Question

Given below are two statements, one labelled as Assertion (A) and other labelled as Reasoning (R) ASSERTION (A) : It would have been difficult to use carts along the Silk Route. REASONING (R) : The route was dangerous and the terrain was precarious.

Answer 1

BOTH THE ASSERTION AND REASONING ARE CORRECT.

Explanation:

The silk route was a historic trade route dating from the second century B.C stretching from Asia to the Mediterranean transversing China, India, Persia, Arabia, Greece, and Italy. It was called the silk route due to heavy silk trading in that era.

It would have been difficult to use carts along the Silk Route because:

1. It was a very long and tedious route transversing many countries.
2. The road included roads, mountains, deserts, valleys.
3. Taxes or payment was mandatory to cross the road and the habitants demanded money.
4. Also, it was a route where carts could have been robbed by thieves.

Hence, It would have been difficult to use carts along the Silk Route as the route was dangerous and the terrain was precarious.

Therefore, both Assertion and Reasoning are correct.