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-The silk road was the original world wide web. A world wide web is how all of earth’s people stay connected. The new WWW is the internet, but the silk road was the first.
-The silk road was a network of trade routes which connected the East and West, and was central to the economic, cultural, political, and religious interactions between these regions from the 2nd century BCE to the 18th century.
-The difference between the new WWW and the old one is that the old one was slower and it eventually failed, while the new one can get messages from one side of the world to the other in a blink of an eye and is still going strong as of now. The internet is also available to all people, while the silk road was obviously just for people in the eastern hemisphere.
-The silk road made trade and travel became easier, allowing different civilizations to be connected like never before.

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-An ancient trade route that linked the Western world with the Middle East and Asia. It was a major conduit for trade between the Roman Empire and China and later between medieval European kingdoms and China.
-Formally established during the Han Dynasty of China, which linked the regions of the ancient world in commerce.
-Primarily refers to the land but also sea routes connecting East Asia and Southeast Asia with South Asia, Persia, the Arabian Peninsula, East Africa and Southern Europe.

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-Silk Roads (The Routes Network of Chang'an-Tianshan)
-The Silk Road derives its name from the lucrative trade in silk carried out along its length, beginning in the Han dynasty in China (207 BCE–220 CE).

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-It helped to generate trade and commerce between a number of different kingdoms and empires. This helped for ideas, inventions, and unique products to spread across much of the settled world.
-It expanded China's foreign economic trade and made the world know China.
-The exchange of culture. Art, religion, philosophy, technology, language, science, architecture, and every other element of civilization was exchanged along these routes, carried with the commercial goods the merchants traded from country to country.

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-The original Silk Route was established during the Han Dynasty by Zhang Qian, a Chinese official and diplomat.

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-Around 114 BCE (Before the Common Era) – 1450s CE (Common Era)

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-The Silk Road began in north-central China in Xi'an (in modern Shaanxi province). A caravan track stretched west along the Great Wall of China, across the Pamirs, through Afghanistan, and into the Levant and Anatolia. Its length was about 4,000 miles (more than 6,400 km).

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https://youtu.be/vn3e37VWc0k
https://www.ancient.eu/Silk_Road/
https://soundcloud.com/worldhistoryorg/the-silk-road

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-In 139 BC (Before Christ) , with the command of Emperor Han Wudi of the Han dynasty, Zhang Qian led more than 100 people to the western region and opened the north-south road to the western region, namely the famous silk road.