In today's world, Asia is an economic power thanks to the two largest and most populous countries in the world, China and India. “In the thousand years from 500 to 1500, Asia was an amazing, connected and creative place. It had the five largest cities in the world, all at the heart of great empires. Some, such as Delhi, Beijing and Istanbul, remain important cities today” (Gordon. Pg. Vii). History shows that these two countries have always been the center of attention and desired by many invaders for wealth and power. This essay will give a rough idea of ​​how these countries came into existence, but the main theme will be “The Silk Road” and how it connected Asia with the rest of the world, from the Mediterranean to Northeast Africa and Europe. This essay will briefly explain how these “interconnections” between different parts of Asia have influenced each other economically, religiously, politically and culturally. Asia produced money and credit that traders knew and accepted from the Middle East to China. The Silk Road takes its name from China's famous silk trade among its major trading partners. A few centuries before the arrival of the Buddhist monk Xuanzang in Issy Kul (now Kyrgyzstan), silk had become a universally accepted currency between China and the nomads west and north of the Great Wall. Silk was so important because of the ecological differences between Chinese agriculture and the grasslands of the nomads to the west. Steppe nomads raised horses, and their livestock were in constant demand by Chinese elites; China grew wheat and only China produced silk. These four elements became the main reasons for the war between these two regions. China wanted horses and cattle and the nomads wanted grain and silk; so they constantly... middle of paper... er, they do business with other Islamic nations. Some of these rulers, including Almish, also thought that the Kaliph, the civil and religious leader of the Muslim states, would help them economically. In the time of dominant Islam, Indian architecture took a new form. At that time “the use of shapes” (instead of natural shapes) and marble was introduced for decoration. The Taj Mahal in Agra and Humayun's Tomb in Delhi are some of the great buildings that are still standing to this day. medicinal products” (Gordon, page vii). The Silk Road and religions became the most important passages for technological, cultural and commercial exchanges between China and India. This “interconnection” contributed to the development of the great civilizations of both China and India.