what did European product trade via the Silk road
The Silk Road was a trade route that went from China to Eastern Europe. It went along the northern borders of China, India, and Persia and ended up in Eastern Europe near today's Turkey and the Mediterranean Sea. Not all that was traded along the Silk Road was good. 2  It is thought that the bubonic plague, or Black Death, traveled to Europe from the Silk Road. 3  Very few merchants traveled along the entire route. 4  Goods were traded at many cities and trade posts along the way.
Trade on the Silk Road was a significant factor in the development of the civilizations of China, the Indian subcontinent, Persia, Europe, the Horn of Africa and Arabia, opening long-distance, political and economic relations between the civilizations.he transmission of Buddhism to China via the Silk Road began in the 1st century CE, according to a semi-legendary account of an ambassador sent to the West by the Chinese Emperor Ming (58â75).