WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Buddhism spread from India into northern Asia, Mongolia, and China, whilst Christianity and Islam emerged and were disseminated by trade, pilgrims, and military conquest. The literary, architectural and artistic effects of this can be traced today in the cultures of civilizations along the Silk Routes.

Detailed explanation-2: -Buddhism along the Silk Road: 5th–8th Century By the fifth century, Buddhism had been thriving in Gandhara and the Swat Valley (northern Pakistan) for six hundred years, financed by the extensive trade that flowed through the Khyber and Karakorum passes.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Silk Road provided a network for the spread of the teachings of the Buddha, enabling Buddhism to become a world religion and to develop into a sophisticated and diverse system of belief and practice. Of the 18 Buddhist schools of interpretation, five existed along the Silk Road.

Detailed explanation-4: -While the Silk Road was obviously a two-way route, we often define the Silk Road as a movement eastward with Buddhism, Zoroastrianism, Judaism, and later, Islam, spreading east.