Vocabulary
This is a strong but soft fiber, that can be produced using a specific type of worm.
What is silk?
These people attacked and made it dangerous to travel the Silk Road.
Who are robbers / thieves?
These animals were often used to travel along with caravans along the Silk Road.
What are camels?
This city was swallowed by a sand storm and lost in the desert.
What is Loulan.
It took this many years for Marco Polo to travel the Silk Road the first time with his father.
What is 4 years?
This is a fertile spot in the desert where water is found.
What is an oasis?
This dynasty ruled during the Silk Road.
What is the Han Dynasty?
This animal can pull carts for long distances.
What are donkeys?
This area stretches about 500,000 miles from northern China to southern Mongolia.
What is the Gobi Desert?
Marco Polo met this famous ruler in China and worked for him.
Who is Kublai Khan?
This was invented in ancient China and is fired at a very high temperature to produce the finished product.
What is porcelain?
This helped travelers navigate and maintain a direction to not get lost on the Silk Road.
What is a compass?
This insect produced silk in ancient China.
What is the silkworm?
This city is known for its beauty, especially a beautiful tower.
What is Bukhara?
Marco Polo was this age when he met his father for the first time.
What is 15 years old?
These goods were transported along a watery trade route.
What are spices?
Name the continents the Silk Road connected.
What are Asia, Africa and Europe?
The silkworm eats this before it spins a cocoon.
What are mulberry leaves?
This is the largest basin in the world.
What is the Tarim Basin?
Marco Polo became a gentleman commander of this city when war broke out in Italy.
What is Venice?
This is a group of people/traders traveling together along the Silk Road.
What is a caravan?
The Silk Road was about this many miles long.
What is 4,000 miles?
This type of camel has only one hump.
What is a dromedary camel?
A traveler could get altitude sickness here.
What are the Pamir Mountains?
This is where Marco Polo wrote his book with Rustichello.
What is jail?