The Maritime Silk Road or Maritime Silk Route is the maritime section of the historic Silk Road that connected Southeast Asia, East Asia, the Indian subcontinent, the Arabian Peninsula, …

Dec 7, 2025 · Silk Road, ancient trade route, linking China with the West, that carried goods and ideas between the two great civilizations of Rome and China. Silk went westward, and wools, …

May 1, 2018 · The closing of the Silk Road forced merchants to take to the sea to ply their trade, thus initiating the Age of Discovery which led to world-wide interaction and the beginnings of a …

Travellers along the Silk Roads were attracted not only by trade but also by the intellectual and cultural exchange taking place in cities along the Silk Roads, many of which developed into …

Nov 3, 2017 · The Silk Road was a network of trade routes connecting China and the Far East with the Middle East and Europe.

The Silk Road was established by China’s Han Dynasty (206 BCE-220 CE) through territorial expansion. The Silk Road was a series of trade and cultural transmission routes that were …

The Silk Road is generally agreed upon to have collapsed in the early 1700's, due to the benefits of transport by sea and the lack of security caused by the collapse of the Safavid Empire.

The Silk Road was not a single road but a vast network of trade routes that connected the East and West for over a millennium. Spanning from China to the Mediterranean, it facilitated the …

The Silk Road is neither an actual road nor a single route. The term instead refers to a network of routes used by traders for more than 1,500 years, from when the Han dynasty of China …

Sep 17, 2025 · Stretching thousands of miles from the heart of China to the Mediterranean, the Silk Road carried more than silk—it carried the hopes of merchants, the ambitions of rulers, …