Caravans were made up of many groups of both private merchants and government officials. %0D%0A%0D%0AThe travelers hired professional camel drivers, baggage handlers, camp tenders, and other workers, all of whom typically worked only one relatively short stretch of the entire route. %0D%0A%0D%0APrivate merchants hired their own armed guards; the Chinese government officials who traveled between Chang'an and Tashkent had military escorts. %0D%0A%0D%0AThe caravans carried supplies of food, water, and animal fodder for crossing the deserts that lay in their path. Depending on the terrain, they might go as few as ten or as many as fifty miles in a day.. . .%0D%0A%0D%0AAlthough some caravans from the Silk Route took a northern route from Merv through Armenia to reach Byzantium overland, many others headed south.%0D%0A%0D%0AFrom John S. Major, The Silk Route: 7,000 Miles of History. Copyright 1995 by HarperCollins%0D%0A%0D%0A(1 point)%0D%0AResponses%0D%0A%0D%0ACaravans were made up of many groups of both private merchants and government officials. %0D%0ACaravans were made up of many groups of both private merchants and government officials. %0D%0A%0D%0AThe travelers hired professional camel drivers, baggage handlers, camp tenders, and other workers, all of whom typically worked only one relatively short stretch of the entire route. %0D%0AThe travelers hired professional camel drivers, baggage handlers, camp tenders, and other workers, all of whom typically worked only one relatively short stretch of the entire route. %0D%0A%0D%0APrivate merchants hired their own armed guards; the Chinese government officials who traveled between Chang'an and Tashkent had military escorts. %0D%0APrivate merchants hired their own armed guards; the Chinese government officials who traveled between Chang'an and Tashkent had military escorts. %0D%0A%0D%0AThe caravans carried supplies of food, water, and animal fodder for crossing the deserts that lay in their path. Depending on the terrain, they might go as few as ten or as many as fifty miles in a day.. .
The caravans carried supplies of food, water, and animal fodder for crossing the deserts that lay in their path. Depending on the terrain, they might go as few as ten or as many as fifty miles in a day. Although some caravans from the Silk Route took a northern route from Merv through Armenia to reach Byzantium overland, many others headed south. From John S. Major, The Silk Route: 7,000 Miles of History. Copyright 1995 by HarperCollins
