Silk Road

Silk road is a well-known ancient commercial route of silk trading through continental Asia and Europe. They are different routes interconnected through Southern Asia, and connecting Chang'an (today's Xi'an), China, with Antioch, Asia Minor, as well as other points. The length of whole route is over 8,000 km (5,000 miles). The silk trading influence carried over not only into other countries in Southern Asia, such as Japan and Korea, ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, Persia, India and Robe, but to Eastern and Southern Europe.

The influence of the silk road was not only for the past, the modern world has benefited from the this significant economic foundation. Nowadays, the raw silk in the UK is still imported from China to produce different kind of silk fabric and make silk clothes.