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Source: UNESCO
- Caravanserais were guest houses used to house merchants and travellers along the Silk Road. Protected people and goods from dangers of the road. Caravanserais were opportunities to trade, communicate, and eat with other merchants.

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Source: Ancient History Encyclopedia
-Paper, gunpowder, and silk from China.
-Romans thought silk was made from trees, and they weight it in gold.
-carpets, jewels, amber, metals, dyes, drugs, and glass from Rome to China.

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"Chinese Silk Dating"
- Some remnants of what was probably Chinese silk dating from 1070 BCE have been found in Ancient Egypt. The Great Oasis cities of Central Asia played a crucial role in the effective functioning of the Silk Road trade. The originating source seems sufficiently reliable, but silk degrades very rapidly, so it cannot be verified whether it was cultivated silk (which would almost certainly have come from China) or a type of "wild silk", which might have come from the Mediterranean region or the Middle East.
"Persian Royal Road"
- By the time of Herodotus (c. 475 BCE), the Royal Road of the Persian Empire ran some 2,857 km (1,775 mi) from the city of Susa on the Karun(250 km (155 mi) east of the Tigris) to the port of Smyrna (modern İzmir in Turkey) on the Aegean Sea. It was maintained and protected by the Achaemenid Empire (c. 500–330 BCE) and had postal stations and relays at regular intervals. By having fresh horses and riders ready at each relay, royal couriers could carry messages and traverse the length of the road in nine days, while normal travellers took about three months.
"Hellenistic Era"
- The next major step in the development of the Silk Road was the expansion of the Greek empire of Alexander the Great into Central Asia. In August 329 BCE, at the mouth of the Fergana Valley in Tajikistan across the mountain pass from the modern Chinese province of Xinjiang, Alexander founded the city of Alexandria Eschate. This later became a major staging point on the northern Silk Route.

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Source: UNESCO
- "On a practical level, merchants had to learn the languages and customs of the countries they travelled through, in order to negotiate successfully. Cultural interaction was a vital aspect of material exchange."
- Ideas such as making paper and irrigation were spread throughout the Silk Road.
- "Religion and a quest for knowledge were further inspirations to travel along these routes." Explorers such as Marco Polo and monks travelled the Silk Road to immerse themselves in new knowledge.

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Source: Wikipedia
-The Silk Road concept refers to both the terrestrial and the maritime routes connecting Asia and Europe.
-The main traders during antiquity included the Chinese, Arabs, Indian, Somalis, Syrians, Jews, Persians, Greeks, Romans, Georgians, Armenians, Bactrians, Turkmens, and (from the 5th to the 8th century) the Sogdians.
-The Silk Road derives its name from the lucrative Eurasian silk and horse trade

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Trade on the Silk Road played a significant role in the development of the civilizations of China, Korea, Japan, the Indian subcontinent, Iran/Persia, Europe, the Horn of Africa and Arabia, opening long-distance political and economic relations between the civilizations.

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-Religions such as Zoroastrianism, Judaism, Buddhism, Christianity, Manichaeism, and Islam were spread along the Silk Road.
-dates, saffron powder and pistachio nuts from Persia; frankincense, aloes and myrrh from Somalia; sandalwood from India; glass bottles from Egypt were brought to China.

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Source: UNESCO
- Silk was valuable, and its production was kept classified.
- China couldn't contain secret of silk, spread towards the west (about 6th century AD).
- Silk was introduced in Rome, luxurious item.

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Source: UNESCO (Silk Road)
"Eurasia was criss-crossed with communication routes and paths of trade, which gradually linked up to form what are known today as the Silk Roads; routes across both land and sea, along which silk and many other goods were exchanged between people from across the world."

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Source: Unesco
- "merchants had to learn the languages and customs of the countries they travelled through, in order to negotiate successfully." [language]
-  "which included textiles, spices, grain, vegetables and fruit, animal hides, tools, wood work, metal work, religious objects, art work, precious stones and much more."
- "...brought about the transmission of knowledge, ideas, cultures and beliefs, which had a profound impact on the history and civilizations of the Eurasian peoples. Travellers along the Silk Roads were attracted not only by trade but also by the intellectual and cultural exchange that was taking place in cities along the Silk Roads, many of which developed into hubs of culture and learning."

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Source: Wikipedia
- The Silk Road got its name from the Eurasian silk and horse trade.
-  It is confirmed that the nomadic Arimaspians were not only breeding horses for trade but also great craftsmen able to propagate exquisite art pieces along the Silk Road.
- The next major step in the development of the Silk Road was the expansion of the Greek empire of Alexander the Great into Central Asia...This later became a major staging point on the northern Silk Route.
-  With control of these trade routes, citizens of the Roman Empire would receive new luxuries and greater prosperity for the Empire as a whole.

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Source: UNESCO
- Silk wasn't the only item traded along Silk Road. " it was only one of a wide range of products that was traded between east and west, and which included textiles, spices, grain, vegetables and fruit, animal hides, tools, wood work, metal work, religious objects, art work, precious stones and much more."
- Maritime routes were commonly used mostly for trading of spice (hence why maritime routes are called the Spice Roads).
- Spice Roads from Moluccas Islands in Indonesia to Mediterranean Sea.
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