Culture and Trade

Locate and label each of the following countries on the map: China, India, Persia, Arabia.

Silk was the only product traded on the Silk Road

• True

• False

What effects did trade have beyond moving goods?

• Diseases spread by trade

• Ideas and religion spread by trade

• Innovations spread by trade

• All of the answers are correct

​The Silk Road was a network of trade routes that connected China to other parts of _____and the _______.​

• Asia/West

• China/West

• China/Mediterranean

• Asia/Europe

​The Silk Road was over _____ miles long​

• 3,000

• 4,000

• 5,000

• 6,000

Which Statement best describes a merchants journey on the Silk Road?

• Long, harsh and dangerous

• Short, harsh and dangerous

• Long, easy going and not dangerous

• Short, easy going and not dangerous

What is Cultural Diffusion?

Which is an example of Cultural Diffusion along the Silk Road

• The spread of the Black Plague

• The spread of Buddhism from India to East Asia

• The spread of the process to make paper

• The spread of new spieces of animals from one country to the next

Which was not a danger merchants encountered along the Silk Road?

• Bad Weather

• Bandits

• Language Barrier

• Natural Barriers

The silk road starts in

• Wakanda

• China

• India

• Egypt