The Chinese were the origins of the Silk Road providing many exports to the rest of the world: The Chinese exported porcelain, tea, silk, and other items.
The Ottomans were the trading post for Silk Road goods into Europe: European traders would come to the Ottoman Empire to trade their goods for goods from all along the Silk Road.
George Bush II and a bunch of corrupt military and political officials.
Answer:
because the north stopped doing slavery but the south kept going
Explanation:
why was that? the north realized that what they were doing was wrong and they were getting lazy but the south was not stopping and they were getting lazy but in the late 1850s the confederates were beginning to stop but the united states taxed them badly and that is how the civil war started ( oh! by the way the American civil war was about money).