SILK ROAD BASICS
This is the main reason the Silk Road got its name.
What is Chinese silk being the most valuable traded item?
He traveled west and discovered the “heavenly horses.”
Who is Zhang Qian?
This animal was the key to crossing deserts with heavy loads.
What is the camel?
This major religion spread from India to China through the Silk Road.
What is Buddhism?
This deadly disease traveled across the Silk Road and killed millions in Europe.
What is the Black Death?
This describes the true structure of the Silk Road—not just one road.
What is a network of many trade routes?
This Chinese dynasty expanded power and made trade safer.
What is the Han Dynasty?
These winds guided sailors across the Indian Ocean.
What are monsoon winds?
Knowledge in math, medicine, science, and translation grew in this Islamic city.
What is Baghdad?
The Black Death reduced populations by this percentage in many areas.
What is one-third to one-half?
This region connected Europe, Asia, and Africa through trade.
What is Afro-Eurasia?
This long period of Roman peace helped increase trade.
This item was so valuable that Rome once tried to ban men from wearing it.
This technology spread from China and later changed Europe’s warfare.
What is gunpowder?
This empire blocking trade with Europe helped end the Silk Road.
What is the Ottoman Empire?
This geographic challenge made travel dangerous and required caravans.
What is crossing dangerous deserts and mountains?
This empire united most of Asia and protected the Silk Road.
What is the Mongol Empire?
This was the main reason no single person traveled the entire Silk Road.
What are extremely long distances and dangerous conditions?
Paper and printing traveled from this country to the Middle East and Europe.
What is China?
Europe began to use these routes instead of land routes, causing the Silk Road to decline.
What are ocean/sea routes?
This is how long the Silk Road lasted.
What is more than 1,500 years?
This European traveler worked for Kublai Khan and later inspired explorers.
Who is Marco Polo?
These people acted as middlemen, moving goods from one region to another.
Who are traders and merchants?
Scholars worked in this famous center of learning in Baghdad.
What is the House of Wisdom?
The Black Death weakened trade because people were afraid of doing this.
What is traveling or moving between cities?