The Silk Road is Expanded!

Carly H., student writer

    The first goods of the new extended Silk Road have finished their route to the Nomadic tribes in Central Asia. The merchants were headed from Xi'an, a major trading city. They were headed to Dunhuang and then to Khotan. They traded silk, ivory, glass, jade, and gold. The merchants traded every bit of the goods. They got back spices, nuts, and cloth for their goods. The Silk Road is not a new thing. However, the expansion on the Silk Road is new and will help with trade throughout China. 

 

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     The Chinese people were trading silk all across China before the silk road was built. The nomadic tribes in Central Asia were attacking the caravans that were trading. They robbed and stole from the caravans and merchants. Around 202 C.E. Chan Ch'ien made contact with the Central Asian tribes and came up with the idea of making peace with them through trade.  The trade routes, or Silk Road, were expanded to the Nomadic tribes. The Nomads stopped attacking and started to trade with the rest of China.

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