What is the Silk Road?

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The Silk Road was a trade route that linked China with the West since the era of Christian and until the fifteenth century. Since the Chinese empire reached the silk to ancient Rome and it departed commodities such as gold, silver and wool, to the Far East. From Xian, China, merchants were on a long journey along which passed through the Takla Makan Desert, climbed the Pamir Mountains, crossed Afghanistan and headed to the Middle East. In the ports of the Levant and were shipped across the Mediterranean Sea to reach the peninsula. In rare cases a single group of people walked the entire route. In general, brokers who acted goods were passing each other.

What was the contribution of the Silk Road cultural exchange?

Those who traveled the Silk Road brought the beliefs and ideas encountered in their passes to the other crossing. In this way, comes Buddhism in India and heresy Nestorian Christianity in China.

What remains now are the silk route?

Part of it survives in the form of a road linking Pakistan and Highur Sinkiang Autonomous Region, China. In addition, the old commercial route to the UN inspired the idea of building a route interasiática.

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