1. World History Mr. Boyer The Silk Roads

3. The Silk Road (or Silk Routes) is an extensive interconnected network of routes for trade that connect Asia with the Middle East and Europe.

4. The Silk Road was an important path for trade and for cultural diffusion. Missionaries and traders, soldiers and travelers crossed these routes exchanging products like silk and other fabrics, spices, perfume, saffron, medicines, glassware, and agricultural products. They spread religions and technology and … plague..

5. Silk Thread

6. S Saffron, perfume, rhubarb Spices, medicine, jewels Glassware, bronze work

7. Plague

15. Buddhism Art Technology Cultural exchanges on the Silk Road

16. Gunpowder and Fireworks

17. Printing

18. Compass

19. Astrolabe

20. ???????????? How do you think trade affected relations between the nations involved? Why?