The Silk Road's Long Term Benefits

The Silk Road's Long Term benefits Even though the Silk Road helped people at the time, it’s long term benefits, such as a more globalized world, were the most important and greatest effect that the Silk Road did for mankind. The trading of expensive goods help only the people with money and the people without money and were unable to benefit from the entirety of the Silk Road trade and were hurt by it in terms of the black death. This plague is considered to be one of history's worst epidemics killing around 75 million people. A lot of the money in the Silk Road was given to the emperors ,who owned the surrounding land, to gain protection from bandits and robbers, and in some cases other emperors attacked merchants on protected parts Silk Road which lead to wars and more people being killed. A smaller but still major
The Silk Road was a great way for people to get items that were unable for them to get in their own land. Animals were traded, this helped people in farming because inted of having to breed their own animals they could trade a surplus of something that they had to get a cow or another type of animal quicker. The Silk Road was the most important means of supplying cultures and religions to countries that were formerly isolated or countries that did not have or want a new religion. Buddhism which originated in the Kushan empire traveled along the Silk Roads from India, to Central Asia and finally to China. Buddhist monks traveling along the Silk Roads spread their culture as they made this journey putting up Buddhist shrines or monuments as they went. (*) (https://www.advantour.com/silkroad/cultural-exchange.htm) Before the Silk Road came in to place the religion of Buddhism was a almost estingusished relgion ,but because the Silk Road was made to transit this dying relgion to new areas it survived. The Silk Road,