The Silk Road: Trade Across Continents
For centuries, caravans linked China with the Mediterranean, carrying silk, spices, paper, and ideas. Travel the world's most famous trade network, one oasis at a time.
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The Silk Road connected China with which distant region?
Multiple Choice · 20s
AAustraliaBThe Mediterranean worldCThe ArcticDThe AmericasWhy was silk so fabulously expensive in ancient Rome?
Multiple Choice · 20s
ARoman law taxed it heavilyBIt never survived the journeyCDyeing it required rare shellsDOnly the Chinese knew how to make itWhat was a caravanserai?
Multiple Choice · 20s
AA desert windBA camel's saddle packCA roadside inn where caravans restedDA type of silk cloth- Knowledge of making which everyday writing material spread west along the Silk Road?Multiple Choice · 20s
- Which religion spread from India into China along the Silk Road?Multiple Choice · 20s
- Samarkand, one of the great Silk Road trading cities, stands in which modern country?Multiple Choice · 20s
- The two-humped camel that carried most goods across Central Asia is called the ... camel.Multiple Choice · 20s
- Most traders walked or rode the entire route from China to the Mediterranean themselves.True / False · 20s
- The name 'Silk Road' was only invented in the 1800s, long after the routes stopped thriving.True / False · 20s
- Which of these goods was a prized SPICE carried west along the routes?Multiple Choice · 20s
- Which precious fabric, unwound from cocoons, gave the whole network its name? (one word)Type Answer · 30s
- The eastern end of the Silk Road lay in which country? (one word)Type Answer · 30s
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