G6: Silk Road: What is the Silk Road?

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For more than 1,500 years, the network of routes known as the Silk Road contributed to the exchange of goods and ideas among diverse cultures.

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Silk Road, the trade routes which spanned Asia for over a thousand years, carrying Buddhism to China and paper-making and gunpowder westward

Information about major cities along the route

a website covering multiple aspects of the silk road