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Silk Road Warm-up: Explain the blue lines below on this map of Eurasia. Silk Road Where: 4,000 miles of trade routes between Roman Empire in the West, and Han Dynasty in the East around 206 BC to 220 AD. What: East trades (silk and spices) West trades (silver and gold, and religion) Significance 1: Aided development of civilizations of China, India, Persia, Europe, and Arabia Significance 2: Trade of physical silk and spices & Mental: technologies, religions, bubonic plague Significance 3: Connected Christian Europe to markets across Arabia and Asia. MAIN POINT: Silk Road ends 1400!: Rise of Islam blocks Christian Europe, which then pursues maritime trade (mercantilism).