I believe is it because it says it’s equal to it
The Sedition Act of 1918<span> was an Act of the </span>United States Congress<span> that extended the </span>Espionage Act of 1917<span> to cover a broader range of offenses, notably speech and the expression of opinion that cast the government or the war effort in a negative light or interfered with the sale of government bonds.</span>
The Enlightenment, also known as the Age of Reason, was an intellectual and cultural movement in the eighteenth century that emphasized reason over superstition and science over blind faith. Empiricism promotes the idea that knowledge comes from experience and observation of the world.
Well a republic is a state in which supreme power is held by the people and their elected representatives, and which has an elected or nominated president rather than a monarch and a democracy is a system of government by the whole population or all the eligible members of a state, typically through elected representatives.
No dangers I think unless you are traveling alone in deserts. The Silk road streches long into present Turcky. So, it depends on which part of the Silk Road you are going to.