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.
The Silk Road or network of trade routes across the Asian continent connected East, South, and Western Asia with the Mediterranean world, as well as North and Northeast Africa â¦ and Europe. It encouraged development by opening the lands through trade.2 people found this useful.xum was located just south of Kush on a high plateau. Today the countries of Ethiopia and Eritrea are located here. Axum â¦ had access to the Red Sea. By 50 CE, traders, using the Silk Road, came to Axum for its salt, gold, and gems.