Really harsh. They suffered through a lot of hardship and pain throughout the years through many suffereings such as being killed and tortured and died rights.
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Silk Road, also called Silk Route, ancient trade route, linking China with the West, that carried goods and ideasbetween the two great civilizations of Rome and China. Silk went westward, and wools, gold, and silver went east. China also received Nestorian Christianity and Buddhism (from India) via the Silk Road.