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The silk road was a network of roads that connected the east and west.  The trading route began in China and connected Japan and Korea in the east and connected Central Asia and India in the south.  It also connected Turkey and Italy in the west.  The silk road was important because it generated trade and commerce between a number of different kingdoms.  The Silk Road connected nearly 50 cities and towns from the span of Xian to Kashgar.  In 130 B.C, the silk road helped trading in those towns and cities.  Some of them are 1,000 years old and some now feature a spectacular landscape.

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A major city along the silk road was Luoyang.   It is one of the Four Great Ancient Capitals of China.  Luoyang was the starting Hub of the silk road.  It had 21 state level culture and heritage sites.  Luoyang made the first Buddhist temple.  The white horse temple represents the White Horse that was carried Buddhist Classics from Remote India to the Capital “Luoyang.”

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One item that was imported from Ancient China was Gold.  The earliest use of its balances was weighing of the gold dust.   Gold coins helped inter-regional trade.  Gold was introduced by Central Asia and Chinese jade carvers.  Gold was also used to create rectangular belt plaques, and others were used to make different material like jade.

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One item that was exported from Ancient China was silk.  Types of items being exchanged were developed into lengths of silk.  Silk was the best material to make clothing at the time of the silk road.  Silk was very rare to find because the silkworms were only found in China, and since they were only in China other Cities wanted to trade for the silk. The Silk “fabric” was invented in Ancient China and played an important role in their culture for over a thousand years.  The ancient Chinese made the silk by breaded special moths.

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An idea that was imported/exported by Ancient China

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An idea that was imported/exported by Ancient China

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One idea that was imported or exported from Ancient China was paper. The idea started from the Chinese. Arabs acquired the knowledge of paper-making from them. It traveled along the silk roads and to other cities.  Gunpowder, paper, and the compass were part of something called the Four Great Inventions of Ancient China.  The Chinese made the paper so they could make paper money and playing cards.  The first piece of paper was made in the 2nd century B.C.

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Some Barriers that were Encountered on the Silk Road

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Some Barriers that were Encountered on the Silk Road

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Mountains and desserts were barriers because there wasn’t any good speed to travel by at the time  The trade routes that linked them together, sometimes were over very extensive distances and across formidable physical barriers.  What made the journey possible was techniques of caravan travel and expertise of the caravans.  Mountains that were barriers were Hami, Turfan and Urumqi, traveling north of the Tian (Heavenly) Mountains through Dzungaria, and then on to Kokand and Tashkent.

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