The Silk Road facilitated trade, transmission of ideas, and technological exchange between East and West.
Ideas and technologies passed through the route as easily as goods. The Silk Road was a vast network of interconnected trade routes linking East and West during the Middle Ages, enabling the exchange of not only goods like silk but also ideas and technologies.
Most traders did not travel the entire distance of the Silk Road as it was a series of roads connecting various oasis towns and market cities, with different merchants covering different segments of the route.
Arab merchants dominated trade on the Silk Road, traveling in caravans protected by armed squadrons, exchanging goods like silk, spices, and precious stones, and facilitating the exchange of seeds and germplasm among different regions.
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