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The Silk Road The term Silk Road denotes a network of trails and trading posts, oases and emporia connecting East Asia to the Mediterranean. Along the way, branch routes led to different destinations from the main route, with one especially important branch leading to northwestern India and thus to other routes throughout the subcontinent.
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The Silk Road Trade Routes
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Chiana or Xi’an
Capital of the Tang Dynasty The most clearly defined segment of the Silk Road was that leading northwest from Chang’an through the Gansu Corridor. This segment passed through Lanzhou, Wuxi, Dunhuang, and Yumen (the famous Jade Gate of antiquity) and thus to the deserts and oases of Central Asia.
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To Lanzhou Chiana or Xi’an
Capital of the Tang Dynasty The Silk Road
A 5,000 Miles
Journey
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The Road To Lanzhou Bounded by mountains to the south, and by the western Gobi Desert to the north (and defined as well by the western stretches of the Great Wall of China), the corridor forms in effect a narrow funnel through which all trade passed on the Silk Road into and out of China.
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The Road To Dunhuang Serving as the westernmost fort of the early Tang Dynasty, Dunhuang was a key trading post situated on the "Silk Road" but also the military headquarters for the operations in the Western Regions. Merchants from the West and soldiers from central China making the trading center a cultural "melting pot."
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The Road To Turpan Turpan used to be an important strategic point on the Silk Road. As early as two thousand years ago, a town called Jiaohe was built four kilometers from today's town of Turpan.
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