It is denominated like Route of the Silk to a set of commercial routes organized specifically for the commerce with the silk from century I a. C., which covered almost the entire continent of Asia, connecting Mongolia with China, the Indian subcontinent, Africa, Europe, Syria, Turkey, Arabia and Persia. This legendary one through which for centuries caravans that traded with products from the East and the West passed, in addition to this it also functioned as a bridge through which ideas, knowledge and also the foundations of Buddhism and Islam were transmitted.
The name "Silk Road" was invented by the German geographer Ferdinand Freiherr von Richthofen, who in 1877 used it for the first time in his work "Old and new approaches to the Silk Road." The idea of the name arose because silk was the most traded merchandise that circulated along this route, whose manufacture was a secret that only the Chinese possessed. The settlers of ancient Rome were those who showed the most interest in silk, considering it as a luxurious material, those in charge of making this material known in that region were the Parthians, who were dedicated to their trade, in addition to silk a great A variety of products were marketed through these routes, such as diamonds, rubies, stone, wool, ivory, spices, glass, coral, among others.
Specialists assure that this route existed as a space for exchanges of different types since the Paleolithic, being a remnant of what was the Jade Route, which existed approximately 7000 years ago. It is believed that these roads arose as a result of the curiosity of the Chinese Emperor Wu of the Han dynasty for the distant civilizations that populated in the western regions. At that time the Roman and Greek peoples used the name " country of the Beings" to name China a. During the time of Christianity, the settlers of the empire who became great admirers of silk after having obtained it thanks to the Parthians, who at that time were in charge of this trade.
