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The Silk Road

Ancient trade network linking China to Rome; exchanged goods and ideas for 1,500 years

130 BC ๐ŸŒ China to Europe Ancient World

๐Ÿบ Key Facts

1

Connected China, Central Asia, Persia, Arabia, India and Rome (c. 130 BCโ€“1450 AD)

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Traded silk, spices, glassware, paper and gunpowder โ€” drove the global economy for millennia

3

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

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Era

๐Ÿบ Ancient World

Region

๐ŸŒ China to Europe

Year

130 BC

Summary

Ancient trade network linking China to Rome; exchanged goods and ideas for 1,500 years