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Wikipedia: The Silk Road (or Silk Routes) is an extensive interconnected network of trade routes across the Asian continent connecting East, South, and Western Asia with the Mediterranean world, as well as North and Northeast Africa and Europe. The term "Seidenstraße" (literally "Silk Road") was coined retrospectively by the German geographer Ferdinand von Richthofen in 1877 and has found since its way into general usage. It gets its name from the lucrative Chinese silk trade, which began during the Han Dynasty (206 BCE–220 CE), and was the major reason for the connection of trade routes into an extensive trans-continental network.
![[A foreign traveler on a camel, Northern Wei (386–534)]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Cernuschi_Museum_20060812_150_s.jpg "A foreign traveler on a camel, Northern Wei (386–534)")
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![[Italian pottery of the mid]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Mid15thCenturyPotteryNorthernItaly_s.jpg "Italian pottery of the mid")
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![[A bronze rhinoceros figure with silver inlay, from the Western Han period of China, sporting a saddle on its back...]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Xihan_rhino_2C_gold_26_silver_inlays_s.jpg "A bronze rhinoceros figure with silver inlay, from the Western Han period of China, sporting a saddle on its back...")
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![[The Silk Road.]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/SeidenstrasseGMT_s.jpg "The Silk Road.")
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![[Maenad in silk dress, Naples National Museum.]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Menade_s.jpg "Maenad in silk dress, Naples National Museum.")
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![[A Chinese Tang Dynasty terracotta statuette of a foreign male dancer from the west, with traces of polychrome]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Cernuschi_Museum_20060812_180_s.jpg "A Chinese Tang Dynasty terracotta statuette of a foreign male dancer from the west, with traces of polychrome")
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