The Silk Roads

The Silk Roads

Multiple Choice

Which of the following factors hindered early connections between early river valley civilizations?

• Lack of technological innovation

• Physical geography and fear of the unknown

• Overreliance on agricultural production

• Political restrictions on trade

Multiple Choice

What role did nomadic people play in the establishment of the Silk Road trade?

• Nomadic people stopped trade from occurring along the Silk Roads

• Nomadic tribes played no significant role in the development of trade

• Nomadic people became dependent on the Silk Roads for their survival

• Nomadic tribes established some of the earliest trade along what would become the Silk Roads

Multiple Choice

The conquests of which Greek leader led to the expansion of the Silk Road?

• Darius I

• Zhang Qian

• Alexander the Great

• Pericles

Multiple Choice

What religion makes it way from India along Silk Roads to China?

• Islam

• Buddhism

• Sikhism

• Hinduism

Multiple Choice

The diffusion of maritime technology, like the magnetic compass, led to which effect?

• The dawn of the Age of Exploration and the seeking of alternative trade routes to Asia

• The establishment of more extensive overland trade routes

• The immediate end of all trade in the Asia

• The strengthening of Silk Road trade routes

Open Ended

What role did the physical geography of Eurasia play in the establishment of Silk Road trade routes?

Open Ended

Silk Road trade led to global exchange and cultural blending to create new cultural elements. Can you think of a specific example of how the modern world economy has led to similar effects?

Open Ended

f the Silk Road wasn’t a road, what was it and why was it called the Silk Road?

Open Ended

What were some of the other major goods traded along the Silk Road and where were they from?

Multiple Choice

Historians believed that the exchange of ideas had no effect on world history.

• A. True
• B. False

Multiple Choice

The Silk Road crossed___________

• A. North and South America
• B. Europe, South America, and Africa
• C. Asia, Europe, and Antarctica
• D. Africa, Europe, and Asia

Multiple Choice

Religion was spread on the Silk Road.

• False

• True

Multiple Choice

What disease began on the Silk Road that devastated parts of the world?

• Chicken Pox
• Flu
• Dehydration 
• Bubonic Plague (Black Plague)

Multiple Choice

The Silk Road was what?

• One road that was the color of silk.

• A network of roads used for trading.

• A road that only silk was traded on.

• The name of the first road in Asia.

Multiple Choice

The Silk Road was what?

• One road that was the color of silk.

• A network of roads used for trading.

• A road that only silk was traded on.

• The name of the first road in Asia.