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Exotic food exchange in the second millennium BCE Updated: Updated: Trade flourished long before the Silk Routes were established Share Article AAA Ancient commerce: Trade and cultural ties took place between the East and the West even in the Bronze Age .   | Photo Credit: Asela Don Trade flourished long before the Silk Routes were established We are familiar with the ‘Silk Route’ that connects Chinese and Central Asian regions with Southern Asian and West Asian regions of the world and how trade between these regions had started over 4,000 years ago, or the second millennium BCE. It was then that the King of Babylon (the region near the Euphrates River) Hammurabi ruled and had strict moral laws for his subjects. In this connection, the remarkable and ‘must read’ book ‘The Silk Roads: A New History of the World’, written by Peter Frankopan mentions how even before that time, trade and cultural ties were going on between the East and the West in the Bronze Age

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