Trade
People of "___" status usually bought and traded silk.
What is royal?
The main form of transportation due to banditry and harsh terrain.
What is caravans?
The civilization primarily traded with comprising the "first age" of the silk road.
What is the Roman empire?
The continent that used the silk road to trade with western parts of the world
The piece of paper used to reserve stays at inns, after paper being traded throughout the west?
What is a passport?
The rename historians joked about due to a certain other resource being traded before silk
What is "the jade road"?
The expansion of this empire (under Genghis Khan) spread disease yet protection across each route of the silk road.
What is the Mongol empire?
The Chinese dynasty that established the silk road.
What is the Han dynasty?
The desert known for its brutal weather which was the primary problem for traveling caravans.
What is the gobi desert?
The major religion that spread eastward which especially influenced Central asia.
What is Buddhism?
The animal known as the ship of the desert
What are camals?
A series of wars between Christians and Muslims that caused trade between Europe and Islam to flourish
What is the crusades?
The 19th century term named and popularized by Ferdinand von Richthofen.
What is the silk road?
The river located in Pakistan that became the marking of the crossroads between routes.
What is the Indus river?
The mass spread of this disease lead to the deaths of tens of millions of lives via the silk road.
What is the black death?
The resource the ottoman empire attempted to amass that lead to the closure of the silk road.
What is gunpowder?
The war(s) that caused the silk road to shut down temporarily and eventually lead to the fall of Persia.
What is the Roman-Persian wars?
The civilization that was hinted to have stole silkworms to be able to create it themselves
What is the Byzantine empire?
The name of the region located in the eastern Mediterranean, acting as a switching point for goods.
What is levant?
The spread of these technologies—first developed in China—revolutionized warfare in the Islamic world and later in Europe after traveling along Silk Road routes.
What is gunpowder weapons?
The valuable Roman resource that revolutionized Asia.
The first major plague to have spread from Asia to Europe via the silk road. (541 ad)
What is the Justinianic Plague?
The year in which the silk road became a world heritage site.
What is 2014?
The mountain range that allowed traders to reach central asia
The Tian Shan Mountains?
The name of the concept of cultures producing specific goods to trade with other cultures that don't have those resources.
What is economic interdependence?