Unemployed workers: If you have a question about an unemployment claim, you must contact the telecenter by phone (800-318-6022) or through the Web. Non-telecenter staff do not have access to your records and cannot answer questions about your claim.
Extending 6,000 kilometres (4,000 miles), the Silk Road derives its name from the lucrative trade in Chinese silk carried out along its length, beginning during the Han dynasty (206 BCE â 220 CE).
Silk weaving became a major industry and one of China's chief exports in the Han dynasty. The caravan route across Central Asia, known as the Silk Road, took Chinese silk to Syria, and on to Rome. According to legend, about 140 BCE, sericulture as well as silk had spread overland from China to India.