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What did the introduction of silk into the Mediterranean do for the Abbasid Empire?
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Where was the Phoenician trading empire?
they traded by the Mediterranean Sea by boats, and they used the silk road.
How much silk is produced in the mediterranean?
The Mediterranean is not a silk producing area.
Why The Roman Empire and other early European empires became dependent on China for?
China sold silk, which was very expensive and sought after by the rich, via the Silk Road, a network of roads which crossed Asia and reached the Mediterranean.
What is the name of the trade route that connected Asia with the Mediterranean basin?
The ancient Chinese road to the Mediterranean is called The Silk Road. It was used to bring silk from China to the Mediterranean, but almost nobody traveled the entire route. Several only did, for example Marco Polo.
Why was the trans-eurasian silk road in the period of the Han Dynasty and the roman empire significant because of their location?
The silk road has been called trans-Eurasian because it linked Europe and Asia. It linked China to the shores of the eastern Mediterranean (which were part of the Roman Empire) by crossing central Asia. The silk could also be shipped to Europe and to the rest of the Roman Empire from these shores. It enabled the Chinese to sell silk to rich people around the Roman Empire. Silk was so popular among the rich that the Roman state introduced a law aimed at reducing the level of its purchases.
What relationship is there between the Silk Road and the Han Empire?
I guess the Silk Road was what linked the Han Empire to the Roman Empire
Where did the silk road begins and end?
The silk road began in China at the South China Sea and ended at the Mediterranean Sea.
What is the trade route from xi'an to mediterranean?
The Silk Road.
What sea was the silk road connected to?
Mediterranean Sea
The Silk Road brought goods from to the Mediterranean?
china
What happened during the silk route in tire?
"In the port city of Tyre, on the Mediterranean coast of Lebanon, goods are loaded on ships bound for cities farther to the west. Some of the silk that was traded in the market at Damascus will be sent to Byzantium, the capital of the Eastern Roman Empire."
What product increased trade between Asia and the Mediterranean?
silk
