By 
Shannon Castelo
 | 
TED-Ed Original

The Silk Road: Connecting the ancient world through trade

With modern technology a global exchange of goods and ideas can happen at the click of a button. But what about 2000 years ago? Shannon Harris Castelo unfolds the history of the 5000-mile Silk Road a network of multiple routes that used the common language of commerce to connect the world's major settlements thread by thread.

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