The Silk road connected Bactria with the Roman Empire in the west and China in the far east.
丝绸之路连接巴克特里亚的罗马帝国在西部和中国在远东地区。
It is said that lawyers and scholars were much respected in that empire and that the inhabitants of ghana wore garments of wool, cotton, silk and velvet
据说律师和学者在这个帝国受到尊重，加纳居民穿的是羊毛、棉花、丝和绒的衣服。
The great explorers: Europe reaching for Asia - The disappearance of the Silk Road following the end of the Mongols was one of the main factors that stimulated the Europeans to reach the prosperous Chinese empire through another route, especially by the sea.
伟大的探险家：欧洲抵达亚洲——丝绸之路随着蒙古帝国的灭亡而消失是刺激欧洲人通过另一条路线到达荣繁的中国帝国的一个主要因素，尤其是通过海路。
Silk trade with China had an immense impact on the finance of Roman Empire.
与中国进行丝绸贸易，对罗马帝国的财政产生了极大的冲击和影响。
After the Mongol Empire, the great political powers along the Silk Road became economically and culturally separated.
蒙古帝国以后，丝绸之路上的各个政治强国的经济和文化也分裂了。
During the14th century, with the disintegration of the Mongol empire, the isolationist policies of the Ming dynasty, and the development of the silk route by sea, the silk road was forced into decline.
世纪时，蒙古帝国瓦解、明朝实行闭关政策，加上“海上丝路”的发展，丝绸之路被迫走向没落。
Accordingly, the Silk Road became an important communication route between different parts of the Mongol Empire.
丝绸之路于是成为蒙古帝国各部落间重要的交通线路。
During this time, the Byzantine Empire also wanted to make converging attack on the Persians with others'help for cheaper silk.
此时的拜占庭也希望能够借助其他力量夹击波斯，从而获得廉价丝绸。
Since the Mongolian Empire s conquest of Eurasia in the 13th century brought an unprecedented grand occasion for the cultural interflow between China and foreign countries along the Silk Roads, a sudden change in the evolution of Chinese brick and stone vaulted buildings took place.
汉唐以来的我国砖石拱顶建筑在宋元之交发生了结构上质的变化，元明则是砖石拱顶建筑的发展高峰期，有关其成因及结构嬗变因素一直是中国建筑史上颇有争议的命题。