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What is the difference between demand and supply?
What is Buyer, who is the consumer, they demand goods and services, the seller is the producer, who supply them
Describe the Taklamakan desert? 3 things at least
What is 10-38mm of precipitation per year, -30-38 degrees Celsius, 1000km long, 400km wide, plant life scarce, shifting sands, frequent sandstorms….
Why do you think the saddle, stirrup, chariot and wagon were adopted by people living along the edge of the Steppe?
What is a swiftly attack and raiding of caravans going along the silk route, they were a feared fighting force
What do historians and archaeologists do?
What is use evidence to study ancient people, analyze sources to infer any possible evidence, check against other sources, justify a conclusion
What did Hannah build for the Christmas Market?
Wooden Coasters and wood ornaments
What did the Mayan civilization trade?
What is gold, copper, tools, jade, shells, honey and cocoa beans
What is desertification? What factors cause it?
What is the process of productive land becoming drier until it turns into a desert, natural factors are winds and little rain, human factors are cutting down forests and overgrazing cattle
What were horses seen as and why?
What are Prestige and military might, symbol of speed, strength, and beauty
What are the two important items the first peoples traded? Describe each item.
What is Obsidian: black volcanic rock that can be shaped into sharp edges. And Dentalium: mollusk shells used for money and decoration
Who left the class at Spring Break?
MacKenzie
What is the silk road?
What are Maritime routes that linked East and West together by sea, these roads are considered the largest trade network of the ancient world, spanning three continents and 7000 kilometers
What was dangerous about the Taklamakan desert? List at least 2
What are Bandits, weather condition, high altitude, narrow passes…
What four major powers came together to expand trade?
What are the Han dynasty, Kushan empire, Parthian empire and Roman empire
Why did surgeons use Obsidian knives?
What is they are fine cutting edge and promotes faster healing
Where did the the class go in the Boys & Girls Bus in February?
Ice skating at the Shipyards
Why was silk so special?
What is Silkworm, which can spin 1000 meters of silk thread, it is soft but strong, does not weaken when wet and can be dyed brilliant colours. Chinese people were the only ones who knew how to produce silk. They controlled the silk production.
What is an oasis?
What is an Island of green growth around a spring or other water source in a desert
What were the Kushan empires influences?
What is being known for bringing Chinese silk to Rome, they helped spread Buddhism from India to Central Asia
Trade patterns were re-created using obsidian, how?
What are they compared the chemical composition of obsidian, shows evidence of how First Peoples moved, traded and interacted across North America
Who turned 13 in January? (3 people)
Shivani, Bailey, Jonathan
Who discovered silk?
Who is Empress Lei-Tsu, around 2640 BCE
What is Kashgar?
What is the location at the foot of Pamir mountains, last oasis on the silk road, a market were people bought supplies, cultures came together
What were the influences of the Roman empire?
What are making advances in science and technology, and easy travel throughout the empire
What did the Han dynasty develop? How long did it last for? What did they do?
What is a Political system and social structure that endured for almost 2000 years, built a network of roads across the empire, eventually be part of the silk road, new method for making steel and ceramics, advances in medicine and mathematics, process of making paper refined
What was the last sport Cap U was teaching you?
Badminton