The Silk Road (100 BC - 500 CE)
Silk is one of the most ancient commodities that was traded along the Silk Road, and is still used in most every part of the world. The Silk Road carried very significant products that most humans in the present day cannot live without. This combination of trade routes connected cultures and highlighted ways in which the many cultures of Europe and Asia were brought closer together through creative commercial and cultural exchanges that still continue today.
The Silk Road was not jus one route but many routes, roads, and paths that headed in an east-west di…
