Ancient china trade

Ancient china trade

Ancient Chinese Trade
The history of Chinese trade and its effect on the world over the past 2,000 years has improve since the beginning of time. Merchants, diplomats and travelers crossed many roads to transfer raw materials and luxury goods. Some of the routes were the Amba-ssador road, the incense road and many other small routes. These routes made it possible for china to trade with other countries. China supplied west Asia, the Mediterranean and many of the European countries. In exchange they treaded many supplies each country was in need of. Ancient china was known for there silk. In exchange they received timber, horses, sheep’s, cattle’s and other needed supplies. One of the most well known things that trading brought was religion. Buddhism arrived in china with commercial goods, following trade route from northern India. The most important thing about Chinese trade was the routes that were taking to transport all of the imported and exported goods. There were three main routes, and all were dangerous. The Northern routes westward to the black sea. The central routes westward to Persia. The Mediterranean sea to Rome. And finally the southern Route westward to Iran and India.

Out of all the routes significant to transport merchandise was the silk road. The name of the silk road was given by an   Australian geologist from the   19th century Fernand
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Von Richthofen. He was the first traveler to use it for trading. It expanded 8,000km and
5,000 miles on land and sea.   There were many items being transported in this route. In this route many of the most valuable treaded items were gold, turquoise, rubies, cotton, jade, camels and even horses. The silk road mostly went west. It went from chine to
central Asia, through Afghanistan, Pakistan and usually ended in the India. In exchange many countries wanted goods and food supply. Even the Arabs demanded gold, silver, in exchange for spices and silk. The silk Road was controlled by the Tuque...