why was the journey along the silk road difficult? what geographic features added to the difficulty

It was hard to conquer, mainly because of the long distance and difficult terrains. On the way, the major landforms are deserts, gobi, grassland with swamp and snow mountains.

The journey along the silk road was difficult because there was bandits and the geographic features did add to the difficulty from mountains, hills, and rivers.

The journey along the silk route was difficult because there were natural barriers, which weren't easy to pass through, there would possibly be bandits, and it was a long distance. Some of these natural barriers are deserts and mountains.

there were rugged mountains along much of the journey, including the Tian Shan and the kunlun shan

Most of the silk went over land on the raid and it also had high snowy moutains vast deserts long regions of rocky land as well as rivers and long plains to cross

Travelling on silk road was difficult for several reasons. Robbers could attack.The land on the silk could be dangerous. Mountains and desserts were not easy to cross in wagons.Travellers also had to think about bad weathers,illnesses, limited food and water.It was hard and long journey