Eastern exports were silk, species, plants/animals, manufactured goods, and other luxury goods while Western excerpts are gold, bronze statues, and colored glass. The Silk Road ran through the Parthian Empire and therefore gave the empire a strategic location. The Silk Road lasted through many dynasties the main, most famous was the Han in which trade flourished periodically.

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Created by: Benjamin Ellison September 22

Edited by Elizabeth Thompson on September 23