Names: _______________________________________ Date: ___________

Silk Roads Trading Game

The Silk Roads were a series of overland and sea trade routes that connected China, India, Arabia, and Europe. The first routes cropped up during the time of the Han Dynasty, but stayed in use for more than a thousand years. Despite its name, silk was but one item traded on these routes. Other items included precious jewels, animals, spices, fruits and even gunpowder.

For this activity, your team has been given a “Shopping List” that you must complete on the silk roads. You must trade the products you are given in order to complete your list.

With which products did you start?

Which products did you find the most difficult to obtain? Why do you think that is?

Which products did you end up with? Which regions are these items from? Did you meet your shopping list? If not, what were you unable to get?

Aside from trading consumer goods, what else were the Silk Roads used for?

Explain the following phrase: “Global trade stops war.”

Name: ____________________________________ Date: __________________

The Silk Roads: Animation

As you watch the animation, answer the following questions.

1. In which city did the Silk Roads begin?

2. Which religions spread by the Silk Roads?

3. The silk roads skirted which Chinese desert?

4. What could traders get at the markets in Kashgar?

5. What nickname was given to the Pamir mountains and why?

6. At which body of water did the Silk Roads end?

Sample Shopping Lists

Animal for transportation

An edible plant

Jewels

Home good

Something sweet

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Animal for transportation

Spices

Jewels

Something to make clothing

Scented wood

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Precious stone

An edible plant

Precious metal

Something to make clothing

Weapon

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An animal for transportation

Precious stone

Something sweet

Something to make clothing

Home good