Silk Road / Explorers

True or false: The Silk Road was one long road spanning 4,000 miles.

• True

• False

All of these things traveled from China along the Silk Road EXCEPT

• Buddhism

• Gunpowder

• Paper

• Silk

Which of the following best describes the Silk Road?

• A single road that extended across Asia

• A route that was used to bring silk from Rome to China

• A network of trade routes that extended across Asia

• A route that connected Eastern and Western Europe

Which is the MOST important fact that makes the Silk Road significant to history?

• It brought silk to China

• It was one on the first times Europe and Asia were connected and products and cultures were exchanged.

• It led to the building of the Great Wall of China

• Marco Polo used it

What animals transported most of the goods along the Silk Road?

• Horses

• Camels

• Llamas

• Alpacas

This person was a famous traveler, merchant, and writer on the Silk Road who spent 17 years in China. His book made Europeans fascinated with Asia upon his return to Europe.

• Admiral Zheng He

• Ferdinand Magellan

• Niccolo Machiavelli

• Marco Polo

What type of disease spread along the Silk Road?

• Swine Flu

• Ebola

• Black Plague

• Tuberculosis

Silk was considered so valuable that if someone told the secret of how to make it, they would...

• Be sent to Siberia

• Be sentenced to death

• Be sent to a penal colony

• Life imprisonment

Which of the following was a major motive for exploration during the Age of Exploration?

• Spreading religion

• $$$$$

• National Pride

• All of the above

The first to reach India by sailing around Africa

• Vasco da Gama

• Henry Hudson

• Henry the Navigator

• Ferdinand Magellan