Silk Road (the ancient trade routes in Asia)

Ancient overland trade route between China are heading across europe asia middle region known as the "silk road". The trade route called the Silk Road because many traders who pass through this road carrying silk fabric. At that time the land of silk produced only china. Many merchants of various countries visited china silk fabric because it requires at that goods are classified as types of luxury goods. By itself lane silk became well-traveled and lalangnya the caravan since han dynasty. The road name is silk road, but the road is not as smooth and as smooth as silk. The traders who are going through this route must traverse the hot desert, rugged cliffs, even through the narrow gap in the snowy mountains. A traveler named fa hien describe the Silk Road was filled with snow, the wind often blew the sand mixed with pebbles, on both sides there is a steep rock cliffs as high as 3,000 meters, as well as many of the steep ravine.

Trade centers linked by the Silk Road, among others cantons, Nanking, Kaifeng, hsining, kancow, komul, almalik, cercen, chotan, kasygar, Tashkent, yarken, samarkhan, and Bukhara. Key items of trade in the path of the Silk Road from China in the form of which silk, porcelain, paper, and jade, from India in the form of finely woven, statues, ivory, and carvings; of persia the form of tapestries, gold and wool, and Roman form of crystal goods, iron weapons, wine, gold, and silver.

Journey through the Silk Road barriers are as follows:
a. the disruption of the robbers were often confiscated
b. the silk route is an area of ​​barren, steep, steep, and sometimes snowy, so it requires patience and fortitude to traders through
c. not infrequently harassed traders wild animal attacks.