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The Silk Road was important because it helped to generate trade and commerce between a number of different kingdoms and empires. This helped for ideas, culture, inventions, and unique products to spread across much of the settled world.

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The Silk Road was a trade route that went from China to Eastern Europe. It went along the northern borders of China, India, and Persia and ended up in Eastern Europe near today's Turkey and the Mediterranean Sea.

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Many things were shared along the silk road. Not just objects where traded along the silk road there was religion, ideas, culture, inventions, disease.

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Chinese silk was very important to many people.

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There were many bandits along the silk road.

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The Ottoman empire boycotted the silk road and it closed.

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There was not just one route there were many.

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Very few merchants traveled the entire trade route.

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Not all the stuff traded on the Silk Road was good.

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Marco Polo traveled to China on the Silk Road.

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The silk Road was 4,000 miles long.