Question

During the Age of Exploration, European explorers wanted to venture across the oceans to Asia for Silk, gems, and spices. What were the detriments of the land route known as the “Silk Route”

Answer 1

The risk of infectious and fatal diseases was the premium risk of using the silk route.

The passengers were scared of rubbers and bandits as well as diseases like measles, small-pox, and the bubonic-plague.

There was a notorious history of silk-route about the risk of infliction of this diseases. These are the reasons European traders prefer to avoid the Silk-Route.