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AP* EDITION|THE EARTH AND ITS PEOPLE: A GLOBAL HISTORY CHAPTER 7 Larger Concept Section Review Vocabulary Terms Details THE SILK ROAD Origins and Operations -The rise of the Parthian kingdom helped foster the Silk Road, a route by which Chinese products were exchanged with goods from the Mediterranean regions -General Zhang led expeditions that established the route from China through Central Asia Silk Road-caravan routes connecting China and the Middle East across Central Asia and Iran Parthians-Iranians ruling dynasty between ca. 250 B.C.E. and 226 C.E. -The Seleucid kings focused their energies on Mesopotamia and Syria which allowed an Iranian nomadic leader to establish an independent kingdom of a people called Parthians in northeastern Iran