Trade- KROOD

Trade moves goods and ideas, because trade routes are essentially just connections established between countries. If certain areas interact with others enough, ideas and goods are bound to permeate other cultures. For example, China would trade peaches and apricots, as well as spices like cinnamon for goods like jasmine oil, copper oxides, and precious stones. This was a basic exchange of goods, but it was the beginning of countries recognizing that other places had resources that they didn't. The exchange of goods led to the exchange of ideas, simply because it allowed people to have conversations with other people from other places. As a result of trade routes, the Sasanid Empire adopted Zoroastrianism as the state religion. Zoroastrianism was spread via missionaries on the silk road. This shows how trade routes effected the exchange of ideas because they provided the means for conversations to happen.