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1 B.C. is when the silk raod was open by Zhang Qian
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Silk if forst seen in Rome, slik clothes became the fashion rage quickly.
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3000BC, China breeds silkworms and makes silk and is the first country to do so
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Many disagreements and tribal incasions ended the Han Dynasty and China went into choas
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Chinese pilgrams started to travel to northen India because it was the sorces of Buddhism
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Mohammad, the Prophet, is born in Mecca.
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Islam spreads from Arabia to Asia
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Buddhist monk Xuan Zang returns back to china with new Buddhist ideas
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Mohammad, the Prophet, dies
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Genghis Khan unites the Mingols and starts to conquer
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Yuan Dynasty is established by Kublai Khan
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Kubilai Khan conquers south China and this is the time the Mongol Empire is at its biggest
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The Black Death plague kills many people and spreads from Europe to Central Asia, following the Silk Road
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The Ming Dynasty rises after defeating the Mongols
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The Ming Dynasty stops trading silk on the SIlk Road outside of China.
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Baron Ferdinand von Richthofen named the road, the Silk Road and the rerm was used for the first time
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The Tang Dynasty rises in China
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Christianity takes root in China throught the work of Christian missionaries
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Xuan Zang goes to India to study Buddhism
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The enlightened Tang Dynasty collapses as Buddhism declines.