Indian Trade
* Trade items
- silk, wines, weapons, metal works, spices, nuts, amber, jade, gold, horses, teas,
* Silk Roads
- not actual roads
- name given to any route that led across China to Rome
- 4,000 mile trip
- Rome had gold, silver, and precious gems
- china had silk, spices, and ivory
- very difficult and dangerous to travel on
* Silk
- romans were not surprised to hear of another great civilization hidden over the mountains
- they had been looking for “the silk people” for a long time
- discovered pieces of silk from some out of the people they conquered and it became popular in Rome, but it was scarce
- wanted more silk but didn’t know who was making the wonderful material
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