How Did The Silk Road Decline

The Silk Road was a system of highways and trade networks that linked many powerful empires across the Eastern hemisphere. The Mongol Empire was at its peak during much of the Silk Road, extending all the way west to Poland. After the fall of the Mongol empire, Confucianism started to greatly influence China. The fall of the Mongol empire also led to a lot of poverty and poorly maintained cities, along with many new, rising empires. New technologies and political policies made the Silk Road decline and fall for several reasons: Most importantly, the Chinese government strictly limited international trade to only coastal areas in the 1500s, taking away one of the most important destinations on the Silk Road. Secondly, the Mongol empire collapsed,