Geography
The 3 continents connected by the Silk Road.
What are Africa, Asia and Europe?
The most precious export of China.
What is silk?
The name of the most common pack animal people used to cross deserts with supplies.
What is a camel?
Revealing the process for making this most precious export of China was punishable by death.
What was silk?
Belief systems that spread along the Silk Road.
What is religion?
The longest mountain chain in Asia.
What are the Himalayas?
Cinnamon and ginger are 2 examples of the valued commodity.
What are spices?
While being a source of water, these elevated landforms presented a natural barrier to travelers.
What are mountains?
This good replaced papyrus and tablets as a writing material.
What is paper?
Method of human communication.
What is language?
The fertile area surrounding the Yellow River in which early Chinese settled.
What is the Yellow River Valley?
Animal used in travel, hunting and war traded on the Silk Road.
What is a horse?
A barren area with very little precipitation.
What is a desert?
This invention is still in use today and can be found in many sheds and garages.
What is a wheelbarrow?
Vocal or instrumental sounds.
What is music?
The body of water to the south of China.
What is the South China Sea?
Roman coins were made from this.
What is gold?
Some Silk Road travelers took armed guards on their journey to protect against these.
What are bandits?
A chemical explosive.
What is gunpowder?
The expression of human imagination.
What is art?
The northernmost desert in China.
What is the Gobi Desert?
A blue pigment from Persia.
What is cobalt?
Without access to appropriate shelter, this characteristic of China presented challenges and danger to travelers.
What is extreme weather?
Invented around 1100 AD, this invention was most valuable to those at sea. An early form of GPS.
What was the compass?
What are values?