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What was the Silk Route?
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CBSEClass 10 (CBSE)Social ScienceCh 3 · Topic 1
Pre-modern Global Trade Links
Before modern globalisation, trade links connected distant parts of the world through networks like the Silk Route, exchanging goods, ideas,
Core concept
The Silk Route linked China with Europe and Central Asia, allowing the exchange of silk, spices, and precious goods, while also spreading religions and ideas.
How it works
Trade also connected India with Southeast Asia, the Middle East, and Africa through both overland routes and maritime trade across the Indian Ocean.
Why it matters
Along with goods, these trade networks spread crops, technologies, and diseases, showing how interconnected the pre-modern world already was, long before modern globalisation.
Key detail
These early trade links established patterns of cultural exchange and economic interdependence that would later influence the colonial era and modern global trade.
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• The Silk Route linked China, Central Asia and Europe.
• It allowed exchange of silk, spices and precious goods.
• Trade also spread religions and ideas.
• India traded with Southeast Asia, Middle East and Africa.
• Trade used both overland and maritime routes.
• Trade spread crops, technologies and diseases too.
• The pre-modern world was already interconnected.
• These links influenced later colonial and modern trade.