Sunday, November 21, 2010

Silk, Sand, and Sea Roads

Roads were used as more than just transportation routes, but even as means of division in Eurasia.  There was three main types of roads for example silk, sea, and sand roads.  Its neat to discover the type of devices that were used to get across the different types of roads.  You can't be using a type of device that you would use to cross a silk road, when trying to go over a sea road because you need different things to go over certain things.  Some devices that they used to travel over these different roads were ships, domesticated animals and carts.  With the help of these different devices people were able to trade and transfer good so much more because the roads would already be mapped out, and with the help of either a device of transportation and or animal, it just made trade so much more easier.  Silk roads would make it easier to get from the far east to Europe.  Sea roads traveled through the Indian Ocean and even among India, Africa, Asia, and even south east Asia.  Lastly sand roads would help people get from the sub Saharan to the Saharan Africa.  Many of these mapped out roads made it ultimately so much easier for everyone to get to different places much quicker and efficiently.

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