Silk Roads: Overland trade network linking China to the Mediterranean carrying luxury goods, ideas, and diseases.
How to apply it: Use the Silk Roads to explain diffusion of technologies such as gunpowder and paper as well as religious ideas.
Course: AP World History · Unit: Networks of Exchange
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