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Information on the Silk road:

Answer 1

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Answer 2

The Silk Road was a network of trade routes, formally established during the Han Dynasty of China, which linked the regions of the ancient world in commerce.
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Answer 3

The Silk Road, or Silk Route, is a series of trade and cultural transmission routes that were central to cultural interaction through regions of the Asian continent connecting the West and East by linking traders, merchants, pilgrims, monks, soldiers, nomads, and urban dwellers from China and India to the Mediterranean Sea during various periods of time.[1]

Extending 4,000 miles (6,437 kilometres), the Silk Road derives its name from the lucrative trade in Chinese silk carried out along its length, beginning during the Han Dynasty (206 BC – 220 AD). The Central Asian sections of the trade routes were expanded around 114 BC by the Han dynasty, largely through the missions and explorations of Chinese imperial envoy, Zhang Qian.[2] The Chinese took great interest in the safety of their trade products and extended the Great Wall of China to ensure the protection of the trade route.[3]

Trade on the Silk Road was a significant factor in the development of the civilizations of China, the Indian subcontinent, Persia, Europe, and Arabia, opening long-distance, political and economic interactions between the civilizations.[4] Though silk was certainly the major trade item from China, many other goods were traded, and religions, syncretic philosophies, and various technologies, as well as diseases, also travelled along the Silk Routes. In addition to economic trade, the Silk Road served as a means of carrying out cultural trade among the civilizations along its network.[5]

The main traders during antiquity were the Chinese, Persians, Greeks, Syrians, Romans, Armenians, Indians, and Bactrians, and from the 5th to the 8th century the Sogdians. During the coming of age of Islam, Arab traders became prominent.

Answer 4

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Answer 5

This website will also help you: http://www.ess.uci.edu/~oliver/silk.html

Answer 6

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Answer 7

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Answer 8

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Answer 9

The Silk Road, or Silk Route, is a series of trade and cultural transmission routes that were central to cultural interaction through regions of the Asian continent connecting the West and East by linking traders, merchants, pilgrims, monks, soldiers, nomads, and urban dwellers from China and India to the Mediterranean Sea during various periods of time. Trade on the Silk Road was a significant factor in the development of the civilizations of China, the Indian subcontinent, Persia, Europe, and Arabia, opening long-distance, political and economic interactions between the civilizations. Though silk was certainly the major trade item from China, many other goods were traded, and religions, syncretic philosophies, and various technologies, as well as diseases, also travelled along the Silk Routes. In addition to economic trade, the Silk Road served as a means of carrying out cultural trade among the civilizations along its network.

Answer 10

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Answer 11

The ancient Silk Road contributed greatly to the cultural exchange between China and the West. From the second century BC to the fifteenth century AD, splendid civilizations among China, India, Greece, Persia and Rome were exchanged along this famous trade route, making the route a great "Cultural Bridge" between Asia and Europe.

Answer 12

PAPER
Before the invention of paper, the Chinese wrote on carefully prepared strips of wood and pieces of
silk. They used brushes made of animal hair and ink made from pine soot.
Paper came into use as early as the second and first centuries BCE, at the same time that the Chinese
bureaucratic state was expanding and maturing under the Han dynasty (206 BCE-220C CE). Paper
was an ideal medium for the large numbers of documents produced by China’s government. In 105
CE, the invention of paper was officially reported to the Chinese throne. In reality, it had been in use
long before that.
Centuries later, paper reached western Asia and Europe. Even today, in a world increasingly dominated
by electronic/digital technology, it’s almost impossible to live without paper.
SILK
By the Shang dynasty (c. 1550-1050 BCE) sericulture—the raising of silkworms and the production
of silk—had developed to a very high degree. The silkworm had become a true
domestic animal, bred for a variety of desirable characteristics; the typical Chinese farmstead
included not only fields for grain and vegetables, but also a grove of mulberry trees, the leaves
of which are the sole food of the silkworm caterpillar. Ordinary peasant women were expert in
the special techniques associated with silk weaving; silk was produced in quantity and worn, at
least on some occasions, by a wide range of people, not just the aristocracy (Steele 1999: 21-22).
The silks that came from China amazed the upper classes of the Roman Empire. They came to call
China “Serica,” the “land of silk.” Not everyone, however, approved of the beautiful fabric:
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The sensuous, expensive material predictably aroused the ire of moralists. Seneca,1 for example,
was disgusted by the gauze-like transparency of fashionable silk textiles: “I see silken
clothes, if you can call them clothes at all, that in no degree afford protection either to the
body or to the modesty of the wearer, and clad in which no woman could honestly swear she
is not naked” (Steele 1999: 71).
It was only in the early Middle Ages that silk began to be manufactured in the West.2
PORCELAIN
The Chinese also invented porcelain. For centuries, it was exported by sea and by land to Asia and
Europe:
The Central Asians, the Persians, and the peoples of the Middle East prized Ming [1368-1644
CE] porcelains . . . The Persian ruler Shah Abbas (r. 1587-1629) constructed a China house
for his magnificent Chinese wares. The Topkapi museum in Istanbul houses over eight thousand
Song [960-1279 CE] and Ming porcelains. Some of the Central Asian tribes believed
that Chinese porcelains possessed supernatural powers. In Persian miniature paintings of the
fifteenth century, “there is hardly a manuscript in which [Chinese] blue and white vessels are
not depicted” (Rossabi 1975: 77).

Answer 13

That's for the goods. For the Culture, they exchanged and talked about many different religions and that's why there are so many different religions in the area where the silk road passed through.