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    The Silk Road was an important overland trade route connecting East Asia and Europe from the 1st century BCE to the 6th century CE. Chinese silk was a major trade item exported westward along the route. Other goods, like spices and textiles from India, were also traded. The Silk Road helped spread ideas, religions, and technologies between civilizations while also allowing diseases to spread. International trade along the Silk Road was beneficial as it allowed countries and regions to specialize in goods where they had a comparative advantage.

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    The Silk Road was an important overland trade route connecting East Asia and Europe from the 1st century BCE to the 6th century CE. Chinese silk was a major trade item exported westward along the route. Other goods, like spices and textiles from India, were also traded. The Silk Road helped spread ideas, religions, and technologies between civilizations while also allowing diseases to spread. International trade along the Silk Road was beneficial as it allowed countries and regions to specialize in goods where they had a comparative advantage.

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    The Silk Road was an important overland trade route connecting East Asia and Europe from the 1st century BCE to the 6th century CE. Chinese silk was a major trade item exported westward along the route. Other goods, like spices and textiles from India, were also traded. The Silk Road helped spread ideas, religions, and technologies between civilizations while also allowing diseases to spread. International trade along the Silk Road was beneficial as it allowed countries and regions to specialize in goods where they had a comparative advantage.

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    4) OVERLAND TRADE ROUTES IN THE MIDDLE

    EAST

     Introduction:
    A trade route is a logistical network identified as a
    series of pathways and stoppages used for the commercial transport
    of cargo. The term can also be used to refer to trade over bodies of
    water. Allowing goods to reach distant markets. The trade routes
    were the communication highways of ancient times.
    The goods and raw
    materials, were transmitted by people moving from one place to
    another to conduct business. The major and most important trade
    route of that time was the “Silk Trade Route”.

     Silk Trade Route:


    The silk trade route meant alot for the traders
    and merchants in the old ages. The Silk Road primarily refers to the
    land routes connecting East Asia and Southeast Asia with South
    Asia, Persia, the Arabian Peninsula, East Africa and Southern Europe.
    The Silk Road derives its name from the lucrative trade in silk carried
    out along its length, beginning in the Han dynasty in China.
    The
    Chinese took great interest in the security of their trade products,
    and extended the Great Wall of China to ensure the protection of the
    trade route. The Silk Road trade played a significant role in the
    development of the civilizations of China, Korea, Japan, the Indian
    subcontinent, Iran, Europe, the Horn of Africa and Arabia, opening
    long-distance political and economic relations between the
    civilizations. Though silk was the major trade item exported from
    China, many other goods and ideas were exchanged. The last
    destination of goods and raw material was Sub-Continent and
    Europe.
     Travel on the Silk Route:
    The way of travelling on the silk trade
    route was quite difficult. There were only two ways of travelling was
    overland and nautical (Sea). Overland and nautical routes have both
    existed since the beginning of civilization, though evidence
    suggests that the first trade routes were overland. Merchants and
    traders were day and night used the silk route.
    1. Overland travelling was done by camels, horses, donkeys, carts,
    etc. And also people walk with the animals.
    2. Nautical travelling (Sea) in which the goods and raw materials
    were first goes to seaports by land and then loaded on the
    ships both small and large.

     Effect of Exchange till the Sixth (6th) Century Travel:


    The Silk
    Road was a network of trade routes which connected
    the East and West, and was central to the economic, cultural,
    political, and religious interactions between these regions. The Silk
    Road trade played a significant role in the development of the
    civilizations and the ideas of different religions (especially
    Buddhism), syncretic philosophies, sciences, and technologies. So
    in addition to economic trade, the Silk Road was a route for
    cultural trade among the civilizations along its network. Diseases,
    most notably plague, also spread along the Silk Road.

     Importance of Trade:
    The theory of comparative
    advantage states that countries should specialise in those goods
    where they have a relatively lower opportunity cost. Some
    countries are naturally abundant in raw materials. Without trade,
    these countries would not benefit from the natural endowments
    of raw materials. Because of trade nations, firms, individuals can
    easily utilize their goods and services and prosper even more. So,
    economists call it comparative advantage of international trade.

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