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Silk and Spice Routes connected various empires across Europe and Asia, including the Roman Empire and the Han Dynasty, around the 1st century. These routes connected a number of trading posts and spanned a large part of the known world. See Silk Road.
Incense Routes connected the Arab world to Europe and were largely run by Arabian traders supplying items like frankincense and myrrh.
The Amber Road connected the North Sea and Baltic Sea coasts by way of the Vistula and DnieperThe Dnieper River ( Belarusian: /Dnyapro; Russian: /Dnepr; Ukrainian: i/Dnipro; Polish: Dniepr Latin: Borysthenes Danaper is a river (2290 km length) which flows from Russia through Belarus and then Ukraine. In all three countries it has essentially the s rivers to ItalyThe Italian Republic or Italy ( Italian: Italia is a country in the south of Europe, consisting mainly of a boot-shaped peninsula together with two large islands in the Mediterranean Sea: Sicily and Sardinia. To the north, where it borders France, Switzer, GreeceGreece formally called the Hellenic Republic (in Greek: ) Hellenike Demokratia , is a country in the southeast of Europe on the southern tip of the Balkan peninsula. It is bounded on land by Bulgaria, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and Albania, Black SeaNASA MODIS The Black Sea (also known as the Euxine Sea is an inland sea between southeastern Europe and Asia Minor. It is connected to the Mediterranean Sea by the Bosporus and the Sea of Marmara, and to the Sea of Azov by the Strait of Kerch. There is a and EgyptJumhuriyat Misr al-Arabiyah ( In Detail) Official language Arabic Capital Cairo Largest City Cairo President Hosni Mubarak Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif Area Total % water Ranked 29th 1,001,450 km² 0. 6% Population Total (2003) Density Ranked 15th 74,718,797. The Silk Road could then be reached from the Black Sea for further transporting Baltic amberThis is about the material called amber. For other things called amber, see Amber (disambiguation). Amber is a fossil resin much used for the manufacture of ornamental objects. Although not mineralized it is sometimes considered and used as a gemstone..