1The Silk Road and the Trans-Saharan/Sub-Saharan trade routes were two important trade routes which connected

civilizations not only through trade but culture and beliefs. The Silk Road and the Trans-Saharan/Sub-Saharan trade routes many similarities and differences in what religious and political ties the created and what the transported. Although the trade routes were similar in that the transported ideas technologies and religion. The Silk Road did not have as much as a religious impact as the Trans-Saharan/Sub-Saharan trade routes. While both trade routes transported goods technology culture and religion What each of them accomplished differed drastically. Topic one good transported Silk road traded Luxuries like silk While the where used to get salt in return for gold In both trade was major part of economy Topic 2 technology and ideas transported Topic 3 religion and culture transported

India and China were 2 large, important and complex societies with many levels of social hierarchy. Both India and China had strict hierarchies in which people were separated into different social castes.