Preserve it's small armies while doing enough damage to erode the Union's will to fight
Himalaya's: Isolated China.and gave protection, and water, and minerals.
Trading : As far as I know from when the silk road started ( but this could be wrong)
<em>POPULAR EXPORTS : </em> Jade, Silk, Paper, Porcelain.
<em>Popular Imports : </em>Spices, Glass, AND ALSO : Buddhism ( from india)
In the years leading up to the Civil War, the South continued to fall behind the North in all of the following except "military leadership," since the South contained some of the greatest generals of all time, such as Robert E. Lee.
They traded through the trade routes around the Red Sea and traded.
Buddhism appeared in the sixth century and rivaled hinduism
