Trivia: What were the trade routes that linked China to the Roman Empire called?
The Silk Road
The Spice Routes
The Tin Route
The Incense Route
The correct answer is The Silk Road
So why is this answer correct? : There was no singular “Silk Road” — the name refers to a series of routes that began in roughly 130 BCE and ended in 1453 when the Ottoman Empire closed off trade with the East. These routes ran roughly 4,000 miles through central Asias. German geographer Ferdinand von Richtofen officially coined the term to describe the routes, four centuries after the fact, in 1877.