Question

The silk road across northwest china was

Answer 1

a network of trade routes that stretched for more than four thousand miles across Asia. The Han Empire opened the silk road by defeating the nomadic people in northwestern China.

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Answer 2

It was a old network of trade routes that were for centuries central to cultural interaction first through areas of Eurasia connecting the East and West and all the way from the Korean peninsula and Japan to the Mediterranean Sea