What Was the Silk Road? Trade Routes and Cultural Exchange
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What Was the Silk Road? Trade Routes and Cultural Exchange

Corrected by Emir Baycan · on When Notes Fly · 12 July 2026 · View published page ↗

Learn about the Silk Road's network of trade routes that facilitated cultural and economic exchanges for centuries.

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Pliny the Elder estimated that Rome spent 100 million sesterces annually on Chinese silk and other eastern luxuries
+Pliny the Elder estimated that Rome spent about 100 million sesterces annually on luxuries from India, China, and Arabia combined (with roughly…

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