Chapter 7

Chapter seven discussed the different type of roads that were used crossed the world as transportation, trading routes, and much more. The different roads this chapter talked about was silk road, sand road, and sea road. Silk roads are roads that are based in Eurasia. This road help provide transportion for civilizations in Eurasia. These roads were like a network that spread all over the continent. If it weren't for these roads, ideas, materials, religion, and items would not have diffused from one side of the continent to the other by trade. Sand roads was based in Europe and Africa and helped encourage and develop long distance trade. Sea roads were mainly used in the Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean which allowed transportation on water that could be used for trade or military purposes. The road that was used by certain civilization depending on the location of the civilization and without these roads, transportation would have been very difficult.