The Silk Road

The Silk Road was actually a/an 

• road made of silk
• network of trade routes across Asia
• a sea route between Africa and India
• trail used only by silk merchants

Merchants on the Silk Road usually

• traveled the entire length of the trade route
• were killed before they reached their destination
• only sold silk
• traveled one part of the trade route and sold their goods 

Merchants on the Silk Road traded

• only silk
• silk and other products such as spices, olives, and ivory.
• traded silk and polyester 
• silk worms for gold

Silk was produced

• only in China
• only in Rome
• In many parts of the ancient world
• only on the Silk Road

Tribes of the plains of northern Asia were

• friendly and opened inns along the Silk Road
• were nomadic and good at transferring goods
• farmers and raised wheat and rice
• barbarians who attacked anyone they encountered

Silk was so popular in ancient Rome that the Roman leaders

• wore it all the time
• kept rolls of the fabric locked in their temples
• tried to ban it in Rome
• ordered that silk trees be planted all over the Roman Empire 

Due to the Silk Road, the merchant class became

• wealthy and powerful
• became the lowest class
• slaves for the rich farmers
• poor and unimportant

The goods and ideas traded on the Silk Road affected

• only the rich
• many people - both rich and poor
• merchant class only
• only the people of Asia

Ideas and religions such as __________ spread rapidly on the Silk Road.

• Judaism
• Daoism
• Buddhism
• Hinduism

Which of the following is NOT a disease spread along the Silk Road?

• Ebola
• Measles
• Bubonic Plague (The Black Death)
• Smallpox