as early as 100 BC during the hand Dynasty Chinese traders where is transporting goods along the silk road under the tang dynasty in the eighth and ninth century trade along the silk road reach its height describe the importance of the silk road in exchange of goods and ideas during this time your description should include examples of some of the goods and ideas that moves along the silk road in the direction in which they travel

The development of the Silk Road, which was an ancient connection of routes between the East and West, led to cultural interaction between Asia, Africa, and Europe.

The Silk Road led to the economic and industrial development of countries such as Japan, China, India, Iran, Arabia, Afghanistan, and Djibouti/Eritrea/Ethiopia/Somalia. Religions, philosophies, goods such as jewelry figurines, spices, and pottery, technologies, sciences, cultural ideas, and even disease (such as the plague) spread as a result of the Silk Road.

The Silk road most often saw goods and ideas leaving from Asia to go West to other parts of Asia, the Middle East, Africa and Europe.