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What is silk route? And what is its importance

The Silk Route is a convenient name for the Trans Asia trade routes through which the trade of silk prospered.Silk route linked the world by means of trade and commerce relationships between various countries. Historians have found several silk routes in land and water, which connected Asia, Europe and North Africa. The trade and exchange dependent on the silk route between these countries. Therefore, it linked the world together.

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The Silk Route is a convenient name for the Trans Asia trade routes. At one point it was viewed as a road along which silk from China was brought to Turkey and sold to Europeans. That is an overly simplistic and not terribly realistic view. It was not a single road but a number of interconnecting Caravan Routes over which trade was conducted. Additionally Sericulture only dates back a few thousand years the Silk Route is much older. 

image of the silk route

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