Merchants on the silk road transported goods and traded at bazaars or caravanserai along the way. They traded goods such as silk, spices, tea, ivory, cotton, wool, precious metals, and ideas. Use these resources to explore this ancient trade route with your students this means without merchants they wouldn't be able to make any money. So the king relies on the merchant and the merchant controls how much money they make.
There were concerns over the state representation which led to a bicameral legislature. The upper house was based off equal state votes and the lower house was based on population
