The Song dynasty (960-1279) follows the Tang (618-906) and the two together constitute what is often called “China’s Golden Age.” The use of paper money, the introduction of tea drinking, and the inventions of gunpowder, the compass, and printing all occur under the Song.

The Song period is often compared with the western Renaissance when plenties of inventions were made that substantially improved the welware of mankind and contributed to technological progress. Indeed, three important inventions of mankind were made during the Song period: moveable printing types, gunpowder, and the …

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The Southern Song dynasty had to rely on the sea to the south for trade as the overland silk road to the north was blocked off. Although the Silk Road re-emerged as the main overland transport route during the Mongol dynasty when this fell in 1368 the overland route was no longer as safe.

The Silk Route was a historic trade route that dated from the second century B.C. until the 14th century A.D. It stretched from Asia to the Mediterranean, traversing China, India, Persia, Arabia, Greece, and Italy. It was dubbed the Silk Route because of the heavy silk trading that took place during that period.

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Everyone (East and West) benefited from the Silk Road. It opened up trade, communication, different ideas, culture, and religion to the entire world.

The Silk Road was a vast trade network connecting Eurasia and North Africa via land and sea routes. Advances in technology and increased political stability caused an increase in trade. The opening of more trade routes caused travelers to exchange many things: animals, spices, ideas, and diseases.

The greatest value of the Silk Road was the exchange of culture. Art, religion, philosophy, technology, language, science, architecture, and every other element of civilization was exchanged along these routes, carried with the commercial goods the merchants traded from country to country.

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Silk Road 2.0 shut down by FBI and Europol on 6 November 2014. Silk Road was an online black market and the first modern darknet market, best known as a platform for selling illegal drugs.

The Silk Road was an online black market, selling everything from drugs to stolen credit card information and murderers-for-hire. It was shut down by the US government in 2013.

Each had something the other wanted. Rome had gold and silver and precious gems. China had silk, tea, and spices. The Silk Road was important because not only goods were traded, ideas and culture were carried by the traders.

In the year 119 AD during the reign of the Emperor Hadrian, a massive and unprecedented Roman invasion of the Han Chinese territory in Western Asia took place. The war – which came to be known as the Roman-Sino War – was the largest the ancient world had ever seen.

In Northern Europe did the Romans meet the Vikings, almost certainly not. But there was never a permanent Roman presence close to the area that the Vikings would later call home.

To people in Han dynasty, they believed the existence of Roman empire was 80% true but kept away by the vast geography and political obstacles in middle Asia.

Originally Answered: Did ancient Rome ever hear about the Americas? No not really. There was talk of places “to the West” but that could have been anywhere. the first people known to visit the Americas (from Europe) were the Vikings around 1000 ad, long after the roman empire fell.

The ancient Chinese did know the ancient Romans were comparable to the ancient Chinese. The ancient Romans knew less about the ancient Chinese than the Chinese knew about ancient Rome. Really, the only thing the Romans knew was that there was a people far to the East where they got their silk from.

While Rome did not know about Japan, they did have some idea about China. Rome and China became aware of each other, but neither had any kind of coherent idea about each other.

Although ancient Romans did not eat what we would call today “pizza”, it was a lot like modern focaccia. These early pizzas were eaten in Babylonia, Egypt, and Rome. The modern pizza was first made in 1889. And as tomatoes are a “New World” plant they couldn’t have been used before the 16th century.

The Romans never conquered Ireland. They did not even try. Some archaeologists have suggested that Agricola established a bridgehead at Drumanagh, an Iron Age promontory fort that juts into the Irish Sea near Rush, some 20km north of Dublin.

Originally Answered: Why didn’t Romans attack India? Because India was so far away from the Roman political heartland that projecting power there would have been virtually impossible for the Romans who were a pre-industrial empire.

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India appears on the ancient Roman ‘map’ called the peutinger table”. Also Sanjeev Sanyal mentions in many of his books and lectures about Muziris; an ancient port in present-day Kerala which had a lot of trade with the Roman Empire; the Phoenicians; the Persians and the Egyptians.

They knew western India very well, especially the coast. Roman Egyptians traded with India regularly and they accumulated a great deal of knowledge of the regions that look westward, as well as a certain amount of knowledge of northern India deriving mainly from the age of Alexander the Great and his successors.