Silk Road simulation quiz

Which statement BEST describes the Silk Road?

• The Silk Road passed through many different lands and used to move soldiers, spread goods and ideas.
• The Silk Road passed through many different lands and climates helping to spread ideas.
• The Silk Road passed through many different lands and climates helping to spread goods.
• The Silk Road passed through many different lands and climates helping to spread goods and ideas.

Which religion spread from India along the Silk Road?

• Islam
• Buddhism
• Christianity
• Confucianism

What type of goods could be purchased at the Kashgar Bazaar?

• Fabric, Dried Fruits and Livestock
• Fabric, Weapons and Livestock
• Fabric, Medicine and Livestock
• Fabric, Dried Fruits and Insects

What religion were people beginning to convert during the time of your journey (Tang Dynasty)?

• Islam
• Buddhism
• Christianity
• Confucianism

Which statement BEST describes the role of oases like Dunhuang Crescent Lake?

• Oases were small towns that could provide travelers with information about the next leg of their journey. And oases provided travelers with an opportunity to replenish their food.

• Oases were small towns that could provide travelers with information about the next leg of their journey. And oases provided travelers with an opportunity to replenish their water.

• An oasis provided travelers with an opportunity to replenish their food and water. Oases were small towns that could provide travellers with information about the next leg of their journey.

• An oases provided travelers with an opportunity to replenish their water and food.

True or False - Temperatures in the desert did not fluctuate (change) much from day to night.

• True
• False

An archeologists looking for evidence of religions practiced along the Silk Road would be most interested in

• The conversations you had with locals in Kashgar
• Mogao Caves
• Xi'an
• Chang'an

True or False - Nomads were always violent.

• True
• False

Why was the Great Wall of China built?

• To resist invasion from nomadic tribes and other states
• To resist invasion from nomadic tribes
• To resist invasion from other states
• To keep the Chinese people in China

At present Your Majesty possesses a unified empire and has firmly established for yourself a position of sole supremacy. And yet these independent schools, joining with each other, criticize the codes of laws and instructions. Hearing of the promulgation of a decree, they criticize it.Your servant suggests that all books in the imperial archives, save the memoirs of Qin, be burned.Those who dare to talk to each other about the Odes and Documents should be executed and their bodies exposed in the marketplace. Anyone referring to the past to criticize the present should, together with all members of his family, be put to death.

----- Li Si, Advisor to the Emperor

Which philosophy can be seen in the above document?

• Confucianism

• Buddhism

• Legalism

• Daoism