Silk Routes Link the World
Silk route is defined as the route taken by traders to carry silk cargoes from china to the west. The Silk Routes are an excellent illustration of pre-modern trade across different areas of the world. The name silk road also refers to the prominence of westbound Chinese silk shipments over this route.
Important features of Silk Routes are,
- There are several more silk routes have been identified by the historian over land and by sea, knitting together vast regions of Asia which linked Asia with Europe and northern Africa, they are known to be existed since before the Christian era and thrived almost till the fifteenth century.
- Even Buddhist preachers, Christian missionaries, and Muslim preachers traveled along these routes. These routes proved to be a great source of trade and cultural links between distant parts of the world.
- This route connected Asia to the Mediterranean, passing through China, India, Persia, Arabia, Greece, and Italy. Due to a large amount of silk trading from the second century B.C. until the 14th century, A.D. was called as a silk route. This silk route not only provide a link for importing and exporting goods but also became important for the export of art, literature, and philosophies between countries.
- Through these routes, they trade textiles and spices from India and Southeast in return for precious metals Gold, and silver which flowed from Europe to Asia.
The Pre-Modern World
The pre-modern era lasted from the 15th through the 18th centuries. Many centralized governments were held throughout that era time, as were the beginnings of various independent countries as nation-states, and so on.
Globalization is a 50-year-old economic system but the making of the global world has a long history of trade, migration, of people of work , the movement of capital and many more. To understand the phases through which this world where we live has emerged.