Which is more important? silk road or spice trade route?

Ships can transport stuff way more efficiently. Its not like they work independently of each other though.

>>2479457
The Spice route looks like Horseniggers won't bother your goods, so that one.

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>>2479496
>Be safe from Steppenegro threat.
>Run the piracy gauntlet that is the Philippines, Borneo, Malacca Straits, Southern India, Somalia, and Oman instead.
At least in the Silk Road, you're only in danger in Central Asia.

The Spice route will literally run you through 4 areas of piracy.

>>2479457
Total goods? Sea of course

Importance to history? Hard to say.

>>2479496
the malaccan straits is chock full of pirates

theres still news about pirates attacking cargo ship there last year

>>2479590
Modern piracy is a political problem only. Western militaries could end it with extensive application of violence, but wankstains like the UNHRW would be on your ass

>>2479513
But back in the day the spice traders were also the pirates

>>2479634
This so much

Hey, I know that it may sound vague but im a newbie in history, do you know any good books about silk road? Not too eurocentric if thats possible...

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>>2479457
They were both important. What's more important is the throttling they both got after the Turks took over the eastern Mediterranean and the fact that the genoese got completely shut out of the western part of the trade by Venice.

>>2479457
How do you mean? In terms of goods moved, or ideas spread, because the overland route, given its much more frequent stops, allowing for interaction and exchange, as well as the multiple cultures it passed through rather than passed by, allowed for a much greater spread of culture and technology than the sea route.

>>2479634
Military Powers DO police piracy...

...except they do it in fucking Somalia where the world's most incompetent pirates live and not in Southeast Asia, where the real problem cases are.

Indian Ocean trade was about way more than that. Like when the Mongols took over China, Europe benefited greatly from taking over this trade.

The spice trade alone was maybe equivalent to the silk trade.

>>2479743

Invading Somalia is no big deal.

Invading Indonesia is a big deal.

>>2479917
Truthfully Indonesia isn't powerful and nobody cares about it.

>>2479457
Both are quite important but I think spice road is more so due to the extra volume of it overall.

Silk trade had great cultural movements and some decent material transports, but not quite as much as spice trade.Spice trade included both cultural and material exchange of great magnitude

>>2480429
Beating the Indonesian military would be no problem. Policing 250 Million of a hostile Muslim populace scattered on 20.000 islands is.

>>2480559
America has an individual freedom bomb for each individual.