Completar frases Chang'an - Tian-Shan Corridor Fill in the BlanksVersión en línea Fill in the blanks with key words from the Chang'an - Tian-Shan Corridor text in this educational game. por Bakyt Toktasyn 1 Almaty Dynasty weapons Shan 5 World gunpowder 154 Han 400 7 UNESCO Chang'an 2014 Xian Ornek 000 Tian Heritage List Talgar Taklamakan mirrors Aktobe Kazakhstan Desert Mountains The Chang'an - Tian - Shan Corridor was a , - kilometre - long stretch of the Silk Road that ran through Kazakhstan . In , it became the first section of the Silk Road to be included on the . The route began in ( modern - day ) , the capital city of the . It looped around the top of the and went through the - and on into the steppe of . In places , travellers were metres below sea level , in other parts they passed mountains , metres above ! They followed the route past the ancient settlements of , , Kulan and , eventually reaching . From here , they could follow the next section of the Silk Road towards Europe . The reason people travelled along the Chang'an - Tian - Shan Corridor was to trade goods : merchants from the East exchanged silk , spices , porcelain and for cotton , wool , silver and from the West . People also traded salt , sugar , precious stones , and horses . But perhaps the greatest legacy of the Chang'an - Tian - Shan Corridor wasn't the material goods that passed along it , but the ideas . Hundreds of years before international flights , mass media and the Internet , globalisation began with the Silk Road , and it was the Chang'an - Tian - Shan Corridor through Kazakhstan that was one of the major links between East and West .