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100
Roman trade
The Roman conqured Egypt and started trading with China
The Roman conqured Egypt in 30 BC -
100
The Northern route
The northern trading started at Xi'an which was the capital of a Ancient chinese kingdom, Which spilt into 3 diffrent routes. -
100
Southern route
The Southern route or the Karakoram Route was mainly a single route that ran through the southern part of china and Karakoram and into pakistan. -
100
Culture transition
Throught the whole Silk roads existence there were cultures being traded all over the place and that is how some cultures moved from one place to another. -
220
Beginning of Silk Road
206 BC - 220 AD
This was the beginning of the silk road, -
500
Roman Silk
In the 5th century there were 2 Christian monks who found out how the Chinese made silk. The Roman sent spies to steal silk worm eggs and that was when Silk production started in the mediterranean. -
500
The Sogdians
The Sogdians dominated the trading between the East-West between the 4th and 8th century. -
Feb 8, 1207
The Mongol Expansion
The Mongol Expansion helpd bring political stability back to china and it re-established the Silk Road. It also stopped the Islamic Caliphates monopoly over the world trade. -
Feb 8, 1492
Christopher Columbus
Christopher wanted to create a new trading route to China but he accidentaily found the "New World". -
Period: Feb 8, 1500 to
Silk Road
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Feb 8, 1513
Trading over Sea
In this year trading over seas started to take action. The first European trading ship was in the coasts of China. -
Russians re-establishment
The Russians re-established a land trade route between them and China and they named it the Great Siberian Road. -
Eurasian land bridge
This was a rail way that connected china and khazakastan and it was refered to as the New Silk Road