Why Is The Silk Road Important

Mike Casey C Block
Silk Road
The Silk Road was a dealer’s marketplace in 120 BCE–1450s, that went through China and throughout Mesopotamia. At the time, Silk was a trade product highest in demand, but it was a fibre being reserved for the usage of the Chinese imperial court in making fabrics and materials. Asia gradually created a place where cultures could be learned and diverse societies could create success, playing a main consideration in Asia’s history despite taking several years to take off and gain popularity.. Since there was a rich diversity in cultures and people, this allowed the worldwide commercial center to spread different cultural thoughts, convictions, and ways of life crosswise over Europe

Bands of people were know allowed to have a larger carrying capacity and a severely faster way of traveling. They conveyed merchandise from place to place exchanging and bargaining for cash and things of significant worth. This way of traveling worked because the Silk Road was conceptually a system of trading routes; the Mongol Empire was the most used route by its traders due to the large size of the empire. In between roads, other countries would be able to set up points to advertise their culture and other goods. In Silk Road Threads Through History the National Geographic Society wrote how Afghanistan in particular uses this to there advantage, “Countries Afghanistan sat at a strategic juncture between the empires of Asia, eastern Africa, and southern Europe.” In this case, Afghanistan was using the plotting of the Silk Road to there advantage and plotted themselves in a spot to sell its information on its culture, as well as to bargain with any merchants looking to trade. Soon countries where modeling themselves across the entire Silk Road to find a spot of popularity. In part of Afghanistan, the Islamic religion was quicker to spread than any other religion along the Silk Road. Places from the West where now learning about how the Islamic religion functions and even started forming themselves around it. But on the other hand, Buddhism was originally a religion that was drafted in India but that was something was able to gradually migrated to Afghanistan and being practiced