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Familiar and unfamiliar Silk Road Regarding the Silk Road and its history, in fact, we have many misunderstandings, but from the history of the development of human civilization, the Silk Road is actually for us

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Familiar and unfamiliar Silk Road

Regarding the Silk Road and its history, in fact, we have many misunderstandings, but from the history of the development of human civilization, the Silk Road is actually a familiar and unfamiliar existence for us.

The Silk Road, which we are familiar with because of its name, is, as the name suggests, a trade network that flourished from silk, stretching from China in East Asia to Europe.

But is that all? If we simply understand the Silk Roads in this way, we fall into an overly one-sided understanding.

In fact, the first to propose this name was the German geographer Richthofen, who was born in the 1880s when the West was building a railway from Europe to Asia, and he had a keen insight into this and the business opportunities that followed.

However, the Silk Road covers a geographical scope far beyond the starting and ending points, but also covers the vast Asian, European and African regions, and is an extremely extensive trade network. The Silk Road also includes not only the Silk Road by land, but also the Silk Road by sea. And the content of the Silk Road trade is far more than silk and other Products with Chinese characteristics, but also includes a large number of Eastern and Western commodities, porcelain, precious stones, spices, silverware, gold, leather and so on.

Along the way, there was also the spread of various technologies and ideas and religions.

Even from the perspective of silk trading, as one of the most important trading products, it was mass-produced in China for more than three thousand years, but it was not until the end of the first millennium BC, under the knowledge and desire for domestic silk in Asia, Europe and Africa, that silk became a commodity and began a long-term exchange journey. In the 2nd century BC, the Han Dynasty began to march to the western region, and the knowledge of silk spread accordingly. Subsequently, in the course of thousands of years of history, silk became the greatest driving force in long-distance trade.

Familiar and unfamiliar Silk Road Regarding the Silk Road and its history, in fact, we have many misunderstandings, but from the history of the development of human civilization, the Silk Road is actually for us

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