The Silk Road

Officials were people

• who were assigned a specific position in the government.

• who were scholars.

• who traded on the silk road.

• who exchanged ideas with others.

A civil service is

• someone who was kind to others

• a system of government employees mainly selected for their skill.

• Confucian scholars

• a network of trade routs that crossed Asia.

What was the name for the network of trade routes that crossed Asia connecting China to Central and Southeast Asia.

• civil service

• officials

• Silk Road

• officials

An envoy was

• representatives of the emperor who helped create relations with kingdoms in the west.

• a large amount of caravans that traveled together on the Silk Road for protection.

• a type of food that was carefully prepared for the emperor.

• an ancient Chinese god.

Grapes, sesame, and onion were all brought into China through the Silk Road and was used to improve Chinese

• envoys

• cuisine

• trading

• government

Officials were people who were__________ to a position in government.

• obtained

• envoyed

• assigned

• official

The emperor ________ rare animals such as elephants, lions, and ostriches from other countries.

• envoy

• assigned

• obtained

• absconded

The exchanging of ideas such as Chinese Inventions was spread along

• empires

• the civil service

• Han Dynasty

• The Silk Road

The emperor would send these people to help establish good relations with other countries.

• officials

• civil services

• envoys

• scholars

Han officials

• collected taxes, organized labor, and enforced laws.

• gave speeches, taught the scholars, wrote laws.

• traded goods, improved relations with other countries and built roads.

• made goods to be traded on the Silk Road