Slik Road 2 Flashcards
What does ‘Acquire’ mean?
To come into possession of something.
What are ‘Caravans’?
A group of people traveling together.
What is ‘Cultural Diffusion’?
The spreading of cultural traits, such as goods and ideas, from one culture to another, or within one culture.
What does ‘Dominated’ mean?
To have control or power over something.
What does ‘Linked’ mean?
To connect two or more people or things.
What does ‘Occur’ mean?
To take place.
What is ‘Oxygen’?
A gas in the air that people and animals need to breathe to live.
What is the ‘Silk Road’?
A network of trade routes that stretched for more than four thousand miles across Asia.
What is a ‘Trade Route’?
A network of roads along which traders traveled.
What threat did the Huns pose to China during the Han dynasty?
They threatened China from the north.
Who was Zhang Qian?
An explorer often called the Father of the Silk Road because he opened the way for trade with western cultures.
Why did people in China want horses from Central Asia?
Because the horses were larger and more powerful than Chinese horses.
Why is silk valuable in the West?
Because the Chinese were the only ones who knew how to make it.
