The two millennial old highway known as the Silk Road, stretched from Spain to the Southeastern Asia’s ports . Human intercommunication was essential for the advancement of human history and technology, the Silk Road was the first and an effective human invention bringing a way for the Eastern and Western cultures of Afro-Eurasia to interact, thus not only; spreading religion, reformation of governments, intercommunication between diverse ethnicities for the first time, making advancements in culture and scientific field, but also fostered the rise of Mongol empire and feudal European kingdoms, in a way, brought a turning point in world history, ultimately shaped the world today. China, India, and Southeastern Asian civilizations had not met
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China defined people into two categories as Chinese or barbarians due to the limitations of contact with other cultures (Neil and Laver, 2001). The establishment of the Silk Road opened new pathways for cultures to interact. The Silk Road’s name came from a precious Chinese commodity known as silk. The Silk Road was not a single road, but rather several trade routes, stretching all the way to Spain, and ultimately lead the routes to the ancient Chinese capital at Xian, thus, creating an international trade network (Li, 2017). In 138 BCE, China sent representatives to the west to establish the Silk Road as a trade network between Rome and middle-east civilizations. Moreover, the creation of the Silk Road was possible from the many different ethnicities who lived along the routes, who helped the Silk Road blossom into an international trade network, connecting all major empires of Eurasia. (Neil and Laver, 2001). The Silk Road was a way for the Eastern and Western civilizations to communicate and trade, such promoting cultural diffusion and helping fuel many empires’ growing economies, but also starting feuds to control the Silk …show more content…
The Chinese empire had been rich in resource and culture before they discovered other civilizations, and with the establishment of the Silk Road, the Chinese empire’s wealth and diversity heightened. The Chinese exported an array of exotic goods, foreign to other cultures, including silk and china. Silk became expensive as gold since China limited the amount of silk exported, and concealed the way to manufacture silk. In a way, silk stereotyped China as a rich country, and so silk became the standard necessity of the rich in the west (Neil and Laver, 2001). China became even richer through trade, such food and raw material production increased for the merchants and the people of China . The successful assimilation of the Silk Road aided China economically (Burbank and Cooper). Simultaneously, the nomadic tribes flourished from using the Silk routes to aid for commerce. Nomadic tribes grew rich by controlling the Silk Roads through regulating trade and made passing merchants pay tolls. Plus, nomadic tribes from northern China looted villages and held ransom money from the growing Chinese Empire. In addition, the Silk Road created empires through trade. Trade and raids brought knowledge and wealth to the nomadic tribes in Mongolia, who were presumably also the ancestors
China defined people into two categories as Chinese or barbarians due to the limitations of contact with other cultures (Neil and Laver, 2001). The establishment of the Silk Road opened new pathways for cultures to interact. The Silk Road’s name came from a precious Chinese commodity known as silk. The Silk Road was not a single road, but rather several trade routes, stretching all the way to Spain, and ultimately lead the routes to the ancient Chinese capital at Xian, thus, creating an international trade network (Li, 2017). In 138 BCE, China sent representatives to the west to establish the Silk Road as a trade network between Rome and middle-east civilizations. Moreover, the creation of the Silk Road was possible from the many different ethnicities who lived along the routes, who helped the Silk Road blossom into an international trade network, connecting all major empires of Eurasia. (Neil and Laver, 2001). The Silk Road was a way for the Eastern and Western civilizations to communicate and trade, such promoting cultural diffusion and helping fuel many empires’ growing economies, but also starting feuds to control the Silk …show more content…
The Chinese empire had been rich in resource and culture before they discovered other civilizations, and with the establishment of the Silk Road, the Chinese empire’s wealth and diversity heightened. The Chinese exported an array of exotic goods, foreign to other cultures, including silk and china. Silk became expensive as gold since China limited the amount of silk exported, and concealed the way to manufacture silk. In a way, silk stereotyped China as a rich country, and so silk became the standard necessity of the rich in the west (Neil and Laver, 2001). China became even richer through trade, such food and raw material production increased for the merchants and the people of China . The successful assimilation of the Silk Road aided China economically (Burbank and Cooper). Simultaneously, the nomadic tribes flourished from using the Silk routes to aid for commerce. Nomadic tribes grew rich by controlling the Silk Roads through regulating trade and made passing merchants pay tolls. Plus, nomadic tribes from northern China looted villages and held ransom money from the growing Chinese Empire. In addition, the Silk Road created empires through trade. Trade and raids brought knowledge and wealth to the nomadic tribes in Mongolia, who were presumably also the ancestors