Many Chinese merchants traveled only as far as Dunhuang on the Silk Road. Can you give 2 reasons why?

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Many Chinese merchants traveled only as far as Dunhuang on the Silk Road, basically for the following two reasons. 1) During those years, Dunhuang becomes an important hub place for trade in the Silk Road, where people met to commerce all kinds of products. 2) Dunhuang in the middle of some crossing paths. Indeed it was the intersection of the central, north, and south silk routes. That is why Dunhuang represented a strategic place with so many logistic operations in the Taklamakan Desert, in the northwest of China.

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