Silk Road was part of something.
== Initiation in China (130 BCE) ==The Silk Road was initiated and spread by China's Han dynasty through exploration and conquests in Central Asia
Under its strong integrating dynamics on the one hand and the impacts of change it transmitted on the other, tribal societies previously living in isolation along the Silk Road, and pastoralists who were of barbarian cultural development, were drawn to the riches and opportunities of the civilisations connected by the routes, taking on the trades of marauders or mercenaries

