Silk Road

Question 1

Is a network of trade routes that stretched from China and Eastern Asia in the east to as far as Turkey and Italy to the west.

Answer 1

Silk Road

Question 2

A symbolic sharing-exchanging of important goods with desire to control the commodity

Answer 2

Silk

Question 3

Ferdinand von Richthofen

Answer 3

coined the term “Seidenstraße” after traveling to China in the 1860s-70s.

Question 4

It extended approximately _____ KM ( 4,000 mi ) across some of the world’s most formidable
landscapes

Answer 4

6, 437 Km

Question 5

First contact between China and the west came around the year

Answer 5

200 BCE.

Question 6

The reach of ____ “extended their
empire as far as the Seres”

Answer 6

Greco-Bactrian empire

Question 7

The reach of Greco-Bactrian empire “extended their
empire as far as the

Answer 7

Seres

Question 7

_____ and ______ fought a war over silk/secret of production of silm

Answer 7

Ottoman Turks and the Persians

Question 7

legendary emperor who initiated the raising of the silk worms.

Answer 7

Fo Xi

Question 8

legendary wife of the Yellow Emperor who develop the reeling of silk filament.

Answer 8

Xi Lingshi

Question 9

First process of sericulture began from
________ at about _______BC.

Answer 9

Yangzi Valley ; 4000-5000

Question 10

A silk cocoon dated about _____ at

Answer 10

2500 BC at Huang Ho Valley.

Question 11

The production of silk is typically bounded by

Answer 11

taboos and commonly done by women.

Question 12

Today, 10 million Chinese are involved in sericulture with around _____ tons of silk produced annually.

Answer 12

60,000

Question 13

Use of Chinese Silk

Answer 13

• Became a medium of exchange
• Became a mode of paying a salary
• Used for royal tributes
• Used for fishing, making paper, and instruments
  Clothing.

Question 14

Indian tussah silk with 2500 BC

Answer 14

Indus Valley

Question 15

silk moth that can turn to fiber

Answer 15

Mediterranean

Question 16

trace can be found as early as 500 BC.

Answer 16

Bactrian Empire

Question 17

1000 BC

Answer 17

Egyptian Empire

Question 18

purple dyed silk.

Answer 18

Alexander the Great

Question 19

Sericulture arrive in 200 BC in _____ and 3rd
century CE in _____

Answer 19

Korea ; Japan

Question 20

PERIODS of SILK TRADE

Answer 20

a) Chinese Han to Rome (206
BC to 220 CE)

b) Tang Dynasty to Byzantium
(618 to 907)

c) Yuan Dynasty to modern Europe
(13th-14th century)

d) Modern Era

Question 21

People from Central Asia allow the flow of trading from China.

Answer 21

Xiongsu

Question 22

Xiongsi is associated with high wealth and power

Answer 22

Caesar

Question 23

smuggled silks from China because Chinese silks are considered a high quality

Answer 23

Byzantine Empire

Question 24

Introduced silk to cultural patterns of Sassanians and Indians and the Assyrians tree of life.

Answer 24

TANG SILK ROAD

Question 25

Popular to Romans which led to a shortage of gold and silver

Answer 25

Han to Rome

Question 26

The hegemony of Mongols throughout the 13th-14 century revitalize the Silk Road route, even with conflicts among some ethnicities.

Answer 26

MONGOL SILK ROAD

Question 27

Height of exchange in Medicine, Religion, spices and precious stones.

Answer 27

MONGOL SILK ROAD

Question 28

Fueled the Mercantilist transformation of Europe. Utilized by European royalties

Answer 28

MODERN ERA

Question 29

capital city of ancient China

Answer 29

Chang’an

Question 30

crossroads of the cultures, 7th century BC.

Answer 30

Samarkand

Question 31

located in the Euphrates coasts

Answer 31

Aleppo

Question 32

capital of Eastern Roman Empire.

Answer 32

Byzantium

Question 33

traveled to Dunhuang, through Samarkand, and to origin of Buddhism in India

Answer 33

Xuanzang

Question 34

Learned the most difficult Buddhist texts which led to his persuading Chinese elites to embrace his faith

Answer 34

Xuanzang

Question 35

a Venetian who supposedly live with Kublai Khan court for 17 years.

Answer 35

Marco Polo

Question 36

Recorded his accounts of cultural exchange and commodities.

Answer 36

Marco Polo

Question 37

unknowingly traveled across India and China were he recorded accounts on political and economic conditions.

Answer 37

Muhammad Ibn Battuta