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The Silk Route became the first real link between the East and the West around 100BCE. Apart from silk, many other goods like porcelain and Chinese inventions like gunpowder and paper etc. were taken to the west. Many kingdoms lay along the route. The people and rulers tried to control the route by demanding payment for letting the traders pass though. They took taxes, gifts and tribute from the traders. In return/ they offered security against robbers to the traders. But, most importantly the travellers and traders carried with them their culture, ideas and beliefs to distant lands. Buddhism spread to China through the Silk Route.
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