WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -In this era, the great civilizations of Egypt, Mesopotamia, northern India, and China were each developing in relative isolation. Real trade, however, and the exchange of ideas between neighbors, were beginning along the geographical traces that were to become the Silk Roads.

Detailed explanation-2: -Answer and Explanation: Arabia traded frankincense, incense, pearls, and copper on the Silk Road. The pearls actually came from Bahrain and the Persian Gulf. It is interesting to note that the Silk Road trade was controlled by the Arab merchants as well as the Chinese.

Detailed explanation-3: -The most successful traders of the Silk Road were the Sogdians, an Iranian people who inhabited the region of Transoxiana (corresponding to the modern-day republics of Uzbekistan and Tajikistan) in Central Asia. Indeed their language became the lingua franca of the Silk Road.

Detailed explanation-4: -Silk was so wide spread it eventually became a currency of exchange in Central Asia. In the period 1200 to 1450, the Silk Roads continued to focus on luxury items such as silk and other items whose weight to value ratio was low.

Detailed explanation-5: -Silk. It’s called the Silk Road for a reason. Horses. Patrick Aventurier/Gamma-Rapho/Getty Images. Paper. Spices. Jade. Glassware. Furs. Slaves. More items •20-Sept-2021