Silk Road Vocabulary

a network of land and sea trade routes that linked China, Europe, and Africa

• Via Maris

• Silk Road

• Trans Saharan Trade Route

• Amber Road

a valuable cloth, originally made only in China from threads spun by caterpillars called silkworms

• cotton

• velvet

• wool

• silk

a form of trade in which people exchange goods and services without the use of money

• cowrie shells

• currency

• barter

• trade seals

disease that affects humans and other mammals

• famine

• plague

• lethargy

• fatigue

buying and selling goods and services

• levy

• manufacture

• fabricate

• trade

the spread of ideas or products from one culture to another

• cultural isolation

• cultural segregation

• cultural seclusion

• cultural diffusion

a group of traveling merchants and animals (usually traveling together for safety)

• guild

• marauder

• caravan

• legion

to buy from another country

• export

• import

to sell to another country

• export

• import

the buying and selling of goods (in large amounts over long distances)

• commerce

• duty

• tariffs

• embargo