the.com/silk road
the world's first supply chain, running on camels, greed, and rumors of dragons.
means a sprawling network of trade routes linking china to the mediterranean, moving silk, spices, ideas, and diseases in both directions.
from coined in 1877 by german geographer ferdinand von richthofen as seidenstrasse, though the routes had already been humming for over a thousand years before anyone named them.
not one roada mesh of overland and sea routes, thousands of miles
biggest exportblack death traveled it faster than silk
paper trailpapermaking leaked from china to europe via this network
named twicea dark-web drug market later stole the name