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).
Mediterranean region. And while silk was one of the major products transported from China to the. West as far back as the Roman Empire, the trade, especially in such other luxury goods as spices (from. India) and gemstones (from western Asia), was active in both directions. Along with the trade in. material goods, the Silk Road was the medium for cultural exchange. One of the prime examples of. this was the spread of Buddhism from India into Afghanistan, China, Korea, Japan, and Southeast. Asia.