The Silk Road was an extensive network of trade routes that connected Asia, the Middle East, and Europe. Missionaries, traders, and travelers used these routes to exchange goods like silk, spices, perfumes, medicines, and agricultural products, while also spreading religions, technology, and plague. Trade on the Silk Road had significant cultural and economic impacts as it facilitated exchanges that influenced art, culture, and the development of technologies between the various regions.

1. World HistoryMr. BoyerThe Silk Roads

3. The Silk Road (or Silk Routes) is an extensive interconnected network ofroutes 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. SSaffron, perfume, rhubarbSpices, medicine, jewelsGlassware, bronze work

7. Plague

15. BuddhismArtTechnologyCultural 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?