Trade

Trade - Egypt
Egypt traded many goods and with many countries, I believe that they exported more though. They Exported: The Egyptians didn't rely much on gold (although they were quite rich in gold) for their economy which is also why trade was very important to them, because they traded their goods for money, although they had some Gold they mainly depended on their goods to save their economy. At the Times Egyptians didn't use coins like we do, and what was bought or traded didn't have a fixed value, the people would usually trade and find on their own what the objects/food's (and other things) was.
 * Pottery Vases and Stone Vases
 * Linen
 * Papyrus
 * Gold Vessels
 * Ox Hides
 * Ropes
 * Lentils
 * Dried fish

They traded Gold to the Nubians. They Imported Animals like Horses and Cattles, Silver, some valuable minerals were also imported and some other things and maybe animals that were imported from Syria and Palestine. They also traded with Nubia (south of Nubia) because they were rich in gold and valuable minerals they as well had some animals that they could trade. Nubia was an important country for the Egyptians to trade too. Their routes that they used to get to different countries were separated for example the Northern Route was separated in 2 at a certain point. One Route went to Syria and one to Palestine. The southern route went down to Nubia How ever the best way to travel in Egypt was to go by boat, so they had some other routes you can see on the map that went to northern countries (for Egypt) Trade was so important that it was taught as well as agriculture and some other important skills they the children might need to master when they grow up.

Chinese - Trade
China wasn't a civlization that depended on Trade much, also because at some points in history they barely had enough to eat for themselves and so they didn't want to or really couldn't afford to trade anything but they did trade some gods and those goods are: China traded some of their goods to Greece but also to India they mainly traded silk to India and India traded them Pearls, Glass and some other things like that. They traded to the Phillipines as well because they provided them with food and some minerals too but then the Europeans came and trade between the Phillipines and China became difficult.
 * Salt
 * Iron
 * Fish
 * Cattles
 * Silk
 * Porcelain[[image:Silk%20Road%20Map.jpg width="475" height="318" align="right"]]

The Silk Road
The Silk Road is a road that was used by many countries for trade, and not just China. As you can see it spreads out from China (beggining of the road on the right) to india Persia and europe. It is still used nowadays but the roads aren't exactly the same and it is not known as the silk road anymore. The silk road was named like that because it was thhrough these routes that China had most of their trade going on and their trading markets survived because of their silk reserves. The Silk road was often and is still often used by people, it was the main link for trade that happened between Ancient India and Ancient China, Persia and Ancient China, European countries and China and Mediterranean countries and China.

Even though the Silk Road could have been used and was the main link from China to the countries listed at the end of the paragraph cited above some trade still was made by ships between Eurropean countries and Ancient China.

Conclusion
I believe that the Egyptians were much better than the Chinese at trading because they managed to trade goods all over the world although they mainly traded to the Neighbouring countries while China basically just traded to three countries that weren't all that close to them. Also like I mentioned before at some points during History China couldn't trade much because they barely had enough of what they needed for themselve Overall I believe that the egyptians were better in this domain although my other final belief on this is that the routes that China used were somehow