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1. Silk Road

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   The Silk Road refers to an extensive network of Eurasian trade routes active from the 2nd century BCE until the mid-15th century CE. While commonly conceived as a single highway facilitating the exchange of silk from China to the Roman Empire, it was, in reality, a complex, shifting web of overland paths and maritime conduits connecting East, South, and West Asia with the Mediterranean world and parts of North Africa. The routes were critical not only for commerce but also for the transmission of technologies, r…