Section 5 Ch

What linked China with the

Middle East and Rome?

• Great Wall

• trade routes

The introduction of

Buddhism to China is an

example of which of the

following principles?

• diffusion

• distribution

Which of the following was

a 4,000-mile-long network of

trade routes?

• Silk Road

• Great Wall

The production of which

substance increased during

the Han dynasty?

• cotton

• silk

What religion came to China

from India and gained many

followers?

• b. Hinduism

• Buddhism

The iron plow and the _______________, a single-wheeled cart,

increased farm output.

• wheelbarrow

• diffusion

China’s leaders saw they could make a profit by bringing

to Central Asia and trading it for horses.

• wheelbarrow

• silk

Silk is made from the cocoons of a certain type of worm. The threads of

the cocoon are unraveled and then prepared for dyeing and weaving.

• True

• False

The diffusion was a 4,000-mile-long network of routes that stretched

westward from China to the Mediterranean Sea.

• True

• False

Chinese women kept secret the method for making a soft, light, highly valued

fabric called _________to avoid punishment by death.

• cotton

• silk