the opening of the silk road affected china as of 1)economically it helped china in trading with the west, east and also Europe, this gave china a market to sell goods and it made money off of trade, china's goods were very valuable which meant traders got a bigger profit, meaning more money. 2) culturally it introduced more cultures and ways to celebrate and communicate to what they called their GOD and also during a rough time for china Buddhism was introduced which helped with the Chinese relieve their stress of what may have happened recently. 3) socially more languages were introduced to people new ways to communicate new ways to write/draw etc.we introduced to people near the silk road the Chinese were confused as the Europeans b/c they were all hearing these weird words that didn't make sense to them because they were never exposed to different ways to communicate
