Kashgar in The Silk Road                 In the ancient civilization, there are thousands of cities owned by different administrators. The trade between nearly two cities was control by the biggest merchant of this city. The relationship between two cities or countries far away from each other is not important, because it cost too much to travel to make trade worth it. So some people that is ordered by king of city found out a way that connected east and west. At that time this new connection between the east and west had been started because for the first time people traded with technology, language, products, culture, and religion from eastern country to western country. This important connection called The Silk Road started around 1BCE and connects the commercial trade routes between Asia, Africa and Europe. Between these three main lands, there are many desert, like Taklimakan desert, so people who wanted to go across them must travel by “the ship in desert”—camel. At that times, some poor people became robbers to rob merchants who travel in desert without guards. However, there are many dangerous to make trade between two countries, but reward that trade successfully will attract many people to make the trade. Furthermore, the legacy of the Silk Road is the important way to share the products and ideas to other countries.One of the most important city on the Silk Road where ideas from called Kashgar. Kashgar became important because of its location and religion. Kashgar is the last city in the Silk Road before passing thought out of ancient China. Kashgar is at the western Uygur Autonomous Region of Xinjiang. Kashgar is surrounded by mountains on three sides and on side open. There is Tianshan veins lying at north, west of the stands, the south is the Karakorum Mountains and to the eastern part is Taklimakan desert. Kashgar is the last oasis that travel in to desert, so Silk Road that started from other countries also need to travel to Kashgar. Because of many traders always stayed at Kashgar, so Kashgar became a center of traders to resupply. Traders also buy or sell some products to increase proceeds or lessen weight of goods for pass deserts easier. So after a long time, Kashgar became a trade center. Kashgar has some products that other places don’t have like watermelon or grapes. These kind of products became famous because these fruits are much sweeter than the other places’.Besides its excellent location, it also has some complicate religions. At the ancient times, Kashgar is the intersection of many countries with different cultures and empires. Mostly, Kashgar had been under the rule of China, Turkic, Mongol, Persian and Tibetan empires. So many different thought from different countries had been blended together. By the way, the most influential is Islam. If you can travel to Kashgar today, you can see lots of Islam’s custom that people still use it. If you come outside at noon, you can see many people do the worship to the sun and say ANLA when they are getting down.Since the long distance of the Silk Road, some goods that not easy to keep fresh or hard to carry was reduced. So the goods that easy to handle was become more and more famous. One of the most valuable products is spices. From the beginning, the spice that plays an important role. In ancient times, spices can be used for witchcraft ceremony, spell, purification, anti corrosion, makeup, perfume, treatment, and even poison. Also can be used for cooking, food storage and seasoning. In the "Bible" era,dear brother Joseph had been already sold to spice merchants slave records. "The Bible," Song of Solomon, will be his lover to several kinds of spices. Thus, the spice trade along the long in history.
            Among these spices, Black pepper trade peaked in Rome Empire. In the ancient Latin retained cookery book pepper appeared 349 times in all 468 formulations.  After the collapse of the West Rome Empire, the pepper trade is still preserved, and in the recovery continues with luxury and civilization since ancient times. Because of Silk Road, pepper become more and more common, but it also become more expensive. The famous place to grow paper is India. India is faraway from Europe and Asia, so the cost of pepper is very expensive.