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The Silk Road was a crossroads for people of many cultures. As they traded, they would exchange inventions, religions, languages, and all sorts of ideas.

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Ideas were also traded on the Silk Road.

• Inventions such as the irrigation waterwheel

• Religions: Buddhism, Christianity, Islam, Judaism, and others

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Some of the main items traded on the Silk Road were:

• silk

• assorted textiles

• domestic animals

• plants and medicines

• spices

• precious gems and metals

• dyes

• gunpower

• paper

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The Silk Road extends from China to Rome, passing through Egypt, Somalia, Arabia, Afghanistan, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Burma, Java-Indonesia, the Philippines, Vietnam, and Arabia. A lot of the traders were Chinese, Roman, or Persian.

Marco Polo and Chinese general Zhang Qian were associated with the Silk Road.

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The Silk Road connected China and Rome. The Romans discovered silk, but the Chinese people kept the secret of how they made it, so the Romans traded for it. It was in huge demand, so many Chinese traders traveled to Rome to trade.