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Trade along the Silk Road

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 7mins

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Class
Date
1.

Which of the following best describes the Silk Road?

a)

A series of interconnected routes along which goods and ideas travelled

b)

A way to safely trade silk from Europe to China

c)

The series of events that allowed for empires to rise and fall

d)

The set of cities that were connected and traded certain products.

2.

What religions saw success in spreading along the Silk Road

a)

Islam

b)

Buddhism

c)

Confucianism

d)

Christianity

3.

Most often, merchants travelled personally from one end of the Silk Road to the other.

a)

True

b)

False

4.

Which of the following statements is false?

a)

Silk wasn't the only good traded along the Silk Road

b)

Goods were never modified as they travelled along the Silk Road

c)

The Silk Road included oversea roads, not just overland roads

d)

The merchants often travelled in caravans to stay safe.

5.

The Silk Road trade (or lack of) directly led to the collapse of which empire we studied?

a)

Imperial Rome

b)

Han China

c)

Aksum

d)

Gupta India

6.
The 2 part legacy of the Silk Road: the spread of goods and ideas and the connected-ness of cultures.
a)
War and Peace
b)
Feast and Famine
c)
Cultural Diffusion and Globalizaiton
d)
Wet Monsoon and Dry Monsoon
7.

The western end of the Silk Road connected to the

a)

Atlantic Ocean

b)

Mediterranean Sea

c)

Pacific Ocean

d)

Indian Ocean

8.

Silk is a fiber that comes from

a)

silk plants

b)

silkworm cocoons

c)

silk leaves

d)

all of the above

9.

What sorts of things were traded along the Silk Road?

a)

Silk

b)

Spices

c)

Porcelain

d)

Salt

e)

All of the above

10.
Which one was NOT a danger on the Silk Road?
a)
Wild fires would break out.
b)
bandits
c)
lack of water
d)
bad weather