SILK ROAD BASICS
Massive trade network linking three continents.
What is the Silk Road?
Dynasty that started major Silk Road expansion.
What is the Han Dynasty?
Tool that improved long-distance navigation.
What is the compass?
Religion that spread from India to East Asia.
What is Buddhism?
City home to the House of Wisdom.
What is Baghdad?
Region the Silk Road connected across.
What is Afro-Eurasia?
Peaceful Roman era that helped trade grow.
What is the Pax Romana?
Chinese invention that transformed warfare.
What is gunpowder?
Religion that spread across the Middle East and Asia.
What is Islam?
Scholars there studied this wide range of subjects.
What is math, science, and medicine?
Item that gave the Silk Road its name.
What is silk?
Empire that united much of Asia and protected merchants.
What is the Mongol Empire?
Invention that spread west and changed writing forever.
What is paper or printing?
Movement of foods, languages, and art along routes.
What is cultural exchange?
European traveler who reached China by land.
Who is Marco Polo?
How long the Silk Road stayed active.
What is over 1,500 years?
Empire that blocked land routes and weakened the Silk Road.
What is the Ottoman Empire?
Heavy-load animals used on desert routes.
What are camels?
Religion that spread through merchants and missionaries.
What is Christianity?
Explorer inspired by Marco Polo’s writings.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
Two major types of routes it included.
What are land and sea routes?
Mongol leader Marco Polo worked under.
Who is Kublai Khan?
Knowledge shared between scholars of different regions.
What are math and astronomy?
Result of travelers bringing home new customs.
What is increased cultural diversity?
Regions whose texts scholars preserved.
What are Greece, Persia, and India?