Who benefited the most by the silk road

The Chinese economy benefitted immensely from the silk road trade. European merchants also benefitted by obtaining luxurious Chinese handcrafted goods such as silk and porcelain.  

The native americans, spanish, french and americans all name places in our state. the word “arkansas” came from the quapaw indians, by way of early french explorers. at the time of the early french exploration, a tribe of indians, the quapaws, lived west of the mississippi and north of the arkansas river.