The Silk Road is a historically important international trade route(路线) between China and the Mediterranean (地中海). It began (在.....期间) the Western Han Dynasty and has been a b between the East and the West for over 2,000 years.
The ancient road started from Chang an (now Xi'an) and ended in Eastern (/'jʊərəp/), near today's Turkey and the Mediterranean Sea. It was about 6,500 kilo-metres long and went across one-fourth of the planet. The Silk Road got its name b Chinese silk used to be carried along this road. Silk, jade, ceramics and iron w west to Rome. And from the West came glass, gems and food like carrots and sesame.
The Silk Road was very important to both China and the rest of the world. It was than an ancient international trade route. Besides trade, (/'nɒlɪdʒl/) about arts, science and literature, as well as crafts(工艺) and technologies was (分享) across the Silk Road. In this way, languages and cultures (发展) and influenced each other.
Today, along the Silk Road there're many places of , such as the Terracotta Warriors in Xi'an and. Mogao Grottoes in Dunhuang. Now a new train line runs from Beijing across the Silk Road.
