Already in use before our common era and thriving until the opening of the sea route to India at the end of the 15th century C.E., this trade-road network, part of which passed through what is now Uzbekistan, had a central place in world commerce.
Gondzo leri i khale ri tirhisiwa ku fikela loko ku pfuriwa leri yaka eIndia eku heleni ka va 1400 C.E, naswona xiphemu xin'wana xa rona a xi tsemakanya laha sweswi ku vitaniwaka Uzbekistan, laha a ku dume hi swa mabindzu.