# Contact and exchange

Peoples have always traded goods, words and ideas. The Silk Road, the Indian Ocean routes and the Atlantic crossings carried spices, crops, religions and numbers, and also disease and conquest.

Connects to:
- [Cultures](https://mapideas.org/i/cultures)
- [Exchange](https://mapideas.org/i/so_trade)
- [Pilgrimage](https://mapideas.org/i/re_pilgrim)
- [Dialogue between traditions](https://mapideas.org/i/re_dialogue)
- [Migration and diaspora](https://mapideas.org/i/cu_diaspora)
- [Routes and exchange](https://mapideas.org/i/hi_routes)
- [Why do the same tales recur?](https://mapideas.org/i/q_x_same_tales)
- [Can a culture change and last?](https://mapideas.org/i/q_x_stay_self)

Sources:
- [Wikipedia: Silk Road](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silk_Road)
- [Wikipedia: Cultural diffusion](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_diffusion)

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