Fill in the Blanks Chang'an - Tian-Shan Corridor Fill in the BlanksOnline version Fill in the blanks with key words from the Chang'an - Tian-Shan Corridor text in this educational game. by Bakyt Toktasyn 1 Ornek Tian Talgar Desert Aktobe Kazakhstan 7 Chang'an 400 5 mirrors gunpowder UNESCO List weapons 154 Heritage Dynasty Xian Almaty Shan 2014 Mountains 000 Han World Taklamakan The Chang'an - Tian - Shan Corridor was a , - kilometre - long stretch of the Silk Road that ran through Kazakhstan . In , it became the first section of the Silk Road to be included on the . The route began in ( modern - day ) , the capital city of the . It looped around the top of the and went through the - and on into the steppe of . In places , travellers were metres below sea level , in other parts they passed mountains , metres above ! They followed the route past the ancient settlements of , , Kulan and , eventually reaching . From here , they could follow the next section of the Silk Road towards Europe . The reason people travelled along the Chang'an - Tian - Shan Corridor was to trade goods : merchants from the East exchanged silk , spices , porcelain and for cotton , wool , silver and from the West . People also traded salt , sugar , precious stones , and horses . But perhaps the greatest legacy of the Chang'an - Tian - Shan Corridor wasn't the material goods that passed along it , but the ideas . Hundreds of years before international flights , mass media and the Internet , globalisation began with the Silk Road , and it was the Chang'an - Tian - Shan Corridor through Kazakhstan that was one of the major links between East and West .
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