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The Silk Road was about 4,000 miles. The road was really hard to travel threw. If you travel threw the Silk Road there will be deserts and cold mountains. The Silk Road goes threw Asia. The Silk Road was opened during the Han dynasty and remained a major route of trade for more than 1,000 years. Many goods were traded in the Silk Road. They traded silk from China and glassware from Rome. That was no the only thing that was exchanged, there was Ideas and other things that were exchanged from one person to the next.

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The Father of the Silk Road Is named Zhang Qian. In 138 B.C.E the Han Empire sent 100 men and Zhang Qian to try to get an alliance with the Western people, the Huns. The expansion of the  Han empire made the Silk Road possible. Over an amount of time there was Chinese traders that went farther west to trade ideas and items. The Silk Road was not the only trade route, there was smaller ones that connected to bigger networks.

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The Silk Road was not a continues route. There was several dangers that faced In the Eastern Silk Road. The dangers are Bandits that would attack people using the route between the ares of Dunhuang and Kucha. The bandits were not the only dangers, there was sandstorms that would bury some of the people alive in sand. The things they would trade are Silk, dishes, jewelry, and iron weapons. Silk was the most popular trade item.

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Some of the peaks of the mountains  were a little bit over twenty thousand feet. But most of the trails past the mountains were really narrow and dangerous. But some people that take the trail often are dizzy and get some sort of headaches and lack oxygen. In the Western Silk Road the Egypt people traded perfumes, cosmetics, and carpets. The central Asian travelers usually brought some sort of metal, dyes, and sometimes they would even trade some slaves. The Chinese people often wanted glass products from the Romans and the Romans wanted gold for silk.

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Ideas and knowledge were in the trade between the East and West. By 500 C.E., the Chinese have figured out how to make some glass products. China imported a lot of items such as spices and foods. The Silk Road wasn't just used to trade and give idea and goods, it was also used to spread Buddhist beliefs.