Silk road
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- Hello, my name is Alberto and Today we are going to travel to the past, to the times of trade, of the silk route. With this huge rocket
- but before we go I am going to tell you some information about the silk route.
- The silk road was one of the most important routes in history, as it connected with Europe, Egypt, Africa, Arabia, Persia, Mongolia, India and China.
- The silk road was officially created in 130 BC in the Tang dynasty of China and from that moment these trade networks communicated the different regions of the ancient world until 1453 AD.
- We have officially declared the silk road
- Yeyyyyyy
- but really it all started in the 2nd century BC and it was called the Persian royal route. It was created in the Archemenid Empire and started from the north of Persia and reached the shores of the Mediterranean Sea in Asia Minor. In addition, along the entire route there were mail stations with horses so that the messengers of the great king could quickly deliver their messages throughout the Persian Empire.
- Can you lend me a horse please, I urgently need to deliver this to the king
- Of course, why not?
- These routes gradually expanded to more places, but after the fall of the Archemenid Empire little by little the local population mixed with the Macedonian warriors and thus the Greco-Bactrian culture was formed and they also began to conquer territory, making contact with ancient China and the West's first contact with ancient China
- I don't understand you
- 你在說什麼？
- The Chinese have problems with the people who lived around them but thanks to that contact they started a horse breeding program, making the new horses faster and better, defeating the enemies of China.
- LONG LIVE THE CHINESE EMPIRE
- After the victory of the Chinese, it was decided to inaugurate the Silk Road in order to have more commercial contact with Western countries.
- We have decided to officially inaugurate this route as a trade route between East and West
- Yeyyyyyy
- Things like paper, gunpowder, spices, gold, silver, honey, ivory, slaves were traded on this route, but the most desired product of all was silk.
- Silk was in high demand especially in Rome as the manufacture of silk clothing increased and this ambition reached the Byzantine Empire, after Western Rome had fallen.
- I NEED MORE SILK, GO AND BUY THE SILK AND BRING IT HERE
- But the Byzantine emperor, Justinian, tired of having to pay for silk and take it to the West. So he decides to steal the silkworm and he did it successfully, making the Byzantine Empire a silk industry and making it an important trading point.
- Everybody come and buy silk
- But in the year 1453 Constantinople (the capital of the Byzantine Empire) falls by the Ottoman Turks and after this the silk route declined, causing many Europeans to start looking for maritime routes to continue doing the business and in fact in these searches it is When America is discovered.
- I think that's India, let's go there
- Well, that's another story. The legacy they left behind was the cultural exchange since the route, being so large, one could reach other places with a totally different culture. Some examples are art, religion, science, philosophy, science, language, food, technology, etc...
- Now let's go back to our time
- I hope you have learned that it was the silk road, GOODBYE
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