GK
WORLD HISTORY
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Question
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Road that led to downtown China
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Trading highway in modern day India
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Trade network between Europe & Asia
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Road made of silk fabric
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Silk Road is neither an actual road nor a single route. The term instead refers to a network of routes used by traders for more than 1, 500 years, from when the Han dynasty of China opened trade in 130 B.C.E. until 1453 C.E., when the Ottoman Empire closed off trade with the West.
Detailed explanation-2: -Silk Route trade became increasingly popular with European merchants from the thirteenth century onwards. The Route’s very nature changed as navigators found ways of trading directly with producers in the Far East, cutting out the ‘middlemen’ of merchants who had traversed different parts of Central Asia.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Silk Road was an ancient trade route that linked the Western world with the Middle East and Asia. It was a major conduit for trade between the Roman Empire and China and later between medieval European kingdoms and China.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Silk Road was a network of trade routes connecting China and the Far East with the Middle East and Europe.