Silk Road & the Indian Ocean

The traders moved goods and ideas throughout eastern Europe, Africa, and Asia through a complex series of roads that traveled all throughout these places. In Africa, camels were mostly used for transportation because they were best suited for desert travel. This led to the invention of the camel saddle, which made the ride more comfortable, making it more efficient. Along with the physical goods that the traders were moving they moved religious ideas, new technologies, war tactics and sadly also diseases. The Silk Road connected the ancient world in an amazing was that would never would've happened without it. Without the Silk Road, many of the amazing technologies of Asia wouldn't have made it to Europe and the Mediterranean. The Asian civilizations were much more technologically advanced, even though the history books like to act like it was the other way around. One of the empires that benefitted from the Silk Road was the Sasanid Empire, because they saw the travel routes as a way that they could spread their religious ideas.