I am not a road in the modern sense. I am a network of paths that connected East and West for centuries. I carried silk, spices, ideas, and disease. What am I?

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The Silk Road. The Silk Road was a network of ancient trade routes connecting China to the Mediterranean. It transported goods like silk and spices, but also ideas, religions, and unfortunately diseases like the Black Death.

"I am not a road in the modern sense. I am a network of paths that connected East and West for centuries. I carried silk, spices, ideas, and disease. What am I?"

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