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  "description": "The Silk Road was a network of trade routes connecting East Asia to Europe from ~130 BCE to 1453 CE. It transported not just silk, but ideas, technologies, religions (Buddhism, Islam, Christianity), and diseases (Black Death). Not a single road — a web of land and sea routes across Eurasia.",
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