The Silk Road was an ancient network of trade routes that connected the East to the West
What fuelled the great explorations of Spain and Portugal weren't because they liked doing it, it was because silk and spices were super expensive to be traded along the Silk Road, past Arab states that imposed hefty taxes, and had to be shipped all the way across the Mediterranean Sea, where ports made fortunes by levying even more on the goods.
Flappers began wearing shorter flamboyant dresses that went against the modest long dresses that were worn by the older generations for modesty reasons. They also practiced dances that were labeled “provocative” at the time. They also attended speakeasy’s where underground secretive drinking was done due to prohibition.
They walked across the Bering Straight, which was a land bridge at the time
