Okuma AnlamaSoru #8968
The Transcontinental Silk Road
The Silk Road was not a single paved highway, but an extensive decentralized network of overland caravan tracks and mountain passes spanning over six thousand kilometers across Eurasia. Established during China's Han dynasty around 130 BCE, this transcontinental trading web linked the bustling markets of Chang'an with the Mediterranean metropolises of Antioch and Rome. Along these unforgiving desert and mountain routes, merchants transported luxury commodities of high value and low bulk, most notably Chinese silk, porcelain, Indian spices, Persian rugs, and Roman glassware. However, historians emphasize that the cross-cultural exchange of intangible ideas was far more revolutionary than the exchange of physical merchandise. Religious faiths like Buddhism, Christianity, and Islam traversed these trade arteries alongside traveling caravans, profoundly transforming Asian and European spiritual landscapes. Moreover, scientific knowledge, medical treatises, papermaking, and gunpowder migrated from East Asia into the Islamic world and eventually into Western Europe, laying the intellectual groundwork for the Renaissance. The commercial importance of the overland Silk Road only declined in the late 15th century, when European explorers pioneered direct maritime sea routes to Asia. The overland Silk Road's prominence ultimately diminished because ----.
- A)a massive plague wiped out all pack camel populations across Central Asia
- B)European navigators discovered direct maritime trade routes to Asia in the late 15th century
- C)China built the Great Wall to seal all trade borders with the outside world permanently
- D)the Roman Empire collapsed and eliminated all European consumer demand for luxury goods
- E)catastrophic desertification swallowed all major oasis cities along the northern corridor
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Doğru cevap: B) European navigators discovered direct maritime trade routes to Asia in the late 15th century
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