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