<em>The correct answer to the importance of the silk road is:</em>
<em>(D)It allowed resources and luxury goods to be traded across continents.</em>
The Silk Road was important because it helped to generate trade and commerce between a number of different kingdoms and empires.It went along the northern borders of China, India, and Persia and ended up in Eastern Europe near today's Turkey and the Mediterranean Sea. This helped for ideas, culture, inventions, and unique products to spread across much of the settled world. It was called the Silk Road because one of the major products traded was silk cloth from China.
