Silk Road Basics
What was the Silk Road mainly used for?
What is trade and cultural exchange?
What smooth, shiny fabric gave the Silk Road its name?
What is silk?
What was the name of the Persian trade route that spanned over 1,500 miles?
What is the Royal Road?
What religion spread from India to China via the Silk Road?
What is Buddhism?
What was a popular Roman drink often traded across the empire?
What is wine?
Which two continents did the Silk Road connect?
What are Asia and Europe?
What kind of food seasoning was highly valued along the Silk Road?
What are spices?
Which sea was essential to Roman trade?
What is the Mediterranean Sea?
What can you call the sharing of language, religion, and customs between civilizations?
What is cultural exchange?
What type of oil used for cooking and lamps was traded by the Romans?
What is olive oil?
What was the name of a major Chinese city at the eastern end of the Silk Road?
What is Chang’an?
Which valuable metals were often traded from the West to the East?
What are gold and silver?
What allowed traders to transport goods faster across the Roman Empire?
What are paved roads and sea routes?
What art forms might have traveled along with traders on the Silk Road?
What are sculptures, painting, or music?
What type of money helped the Romans trade easily across the empire?
What is the denarius?
What civilization used the Northern and Southern Routes of the Silk Road?
What is China?
What grain product was a major Roman export?
What is grain?
Which empire acted as a bridge between India and China?
What is the Kushan Empire?
How did trade affect the cultures of the people involved?
What is it helped them learn from each other and blend ideas?
What made Roman trade so successful?
What is good access to sea routes?
What was one reason the Silk Road was important besides trade?
What is sharing ideas, religion, or technology?
Which two empires traded cotton textiles?
What are the Roman and Kushan Empires?
What made the Royal Road useful for both trade and government communication?
What is its efficiency and length?
Which empire’s art and religious ideas blended with Indian and Greek styles?
What is the Kushan Empire?
Name one region connected to Roman trade routes.
What is North Africa / Asia / Europe?