Chinese Inventions and the Silk Road

The trade route that connected China and Ancient Rome.

• The Silk Road
• The Cotton Trail
• The Sea Route
• The Great Canal

The Chinese invention used to make weapons and fireworks.

• Gasoline
• Steel
• Gunpowder
• Coal

Silk is made from

• fiber from silkworm cocoons 
• the unhatched moths 
• mulberry leaf cocoons
• the hatched moths from silkworm cocoons

What is a caravan?

• a van that drives like a car
• a car almost as big as a van
• a group of people traveling together
• a group of cars parked together

What was the terrain/land like on the Silk Road?

• harsh deserts and mountains
• Coastal and wet
• farmland and jungle
• hills and valleys

What invention was used on both the farm and on the battlefield?

• Compass
• Wheelbarrow
• Bronze
• Gunpowder

What was the biggest threat to merchants traveling on the Silk Road?

• Diseases
• Getting lost
• Starvation
• Thieves

This helped sailors navigate.

• Rocket
• Compass
• Porcelain
• Silk Road

Gunpowder led to

• fireworks
• porcelain
• rockets
• Both fireworks and rockets

Paper led to

• silk
•  money
• books
• both books and money