Silk Roads

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. 

Which is the most important fact that makes the Silk Road significant to history ?

• It brought Silk to Europe.
• Marco Polo used the Silk Road.
• It was one on the first times Europe and Asia were connected and products and cultures were exchanged.
• It was so long ago. 

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

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

Which cultural idea was exchanged on the Silk Road?

• language
• religion
• skills
• All of the listed answers

Religion was spread on the Silk Road.

• False

• True

Check the negatives of the Silk Road that are true.

• It was dangerous to travel the Silk Road.

• Corona virus spread on the Silk Road.

• Bandits could steal your goods.

• The Bubonic Plague spread on the Silk Road.

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

• A. True
• B. False

Besides goods, what else was exchanged on the silk road?

• agricultural practices
• religions
• diseases
• all of the above

The Silk Road was important because

• it helped the Han empire control the Mediterranean region

• it extended a thousand miles across Asia

• it linked Asian and western cultures for more a thousand years

• it connected the Han and Egyptian empires

What were the major items traded along the Silk Road?

• gold, slaves and porcelain

• silk, porcelain, paper and gunpowder

• gold, slaves and spices

• gold, salt, slaves and ivory