WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The Silk Road was a vast trade network connecting Eurasia and North Africa via land and sea routes. The Silk Road earned its name from Chinese silk, a highly valued commodity that merchants transported along these trade networks.

Detailed explanation-2: -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-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: -In the 1st – 3rd centuries AD the Silk Road connected the four most powerful ancient empires – European Roman Empire, the Parthian Empire in the Near and Middle East, the Kushan Empire in the south of Central Asia, Afghanistan and Chinese Hang Empire in the Far East.

Detailed explanation-5: -The Great Silk Road is a system of caravan routes crossing in ancient and middle age time Eurasian continent from Mediterranean Sea to China and influencing the emergence and development of trade and cultural ties between people and statehoods located along the way.