World History II Final - Silk Road and Mangol Empire

Why was the Silk Road named the Silk Road?

• Chinese silk producers taught people along the route how to make silk,
• It is the name of the route in Chinese and it was just translated to other languages.
• Originally, it was the only route that people in the Middle East and Europe could buy silk.
• Silk was one of the four major commodities sold along the Silk Road it just so happened to be the one the road was named after.

The term for the Silk Road was coined by a German geographer Ferdinand von Richthofen in what year?

• 1244 CE
• 1877 CE
• 251 CE
• 906 CE

Which disease spread along the Silk Road?

• Bubonic Plague
• Cholera
• Covid-19
• Influenza

How did the Silk Road begin?

• The Silk Road was an extension of already existing roads that grew as more peoples started doing foreign trade.
• The Silk Road was established when the Han Dynasty opened its doors for trading with the west
• When Marco Polo made his first trip from Italy to China
• With the spread of Buddhism up from India and through China

Where was the Silk Road?

• Asia
• China, India, and Persia
• Eurasia
• Europe

Who had the monopoly on silk for the longest time?

• China
• India
• Persia
• Rome

Which religion spread the most over the Silk Road?

• Buddhism
• Confucian
• Hinduism
• Zoroastrianism

Before the Silk Road, the trade route between Persia and Europe was called what?

• Cambyses II’s Road
• Darius the Great’s Royal Road
• The Persian Royal Road
• The Royal Road

Many caravan guides for the Silk Road were trained at nautical schools in which country?

• Bactria
• China
• India
• Sogdia

The Silk Road owes an important part of its success to the domestication of which animal?

• Camel
• Dog
• Horse
• Pig