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With the silk road being mainly seen as a trading route for goods, it served as a route used to spread culture, religion, and other ideologies. With multiple societies being involved, religion was able to spread throughout the multiple regions that the road covered. Along with that, it exchanged many resources that allowed for the civilizations to experience economic growth. The important of the trade route reflected off of the prosperity that the civilizations that took advantage of the road experienced.

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The Trans Arabia Route was important because it connected West Africa to the Middle East, but it also was a big help with the spread of Islam, as this trade route helped to facilitate the spread of Islam to Africa. This trade route helped to bring ideas and technology into Africa, while African ideas, culture, and technology would be spread to the Middle East. But, there were also important objects and resources that Africa had that the Middle East had a low supply of. An example of this is gold, which was one of the biggest things traded throughout this route, which many nations on the other side of the route were lacking in.

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The Indian Ocean Route was an importance to opening a path from Africa to Asia. With this, it is possible to travel from Africa to Asia to trade food and goods such as gold, spices, silk, new information, and cultural ideas.

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The significance of trade through the Indian Ocean routes was the level of access to different emporiums and regions with a vast amount of products to trade. For instance, the Indian Ocean routes connected Cambay, Calicut, and Quilon in India to trading cities like Malindi in Africa, Quanzhou in China, and Siraf in Arabia. These connection resulted in a boost of economy for each trading city, as well as the spread of religions, and ideas, like Islam and Hinduism.

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The importance of the Arabia route was so that the Arabians can utilized the the incense route and to transports goods such as spices,gold, and ivory which will all go to India or local ports of Africa.

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The Silk Road was important because it allowed for exchange of goods, such as silk, rice, and porcelain as well as beliefs in religion, and technology.

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The Silk road served as a route for exporting goods such as silk, spices, precious metals, architecture, and Art, and also served as a route where people can exchange cultural ideas.

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The Mediterranean Sea trade routes had a significant role. The Mediterranean Sea was a body of water that helped trade between Europe, Africa, and Asia. This route led to the increase of trade, geographic expansion, and the exchange of cultures.

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The Silk Road allowed merchants to trade goods and scholars to spread cultural traditions. Merchants used the Silk Road to trade porcelain and spices, and scholars used it to spread religion, ideologies, and traditions.

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The Silk Road is arguably the most important trade route in the history of the world because it connected dozens of civilizations across hundreds of years. The Muslims, Chinese, Abbasids, and Persians are among some of the cultures that used the Silk Road. People traded goods like fur, porcelain, wine, olives, silk, and tea. Ideas were also exchanged: Buddhism, Confucianism, Christianity, and Islam were all spread along the route.

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The Silk Road was instrumental in the mass  expansion of European, African, Indian, and Asian cultures. Technological advancements, discoveries, religion, and goods were exchanged throughout the network and it helped keep economies afloat throughout the world. The Silk Road provided an efficient way for different countries and civilizations to attain goods that they weren't naturally given. For example, countries around Europe were able to trade for silk clothing, a luxury good that was only produced in China.
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The Mediterranean Sea was extremely significant for connecting trade to the already established silk road to part of Europe, Africa and Asia. Many luxury goods were traded along the silk road including pottery, textiles, tea, and olives.

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The Silk Road has had a lot of importance in history. Many goods were traded on the Silk Road. Religion and ideas were also traded on the Silk Road. Christianity spread to many different regions through the Silk Road.

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The Mediterranean Sea Route was extremely significant in trading between AfroEurAsia. it connected west and east trading routes which allowed them to trade culture and beliefs such as religion. It also helped spread valuable goods such as metals, spices, and textiles which led to great wealth throughout the world.

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The Mediterranean Sea Route was important because it connected Europe to trade routes in the East such as the Silk Road. The Mediterranean Sea had many ports that offered a diverse range of goods which allowed Europe, Asia, and Africa access to trade each other's different goods.

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The Trans-Saharan Trade Route was instrumental in the development of the civilizations that participated in it. The trade route facilitated the exchange of ideas and cultures between the people of Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. This led to the development of new technologies, art, and architecture.

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trade on the Mediterranean sea connected older silk road routes to Europe and connected them to Asia and Africa, it was the connection between land and sea trade for many regions.

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The trade on the trans Saharan road not only was used to trade good including gold, silk, and spices, but also used to exchange culture and ideas throughout Europe, Africa, and the Middle East.

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The importance of the Mediterranean Sea Route was that it connected the Silk Road to Europe and all of its trading routes. This allowed Europe access to goods from Africa and Asia that they could not access before. For example, many spices from Cairo were introduced to Europe that did not exist before.

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The Mediterranean sea was a crucial body of water that enabled the diverse trade between Southern Europe, Western Asia, and Northern Africa. It allowed merchants to not only trade a variety of items, but to also spread cultures and religion. Additionally, it connected to the Silk Road which further extended the trade and transportation of goods back and forth. This is demonstrated by Rome and Greece's trades with China and India.

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The Indian Ocean Route was significant to trade by being a more direct path to major trading hubs and ports. Instead of having to trek across the entire Silk Road, the Indian Ocean Route made it possible to travel from Asia to Africa in one easy journey. For example, instead of taking a month-long land journey from Guangzhou to Cairo when trading spices, using the Indian Ocean Route would enable a much faster week-long journey.

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The Silk Road was not only utilized to trade goods but also as a way to spread arts, religion, culture, ideologies, and technology. For example, traders travelling maritime routes from India spread Hinduism, and it was introduced into Indonesian through the Silk Road.

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Trade on the Silk Road brought valuable goods from Asia (silk, tea, spices, porcelain) to Europe, as well as cultural exchange (Buddhism, Confucianism). Technology (such as the compass) also spread in this manner.

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The Indian Ocean Route was a trade route that connects East Africa, South Asia, East Asia, and the Middle East together. Although long voyages could be possible by keeping track of the Monsoon seasons, ports such as Malacca, Goa, and Aden were great places to go on a relatively short voyage from port to port. Since there were many ports that popped up thanks to trade.