Silk Road 1

Silk Road was a merchants’ heaven and a consumers’ dream. A place wherecultural diffusion was a natural occurrence and different rich cultures could both spread and blend with freedom and prosperity. This global marketplace was took hundreds of years tostart and played a major factor our cultural past. Due to the combination of people, products,ideas, and modes of transit, the first global marketplace was able to widely spread differentcultural ideas, beliefs, and lifestyles across Europe and Asia.The Silk Road was home to thousands of traders from all over the world, trying totrade different products from different cultures to different people in different cultures. Thisspread of products from person to person was a major reason why cultural items ended up indifferent cultures. Traders came from all over the world, and brought with them some of themost culturally rich items. When these items were traded for other items from other cultures,it allowed the passing of different cultural items. The trade of one item for another was called bartering. Veteran traders normally carried many items from various cultures due to past bartering. With all of these culturally rich items being traveled along the Silk Road, thiscaused many items from different cultures to be placed in other cultures where they couldhave their own significance. These travelers traveled through China, India, Persia, Europe,and the Gulf Coast collecting and trading these items to different cultures. These itemssometimes gained popularity. An example would be silk in Europe. Silk was in high demandin Europe and without the Silk Road; it would have probably never been introduced intoEuropean society. These traders were very important to the spread of cultural along the Silk Road.
Traders on the Silk Road originated from all over the world, and as they traveled thelong journey, they carried their own cultural lifestyles around with them. These culturallifestyles would be taught be the traders to people