Silk Road Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels
trade routes through Asia connecting China to the Mediterranean Sea
About Silk Road
Caravans have been travelling the Silk Road for over 2000 years; Chinese silk was reachingRomeand Roman glass was reaching China before 100 BCE. Trade over parts of the route is far older; there was trade between theIndus Valley CivilisationandAncient Mesopotamiabefore 2000 BCE (cities likeMohenjo-daroinSindhandNinevehinIraq), jade fromKhotanin what is nowXinjiangwas reaching central China by around 1500 BCE and the Persian Royal Road connected the Mediterranean port ofSardisto thePersian Gulfports in the 5th century BCE. Around that time there was extensive trade all across thePersian Empire, which was centred in what is nowIranand in those days included much of theCaucasus,Central Asiaand what is nowTurkey. Around 330 BCE,Alexander the Greatconquered fromGreecetoEgypt, where he foundedAl
Silk Road Travel Guide Sections
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