The term "Silk Road" was coined by German geographer called Ferdinand von Richthoven around 1887. I have not discovered a name for it prior to it.
The route used by the Chinese for exporting silk was called the silk route because silk was the most important item of trade
The route used by the Chinese for exporting silk was called the silk route because silk was the most important item of trade
The Silk Road was a route not a road and it wasn't made of Silk either. You can always call it the Silk Route.
Northern Path.
Because silk was one of the most common merchandise that was carried along that route.
Because silk was one of the most common merchandise that was carried along that route.
The trade route that connected China to Rome was called the Silk Road.
It was called the Silk Route, so named because it was the route along which silk was first brought from China to Europe.
it is rail road!.................... mostly in some countries it is called as silk route
the silk route is a route to china.
Silk Road
yes Baghdad is in the silk route