Can you name the present-day countries where Silk Road trade routes existed?

Type of Route	Country	Key Cities
Continental
Continental		Peshawar, Taxila, Multan, Debal
Continental
Continental		Gyeongju, Ulsan
Continental		Aleppo, Damascus, Palmyra
Continental		Mshatta, Petra
Continental
Continental
Continental		Merv, Urgench
Continental		Bukhara, Samakand, Shahrisabz, Khiva
Continental		Khujand, Istaravshan
Continental		Hazrat-e Turkestan, Almaty
Continental

Type of Route	Country	Key Cities
Continental		Pyongyang
Continental		Karakorum
Maritime		Colombo
Maritime
Maritime		Astrakhan, Derbent
Maritime		Muscat
Maritime		Aden
Maritime		Suez
Maritime		Venice
Maritime
Maritime		Vijaya, Hanoi, Hoi An
Maritime		N/A
Maritime		Srivijaya, Pasai, Perlak

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Silk Road Countries Quiz

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	ImpromptuJ:	Jul 15th, 2011 at 04:24 GMT		40 points
	The Kyrgyz must have felt pretty left out of the whole silk craze...

	plvcolin:	Jul 15th, 2011 at 04:34 GMT		17 points
	The silk road is a very arbitrary thing...if you want to include all places (which by including the maritime entrepots I'm assuming you are trying to do) then I would start at Wikipedia which suggest east africa, horn of africa, cyprus, greece, sri lanka, indonesia, etc. being included

	GeorgiK:	Jul 15th, 2011 at 05:47 GMT		25 points
	I like the idea and the quiz itself, but there are some problems with it. I don't know about Wiki, but it could be a starting point of the research. I am pretty sure they made stops in Cyprus and Greece on the way to Venice and Somalia and Ethiopia should also be parts of the trade. Also didn't the maritime route go through Constantinople to Crimea? That would include Ukraine and possibly others around Black Sea.

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	Goducksgo:	Jul 15th, 2011 at 07:17 GMT		7 points
	I'll try Kyrgyzstan. What? Ok I'll try again. Come on! I know I'm spelling it right! Why won't it work!

	tbwilson:	Jul 15th, 2011 at 08:16 GMT		3 points
	No Ukraine (Kiev)? No Kyrgyzstan? There are some who even say Birka, Sweden, was the northwestern limit of the Silk Road.

	Denicio:	Jul 15th, 2011 at 08:45 GMT		7 points
	I guess the routes that are counted as part of the Silk Road are a little arbitrary, but enjoyable quiz nonetheless. And it reminds me how I'd love to travel along it one day, if all of these pesky conflicts in Central Asia would just calm down.

	dolby:	Jul 15th, 2011 at 11:28 GMT		2 points
	Agra and Fatehpur Sikri are very far from sea. So, how were they part of the maritime silk routes?

	gowhere:	Jul 15th, 2011 at 12:38 GMT		14 points
	I agree with GeorgiK: at the time of the Silk Road, Venice wasn't just a city in the Adriatic but was a Republic which controlled islands throughout the eastern Mediterranean. At a minimum Cyprus and Greece should be included, but Croatia, Lebanon, and Israel could also be considered.

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	volkstraum:	Jul 15th, 2011 at 15:35 GMT		-1 points
	Where does it start and stop? I would think Japan to Italy or some arbitrary Western European country. Otherwise you're only talking varying shades of middle-men on the longest silk route.

	eab21:	Jul 15th, 2011 at 15:57 GMT		5 points
	How was Kyrgyzstan not there? All of its bordering countries were. Did the Chinese just decide to split the Silk Road around Kyrgyzstan for some reason?

	will101:	Jul 15th, 2011 at 18:03 GMT		13 points
	Every source that I've ever seen includes a bunch of countries skipped over here, like Japan, Taiwan, Thailand, Singapore, Burma/Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Kuwait, Eritrea, Djibouti, Somalia, Israel, Lebanon, Ukraine, Cyprus, Greece, and the end of the line in France, Belgium, Germany, Switzerland and the Netherlands. Oh, and I almost forgot, definitely Kyrgyzstan.

	henster:	Jul 15th, 2011 at 23:34 GMT		8 points
	every time i type in 'north korea south korea' i always instinctively start singing 'marilyn monroe'

	IanFoyeHouse:	Jul 16th, 2011 at 03:26 GMT		2 points
	Enjoyable quiz.

	megascarp:	Jul 16th, 2011 at 20:47 GMT		2 points
	Didn't Greece start its own industry after getting silk worms from China?

	the_luggage:	Jul 17th, 2011 at 13:26 GMT		-4 points
	Too UScentric. Just look at the source :p Can someone please explain why Cambodia is listed with N/A but the other former Khmer countries aren't. Is it because the road went through Cambodia but that there wasn't a specific city it stopped in? One would also assume that there was a large port in Southern Cambodia, Thailand, Mynamar or Vietnam (those mentioned are all Central or Northern Vietnam).

	catcherj:	Jul 18th, 2011 at 01:49 GMT		3 points
	I would expect modern-day Singapore to have been an important stop on any maritime route through the Straits of Malacca. Why is it left off?

	samcash13593:	Jul 18th, 2011 at 15:24 GMT		2 points
	I had read that Somalia was connected via the sea to other silk road countries like Yemen. They are pretty close.

	Zeldanon:	Aug 11th, 2011 at 03:27 GMT		0 points
	Well, I know it went through Persia, which are now present day Iraq and Iran, and I managed to get 15 other countries on the first try. Thanks World History class, I never knew you would come in so handy :)

	ctbone123:	Oct 14th, 2011 at 05:24 GMT		2 points
	Like others have said, there are some missing countries. Somalia, Lebanon, etc.

	lezerwof0217:	Oct 27th, 2011 at 21:22 GMT		1 point
	Why aren't Israel or Kyrgyzstan on the list?

	Wrhodarmer:	Jan 16th, 2013 at 11:49 GMT		0 points
	this quiz shall now be named "name countries that end in stan"