Regions of the Silk Road
What Country did Silk come from?
China
What are the two best numbers in the game after 7?
6 and 8
Name one hazard of traveling the Silk road?
Answers will vary
The Silk road is one large road? True or False
False - it is many connected roads
What is Silk?
What was the furthest most Continent in the West that traded along the Silk Road?
Europe
Name the two ways to trade in the game
another person
trade with the bank
What animal did merchants used mostly to travel the Silk Road?
Camels
Name two things that are traded today and brought into thailand?
answers may vary
What are Settlements?
Small communities that grew along the Silk Road leading to many cities being created
What countries or Regions came up with Algebra?
Middle East (Iraq)
Name two diffrent kinds of cards that the resource cards (white cards ) can give you?
Army card
Monopoly card
Victory Point
Road building card
What do you call a group of men who can steal or rob you in the desert?
Bandits
Many people still travel over land to trade large goods? True or False
They use the ocean
What is Porcelain?
a thin, beautiful pottery invented in China that was traded on the Silk Road
What country conquered most of the middle East and all of Asia. This empire would make traveling the Silk road after easier to connect?
Mongol Empire/ Genghis Khan
What resources do you need to build 1 settlement and 1 city?
settlement = 1 wood 1brick 1sheep 1wheat
City = 3 rock and 2 wheat
What kind of natural disaster can harm you in the desert causing people to take cover?
Sand Storms
Name one famous canal in the world today?
Suez Canal
Panama Canal
What is Cultural Diffusion?
spreading of one idea to another
Who was the famous merchant from Italy that met with people in the East brining back new goods and items?
Marco Polo
Name 2 ways in which Settlers of Catan relates to the silk road. Give examples
Trading
Strategy - Where to place settlements
Cultural exchange and development - alliances, enemies.
Name three reasons on way camels are the best form of Transportation in the Desert?
Eyelids protest sand
Hooves - easy to travel on sand
Water - can drink enough water for 1 week
Carry items - have a good carry capacity
What are two cities today that are considered Modern day trading cities?
Shanghai
Singapore
Los Angeles
Tokyo
Istanbul
Caravanserais
inns offering lodging for caravan merchants as well as food, water, and care for their animals