Answer:
B) The Silk Road promoted a cultural exchange between China and the West and helped spread Chinese inventions.
Explanation:
The Silk Road was a network of trade routes organized from the Chinese silk business since the 1st century B, which extended throughout the Asian continent, connecting China with Mongolia, the Indian subcontinent, Persia, Arabia, Syria, Turkey, Europe, and Africa.
The term "Silk Road" was created by the German geographer Ferdinand Freiherr von Richthofen, who introduced it in his work <em>Old and New Approaches to the Silk Road</em>, in 1877. It owes its name to the most prestigious merchandise circulating in it, the silk, whose elaboration was a secret that only the Chinese knew. The Romans (especially the women of the aristocracy) became great fans of this fabric, after knowing about it before the beginning of our era through the Persians, who were engaged in their trade. Many products traveled these routes: precious stones and metals, wool or linen fabrics, amber, ivory, lacquer, spices, Chinese porcelain, glass, manufactured materials, coral, etc.
The Silk Road gave rise to groupings of military states originating in northern China, opening Central Asia and China to cultural and ideological exchange and allowing the spread of religions such as Nestorianism, Manichaeism, Buddhism, and later Islam, and creating the influential Jazaria Federation, which in the end of its glory brought the greatest continental empire that ever existed: the Mongol Empire, with its political centers chained along the Silk Road.
