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allow for easier trade with Europe

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the purpose is to trade goods such as silk with animals. mostly the poors trades their animals such as cows and horses for food such as rice, oils and others.;

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Trading with other countries.

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Was the Silk Road one continuous road or a series of routes?

The Silk Road was a series of routes that came off of the main Silk Road. The Silk Road consisted of the main Silk Road, minor routes and sea routes which were used later in the Silk Road's history, when the Silk Road became dangerous.


Was the silk road smooth?

No the Silk Road was not smooth. The Silk road was actually a road that was used for trading. The main item traded along the Silk Road was silk that is why it is called the silk road.


What is the main item traded on the silk road?

silk


What main things did the silk road trade?

silk, porcelain, and spices


How did humanists ideas spread throughout Europe?

The main way was by the silk road. Italy is located and the end of the silk road. most of the great humanists are from there and since they were at the end of the silk road, philosophers that came up and down the silk road heard the idea and spread it around, also developing the idea into a far greater one.


What did they do on the silk road?

The silk road was a system of interlinking trade routes between China and the west. The main products transported from China were silk garments and spices.


Was the silk road covered with silk?

no, the silk road was NOT covered with silk The "Silk Road" was the "road" which silk traveled from Asia to Europe.


How long was the silk road Marco Polo took?

I have no idea but it was very long.


Why was the main overland trade route between the Roman Empire and China known as the Silk Road?

Because one of the most valuable commodities traded along the Silk Road was Chinese silk.


The main trade route that connected China with Rome was called what?

The trade route that connected China to Rome was called the Silk Road.


Which were sent out of China by the Silk Road?

nd because of the silk road the one that was sent out of china by the silk road is silk because silk is the main and only thing that people back then used to buy a lot and i would now this because i had read abotthe silk road when i was middle school but know that i am in high in school istill know a lot about elementary and middle school.


What is the difference between the eastern silk road and the western silk road?

The eastern silk road is mostly desert and the western silk road is mostly mountains