How did trade and culture go hand in hand

1.	How did trade and culture go hand in hand
Answer» (i) The silk routes are a good example of vibrant pre-modern trade and cultural links between distant parts of the world.(ii) The silk route was used by the Chinese traders to export silk to other countries.(iii) These routes were used by traders to trade goods and exchange culture from one country to another.(iv) Early Christian missionaries almost certainly travelled through this route to Asia, likewise the early Muslim preachers did few centuries later.(v) These routes were also used to spread religions. Buddhism emerged from Eastern India and spread in several directions through interesting points on the silk routes.

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