Question 1 (1 point)
Which word best describes the scope of the Silk Road?
Question 1 options:
Intergalactic
Interstate
Interminable
intercontinental
Question 2 (1 point)
Which of the following contributed most to the completion of the overland Silk Routes?
Question 2 options:
Trade between small, neighboring tribes
The growth of powerful empires in Europe and Asia
Competition from maritime Silk Routes
China's hunger for foreign goods
Question 3 (1 point)
Place these empires in chronological order: A) Macedonian (Alexander the Great); B) Mongol; C) Han Dynasty
Question 3 options:
A,B,C
A,C,B
C,A,B
B,C,A
Question 4 (1 point)
The Silk Road was named retroactively, in the 19th century. What does "retroactive" mean?
Question 4 options:
Arbitrary or random
Applying to something in the past
Having to do with trade
Referring to foreign cultures
Question 5 (1 point)
Which structure owes its existence at least partially due to the Silk Road?
Question 5 options:
The Great Wall of China
The Pyramids of Giza
Stonehenge
The Eiffel Tower
Question 6 (1 point)
Where would you be most likely to find a city along the Silk Road?
Question 6 options:
On an island
On a mountain
In the middle of a lake
On the bank of a river or near an oasis
Question 7 (1 point)
Which of the following examples provides the best analogy for the movement of goods along the Silk Road?
Question 7 options:
A mail carrier delivering a package to a home
A waiter bringing food to a diner
An electric signal moving down a wire
A runner passing a baton in a relay race
Question 8 (1 point)
What kind of effect did the Mongol Empire have on the overland Silk Road?
Question 8 options:
minor
destructive
Stabilizing
Incidental
Question 9 (1 point)
What provided security to the Silk Road?
Question 9 options:
a network of Empires
silk
water
bandits
Question 10 (1 point)
What ultimately brought about the end of the Silk Road?
Question 10 options:
direct safer and cheaper trade routes to Asia from Europe
disease
harsh rulers
lack of desire to trade
