Stock Photo - The Silk Road is an interconnected series of ancient trade routes through various regions of the Asian continent mainly connecting Chang´an in China,with Asia Minor and the Mediterranean. Trade on the Silk Route was a significant factor in the development of the great civilizations of China,Egypt,Mesopotamia,Persia,India,and Rome,and helped to lay the foundations for the modern world. Kashgar,a city located on the Silk Route used to be called the pearl of the Silk Route. Every Sunday a market is held on the northeast edge of the town. Local products of every conceivable kind are on sale here: carpets,hats,jewelry,Uigur knives and even donkeys and horses. With an average of 150,000 visitors it is thought to be the largest open_air market in the world.GALLO