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The Silk Road
Ancient trade network linking China to Rome; exchanged goods and ideas for 1,500 years
130 BC ๐ China to Europe Ancient World
๐บ Key Facts
1
Connected China, Central Asia, Persia, Arabia, India and Rome (c. 130 BCโ1450 AD)
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Traded silk, spices, glassware, paper and gunpowder โ drove the global economy for millennia
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Spread Buddhism, Islam, Christianity, plague (Black Death) and the printing press across continents
Not one road but a network of routes; silk, spices, ideas and diseases all travelled it
Quick Reference
Era
๐บ Ancient World
Region
๐ China to Europe
Year
130 BC
Summary
Ancient trade network linking China to Rome; exchanged goods and ideas for 1,500 years