One of the world's most ancient and historically important trade routes,the Silk Road conjures up exotic images of camel caravans,windswept deserts,and such legendary figures as Genghis Khan and Marco Polo.Extending as far as the Indian kingdoms in the west,to present-day Xian in China in the east,the Silk Road was already a crossroads of Asia by the third century B.C.
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世界上最古老,歷史上最重要的貿易路線之一——絲綢之路,總給人一種富有異國情調的印象：駱駝商隊、狂風肆虐的沙漠,還有諸如成吉思汗和馬可波羅等傳奇人物.絲綢之路綿亘遠長,西至印度王國,東到中國現在的西安,早在公元前三世紀,絲綢之路就已經成為了亞洲交通的十字路口.