Basics
What is the name of the network of land and sea routes that connected Asia, Africa, and Europe for trade?
The Silk Roads
Name the luxury fabric that the trade routes were named after.
Silk
Explorers/travelers
It made them wealthy.
Name the two types of routes that made up the Silk Roads.
Land and sea
Name the popular drink that was traded along the Silk Roads
Tea
Name the type of people who traded goods, set prices, and organized caravans along the Silk Roads.
Merchants/traders
What is specialization?
Focusing on producing a small number of specific items.
Name the two types of animals that people used to cross deserts and carry goods.
Camels and horses
Name the type of people who were skilled workers who produced goods to trade and local markets along the routes.
Craftspeople/artisans
Name the 3 continents that the Silk Roads connected.
Asia, Africa, and Europe
Name 2 examples of cultural exchange that occurred along the Silk Roads.
Art
Music
Food
Clothing
Buddhism
Islam
Name 3 things that could stop trade along the Silk Roads.
Wars
Closed borders
Political changes
Name 3 general categories of things that moved along the Silk Roads.
People
Items
Ideas
Name the major technological invention that originated in China that changed record keeping and schooling.
Papermaking
Name 2 general types of knowledge that spread along the Silk Roads.
Scientific
Medical
Religious
Technological
Name 4 types of dangers that existed for people who used the Silk Roads.
Terrain
Weather
Bandits
Disease