Silk Road Vocab
This animal was often used on the Silk Road for its "fuel efficiency" in desert climates.
Mr. Murray's favorite dessert is Baklava.
What are camels?
This is the former name of the Buddha.
What is Siddhartha?
This is something that happened along the Silk Road that was good.
What was tRaDe?! What was the cultural exchange of ideas? What was the spread of religion. education, etc.?
These are two reasons why the Silk Roads were dangerous for travelers.
What is dangerous climate, temperatures, bad roads, bandits, thieves, your uncle's cooking you took with you, dangerous mountains, deserts, etc.?
These are the two classes Mr. Murray is teaching this year (precise terms matter here, you ain't getting credit unless you list what it says in Aspen!)
What is, World History 1 and Introduction to Personal Finance?
This is the group of people who often traveled the Steppes on animals such as horses to feed their livestock in seasonal cycles.
What were Pastoral Nomads?
Stone Temple Pilots? Pavement? Sonic Youth? Guided by Voices? The Pixies? These are all 90s bands, but one arguably towered above the rest in popularity.
Oh, and this is also the term for breaking the cycle of reincarnation and suffering in Buddhism.
100 bonus points for ANY team that can list 3 (school appropriate) song titles from this band in your response.
What is Nirvana?
This is a mathematical concept that was spread from the Indian continent during the Silk Road.
Hint: Every hero starts as...
What was the concept of zero?
This is what Pastoral Nomads forced some travelers on the Silk Road to pay in exchange for not taking all their stuff and sending them home to their families in many pieces...
What are tributes?
Mr. Murray has only been responsible for this animal as a pet in his lifetime.
Hint, its a super low maintenance animal.
What is a fishie?
The name for a silk road rest stop.
100 extra points if you can connect this back to the spread of Buddhism.
What is a caravanserai?
Bonus: Monasteries nearby would house merchants and share ideas about Buddhism with them.
List at least 5 "Right's" from the Eightfold Path:
What is: Right View, Right Intention, Right Speech, Right Action, Right Livelihood, Right Effort, Right Mindfulness, and Right Concentration.
This is what Romans would use silk from China for. Think a little deeper about what it represented for them for credit!
For wealth, silk was worn by senators to represent wealth and luxury and in some cases, it was seen as even inappropriate.
Pastoral Nomads often did what to get resources from settler societies that would no longer trade with them.
What is raid or attack them.
Not a Mr. Murray question. HA. This is the name of one of the two modern day nations at either end of the Silk Road around 100 BCE.
What is Italy or China?
Name at least three goods that were traded along this Silk Road.
What were silk, gold, camels, jade, books, textiles, carpets, tapestries, cloth, weapons, etc.?
These were the four experiences Siddhartha had that caused him to become an ascetic.
What were the the sick man, the old man, the dead man, and the ascetic man?
This is one major reason that Buddhism spread along the silk road.
What is Buddhist monks hosting travelers at caravanserai's and spreading their ideas to the travelers they would invite to stay with them?
Not really a negative but this is possibly a reason for why Chinese goods like Silk were so expensive by the time they reached far away places like Rome.
Hint: its all about the middlemen.
What is, the cost of goods going up as each trader buys and sells their goods to the next trader on the road, thus raising the cost to make a profit off their previous purchases?
Basically, I'm not going to travel through the desert there and back just to sell my goods for the same price I bought them for.
This is the name of one of the five senses that Mr. Murray does not have access to.
What is smell?
This is the item that the Romans had to ban from trading with Silk Road merchants for fear of it losing its value and running out of its supply.
What is gold?
This one is kind of a toss up for big money but Mr. Murray is feeling reckless in his suit today...These were the two extremes that the Buddha advised his followers to walk the "Middle Way" between.
What were extreme indulgence or desire and extreme asceticism or denial?
This is a positive of contact between pastoral nomads and merchants on the silk road.
What was pastoral nomads being able to guide or provide guidance on how to travel the silk road and create new paths for merchants to utilize?
This is the explanation for how The Black Plague initially spread from the Central Asian Steppes to its new mobile hosts of camels and humans.
What is...the fleas' rodent carrier population died due to climate changes and forced the fleas carrying Yersinia Pestias to jump to new hosts for survival?
Something like this will do.
Mr. Murray has this many brothers.
Hint, lose the goose eggs.
What is 5?