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What was the unique fabric that was most commonly traded during the Silk Trade?
What is silk?
This basic economic concept, used to trade goods like silk and spices, became widespread due to the Silk Road.
What is bartering?
This Chinese emperor helped start the Silk Road by sending people to make trade deals.
Who is Emperor Wu of Han?
This large physical feature, spanning from China to Eastern Europe, helped shape Silk Road land routes by forcing caravans to go around it.
What is the Gobi Desert?
This person gets called out by Mrs. Nelson for playing Candy Crush.
What is Jaisal Singh?
What spices were traded from Sri Lanka and China and exported along to the Silk Road to the Arabian Peninsula and Iranian Plateau?
What is cinnamon and cassia?
This economic system, where merchants invested in trade ventures for profit, began to emerge along the Silk Road and influenced modern capitalism.
What is early capitalism or proto-capitalism?
This leader from Mongolia made the Silk Road safer for travelers and traders.
Who is Genghis Khan?
The Silk Road’s development led to the expansion of these overland travel paths that passed through mountain ranges such as the Tien Shan and the Hindu Kush.
What are caravan routes?
These two people love Ethel Cain.
What is Frankie Kincade and Owen Spencer?
What commodities did the Han Dynasty/China produce that were most commonly traded by the East and the West?
What is paper and gunpowder?
This financial invention, introduced by Chinese merchants to avoid carrying large sums of money, was an early version of modern banking.
What is paper money or promissory notes?
He was Genghis Khan’s grandson and helped trade grow by keeping the Silk Road peaceful.
Who is Kublai Khan?
This city, now in modern-day Turkey, became a key Silk Road terminus and flourished as a cultural and commercial bridge between Asia and Europe.
What is Constantinople?
These two people play scrabble all class during ISSB?
What is Kai Bjordahl and Max Park Taber?
What ceramic material that China produced was exported to European countries?
What is porcelain?
The Silk Road encouraged the use of this system, which set a common value for different currencies to aid international trade
What is currency exchange?.
This leader from the Muslim world helped science and trade grow during the Silk Road time
Who is Harun al-Rashid?
The Silk Road facilitated the spread of agriculture, which led to the transformation of ecosystems in Central Asia through the introduction of these two non-native crops from South Asia and the Middle East.
What are rice and cotton?
These three inventors always have AirPods in and are on their phones during ISSB.
What is Neil Mehta, Sotala Yoseph, Avi Kutuva
This syncretic belief system, blending elements of Zoroastrianism, Christianity, and Buddhism, spread from Persia into China via the Silk Road before being suppressed during the Tang Dynasty.
What is Manichaeism?
This economic effect of the Silk Road still shapes today’s global markets by encouraging the transfer of goods, ideas, and labor across continents.
What is globalization?
This ruler from the Eastern Roman Empire helped keep trade going with Europe.
Who is Justinian the First?
The long-term operation of the Silk Road altered settlement patterns by encouraging permanent urban centers in these often sparsely populated ecological zones that acted as natural corridors for trade.
What are arid steppe and desert regions?
Who said this? “we love squirting on our homies.”
What is Steph Nel?