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The Silk Road was a vast network of trade routes connecting China and other parts of Asia with the Middle East and Europe. It ...

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While trade was its raison d’être – Chinese silk, of course, but also salt, sugar, spices, ivory, jade, fur and other luxury goods – the road established deep social, cultural and religious ...

Spices, pearls, gemstones, cotton cloth, and other goods were added to the traffic of the Silk Road by this route, and Chinese, Persian, and other Silk Road goods flowed back to India in return.

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The ancient Silk Road facilitated the diffusion of various kinds of fruits, vegetables, spices and culinary traditions which we now take for granted. For example, as Professor Xi pointed out ...

From about 200 BCE to 1500 CE, eastern and western traders traveled along the Silk Road, a network of trade ... In the first century CE, India's spices—especially black pepper and malabathrum ...