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By being between China and the Mediterranean Sea, Persia controlled the central section of the Silk Road to Europe. Silk Road is a name which has been given to a network of roads which connected China with the rest of Asia and with Europe. The name is derived from the fact that the most important commodity China exported was silk, which earned China a fortune.

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