The threadlike process of a neuron which conducts nerve impulses from the cell body to the neuron's ending (bouton) where it is transmitted via a synapse to another neuron, muscle or gland. Syn. nerve fibre (when it is sheathed). See neuron; synapse.
The Silk Road was a trade route that went from China to Eastern Europe. It went along the northern borders of China, India, and Persia and ended up in Eastern Europe near today's Turkey and the Mediterranean Sea. Not all that was traded along the Silk Road was good. 2  It is thought that the bubonic plague, or Black Death, traveled to Europe from the Silk Road. 3  Very few merchants traveled along the entire route. 4  Goods were traded at many cities and trade posts along the way.
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.