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The Silk Route of Uzbekistan is the name given to the road that linked Asia to the Western civilizations through caravan trade for centuries in the ancient and middle ages. Many nations were involved in trading goods that contributed to their prospering economy. The most valuable commodity transacted was silk, which gives the justified reason of calling the route Silk Route.
This famous trade route is also referred to as the The Great Silk Road. Eastern and Western civilizations built up a strong business relation with the help of this caravan trade system for centuries. The most common route of the Silk Road crossed the regions of China, Tarima basin, Pamir and Tien-Shan ranges. It also passed through Uzbekistan, Iran, Central Asia, Afghanistan, the eastern shores of the Mediterranean Sea and many more lands. This road was first traversed from China to the capital of the Roman Empire in the 2nd century BC covering a distance of about 7000 kilometers.
Central Asia and specially Uzbekistan gained from this Silk Route. Many places of Uzbekistan produced large number of commodities that were successfully exported to the Western countries. Route of the Silk Road in Uzbekistan encompasses places like Kara-Kum and Kyzyl-Kum deserts, ridges of the Pamirs and Tien-Shan, Bukhara, Samarkand, Urgench, Khiva, Ferghana Valley and Osh. Byzantine clothes, Afrasiabian ceramics, Turkic slaves and many other goods, were bought from China or India, loaded in the caravans for the Uzbeks to buy.
The Great Silk Road of Uzbekistan promoted mutual understanding and reconciliation of cultures from East and West. The Great Silk Route in Uzbekistan brought about a remarkable change in the economy of the country. The living standards rose very high during this period. Other than Uzbekistan, many nations prospered because of The Silk Route of Uzbekistan.
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