The Silk Roads

What was the silk roads?

• Roads made of silk in China

• International trade routes

• The road people used to trade only silk

True or False: The silk road was a route taken by traders that was available only by land.

• True

• False

What does maritime mean?

• Land travel

• Sea travel

• Air travel

• Time travel

Which of the following was something that the traders had to be concerned for?

• Weather

• Math

• Getting abducted by aliens

• Racing other traders

Because of harsh weather, what type of animal made a good pack animal when traders would travel the silk roads?

• Horse

• Elephant

• Camel

• Zebra

Silk is made from...

• Worms

• Spiders

• Cockroaches

• Silk is hand made.

True or False: One of the items the Chinese valued most when trading was horses from Central Asia.

• True

• False

Ideas spread from culture to culture through __________ along the Silk Road.

• Texting

• Forums

• Cultural Diffusion

• Notes

Many traders often __________ items for other goods.

• discarded

• bartered

• stole

Some ideas that spread through the Silk Road were...

• Christianity

• Catholicism

• Buddhism