a network of trade routes that stretched for more than four thousand miles across Asia. The Han Empire opened the silk road by defeating the nomadic people in northwestern China.
It was a old network of trade routes that were for centuries central to cultural interaction first through areas of Eurasia<span> connecting the </span>East<span> and </span>West<span> and all the way from the Korean peninsula </span><span>and Japan </span><span>to the Mediterranean Sea</span>
