The Silk Road is the rame of different roads that long ago connected Europe, Africa and Asia.Peone（到达） these different places along the roads. They began to travel the Silk Road（多于）3,000 years ago.By the time the Chinese silk（贸易）became important in the world, the Silk Road had covered almost 6,500 kilometres.
Businessmen tavclling along the Silk Road carried silk, of course. They afso carried cloth, valuable （位头） and gold.
It is said that Roman soldiers travelled through central Asia. They started to live somewhere near the （古老） Chinese village of Liqian. Some of these Romans married（当地）Chinese women and the story of blue-eyed villages of China was started.
During the busiest（阶段）, people from different ountries met each other and（分享）goods, stories,languages and cultures.These（包括）people and goods from the Mediterranean, Persian, Magyar, Armenian, India and Chinese areas.
In modern times, the old Silk Road routes（路线） are still used. but now the y are crossed by trains, not camels or horses. There is even a Silk Route（博物馆） in Jiuquan in China. In this way, China protects the history of many countries and nations.
