The Opening of the Silk Road
True or False: The Silk Road was one continuous single road.
False: It was a network of various trade routes.
______ was the central trading point at which the Eastern Silk Road and the Western Silk Road met.
Kashgar
The trade between East and West along the Silk Road created ________ _________, in which ideas and knowledge—as well as goods—spread from one culture to another.
Cultural Diffusion
Students were allowed to move to only one trading center at a time.
Traders had to travel long distances and then rest for days or weeks.
How did the Han open up the Silk Road?
By defeating the nomadic people to the north.
What two deserts did people travel by on the Eastern Silk Road?
The Taklimakan Desert and the Gobi Desert
On the western Silk Road, travelers use ____ instead of camels.
yaks
True or False: In time, China and Rome learned how to make glass and silk instead of trading for it.
True
Students had to crawl, cover their eyes, climb over desks, and hop over pictures.
Traders faced many dangers such as bandits, desert sandstorms, mountains, and threats from animals.
What were three things Zhang Qian brought back to China from his travels on the Silk Road?
Powerful horses, grapes, and cultural knowledge
From Dunhuang, travelers could choose either a northern or a southern route across the Taklimakan Desert to Kashgar. Why did many choose the northern route?
the distances between oases like Loulan and Kucha were shorter.
After goods reached Antioch, where were goods transported?
Across the Mediterranean to Rome
Students started with one type of trading token and traded for others.
Products from different cultures were traded along the Silk Road.
What was China's most valuable trade good?
Silk
Name three dangers along the Eastern Silk Road.
Bandits, sandstorms, mirages
What were 2 dangers on the Western Silk Road?
Difficult passes and lack of oxygen from high mountains, animals, insects
Why did the Roman Emperor forbid men from wearing Silk?
He wanted to reduce the amount of gold lost to his empire from purchasing silk
Most students did not travel to all trading centers.
Traders used local trade routes rather than using the entire Silk Road.
Why was Silk China's most valuable trade good?
The Chinese were the only people who knew how to produce Silk.
Give 3 examples of goods traded along the Eastern Silk Road.
silk, dishware, jewelry, cast-iron products , decorative boxes, horses, jade, furs, gold, cotton, spices, pearls, and ivory.
What important cultural idea or belief was spread from India throughout the rest of Asia?
Buddhism
Students learned greetings in 5 different languages.
Ideas, cultures, and religion spread along the Silk Road