Silk Road
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A series of interconnected roads connecting the Mediterranean to China.
It ran for 5,000 miles across Asia which enabled trade in silk and fine goods to greatly increase. Merchants did not travel the entire length (goods were passed on by middle-men who extracted large sums of money for their services.) Ideas were also passed along the Silk Road. It was the way by which Buddhism entered China.
The Silk Road was an Ancient trade route from East China to Central Asia and Europe. This was so influential because it brought grapes, cotton, chestnuts, lucerne, pomegranates, and Buddhism to China and shipped out techniques for silkworm breeding, iron smelting, and papermaking westward.