Silk Road
Why was traveling the Silk Road dangerous for merchants?
What are long distances, harsh weather, difficult terrain, bandits, and other dangers?
The exchange of goods between people or places is called this.
What is trade?
The Crusades were a series of military conflicts connected largely to this.
What is religion?
Where was the Bubonic Plague first found
What is China?
Why would a knight risk injury in a tournament if tournaments were not actual battles?
Tournaments gave knights opportunities to demonstrate their skills, build reputations, win prizes, and gain wealth or fame.
Why did China have an advantage in the silk trade for many years?
What is China had knowledge of how to raise silkworms and make silk, while other societies did not know the process?
What were towns built around water sources in the desert where Silk Road merchants could stop, trade, rest, and get supplies?
What are oasis towns?
The Crusades were largely connected to this belief system.
What is Christianity?
The Bubonic Plague was able to spread quickly because people were constantly moving along trade routes.
What is the Silk Road and other trade routes?
This term comes from a Latin word meaning “middle” and refers to the period between ancient and modern times.
What is medieval?
Traders used the Silk Road to move goods between these three major regions.
What are Asia, Europe, and Africa?
When people are forced or encouraged to leave their home because of war or danger, these are examples of this.
What are push factors?
This city is important to Christians because it is traditionally believed to be the place where Jesus was crucified and resurrected.
What is Jerusalem?
Another name commonly used for the major plague outbreak in medieval Europe is this.
What is the Black Death?
This nickname for the Middle Ages suggests that the period was a time of decline and limited learning.
What are the Dark Ages?
A person who moves from one place to another is taking part in this process.
What is migration?
Who were the people who lived in North America before European colonization and developed many different cultures, languages, and traditions?
Who are Indigenous peoples?
One major goal of many Crusaders was gaining control of this region.
What is the Holy Land?
Why could a successful trade route also become a pathway for disease?
Trade routes connected many people and places. As merchants, travelers, and animals moved, diseases could also move into new regions.
This Germanic group settled in and ruled much of Gaul after the fall of the Western Roman Empire.
Who are the Franks?
A city becomes wealthy because it is located along the Silk Road. Predict one benefit and one challenge this location could create for the city.
The city could benefit from increased trade and cultural exchange, but it could also face challenges such as disease, conflict, or overcrowding.
Why did Indigenous cultures develop differently in different regions of North America?
What is because geography, climate, available resources, and interactions with other groups were different from region to region?
The Crusades involved conflict between groups with different religious beliefs, especially these two groups.
Who are Christians and Muslims?
Explain how the Silk Road could help spread both positive and negative effects between societies.
The Silk Road spread goods, ideas, technology, and culture, but it could also spread diseases because people and animals traveled between regions.
How did the Treaty of Verdun change Charlemagne’s empire?
What is it divided the empire into three kingdoms instead of keeping it under one ruler?