Reading: Fill in the Blanks — practice #rfib-005

The Silk Road was never a single road but a sprawling network of routes connecting East and West. Along these paths, traders exchanged not only goods but also ideas, religions and drop here. Caravans carried silk westward and returned with silver, glass and horses, creating mutual drop here between distant empires. Cities that lay along the route grew wealthy and drop here as centres of learning. The eventual rise of sea trade caused the overland routes to slowly drop here in importance.