Question

Explain how closing the Silk Road caused Europeans to travel east through the Arabian Sea?

Answer 1

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The Silk Road was a network of trade routes which connected the East and West, and was central to the economic, cultural, political, and religious interactions between these regions from the 2nd century BCE to the 18th century. The Silk Road primarily refers to the land routes connecting East Asia and Southeast Asia with South Asia, Persia, the Arabian Peninsula, East Africa and Southern Europe.

The Silk Road derives its name from the lucrative trade in silk carried out along its length, beginning in the Han dynasty in China (207 BCE–220 CE). The Han dynasty expanded the Central Asian section of the trade routes around 114 BCE through the missions and explorations of the Chinese imperial envoy Zhang Qian, as well as several military conquests. The Chinese took great interest in the security of their trade products, and extended the Great Wall of China to ensure the protection of the trade route.

The Silk Road trade played a significant role in the development of the civilisations of China, Korea,[6] Japan,[2] the Indian subcontinent, Iran, Europe, the Horn of Africa and Arabia, opening long-distance political and economic relations between the civilisations.[7] Though silk was the major trade item exported from China, many other goods and ideas were exchanged, including religions (especially Buddhism), syncretic philosophies, sciences, and technologies like paper and gunpowder. So in addition to economic trade, the Silk Road was a route for cultural trade among the civilisations along its network.[8] Diseases, most notably plague, also spread along the Silk Road.[9]

In June 2014, UNESCO designated the Chang'an-Tianshan corridor of the Silk Road as a World Heritage Site. The Indian portion is on the tentative site list.

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Answer 2

Closing the Silk Road caused Europeans to travel east through the Arabian Sea

Explanation:

• The Silk Road was an ancient trading network formally established during the Chinese Han Dynasty which connected the old world regions in trade to 130 BCE-1453 CE
• From 130 BCE, when Han opened its trade with the West to 1453 CE, when the Ottoman Empire decided to boycott trade and closed all its routes. The silk routes  was used regularly..
• Europeans had been acquainted with eastern goods and, as silk route closed, traders had to pursue alternative ways to meet demand for these goods.
• The closing of the silk route triggered the Age of Exploration wherein European explorers took to sea charting new sea routes for the substitution of overland trade. This network also expanded throughout the early Middle Ages, when Europeans had established new routes across the Arabian Sea and the Indian Ocean.