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The Silk Road was a network of overland trade routes connecting China to the Mediterranean world, facilitating the exchange of goods, ideas, religions, and technologies for over 1,500 years.
## Key Facts
- Period: ~130 BCE – ~1450 CE (ancient period focus: ~130 BCE – ~400 CE)
- Period: ~130 BCE – ~1450 CE (ancient period focus: ~130 BCE – ~400 CE) @t[130 BCE..1450]
- Length: ~6,400 km (main route)
- Named by: Ferdinand von Richthofen (1877)
- Key goods: Silk, spices, gold, glass, horses, precious stones
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- Diseases also spread, possibly including plague [^2]
## Key Periods
- Han dynasty (206 BCE – 220 CE): Zhang Qian's missions opened the route (~130 BCE)
- Han dynasty (206 BCE – 220 CE): Zhang Qian's missions opened the route (~130 BCE) @t[206 BCE..220]
- Kushan Empire (1st–3rd century CE): Facilitated trade across Central Asia
- Roman demand for Chinese silk drove trade westward