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The Silk Road got its name mainly from the trade in which product?Read the answer and worked solution →The expansion of which Chinese dynasty into Central Asia began the Silk Road network?Read the answer and worked solution →Who popularized the term Silk Road in 1877 after expeditions to China?Read the answer and worked solution →The name Silk Road comes from the translation of a word from which language?Read the answer and worked solution →The Silk Road is best described as what?Read the answer and worked solution →To protect the trade route and its goods, the Chinese extended which structure?Read the answer and worked solution →Which empire provided a vital bridge connecting the Silk Road to the Mediterranean?Read the answer and worked solution →How did most goods cross the full length of the Silk Road?Read the answer and worked solution →Which modern highway follows the old southern Karakoram route through Khunjerab Pass?Read the answer and worked solution →The northern Silk Road route started at which ancient Chinese capital?Read the answer and worked solution →The two main overland routes bypassed which desert?Read the answer and worked solution →What was meant by relay trade on the overland Silk Road?Read the answer and worked solution →Who primarily established and operated the Maritime Silk Road?Read the answer and worked solution →The southern stretch from Khotan was first used for trading which material?Read the answer and worked solution →Zhang Qian was first sent west to win an alliance with the Yuezhi against which nomads?Read the answer and worked solution →The Chinese wanted the heavenly horses of Dayuan mainly to fight whom?Read the answer and worked solution →Han envoy Gan Ying was sent by general Ban Chao to Daqin. Which land is Daqin?Read the answer and worked solution →What did many Romans wrongly believe about where silk came from?Read the answer and worked solution →Why did the Roman Senate try to forbid the wearing of silk?Read the answer and worked solution →Monks sent by which Byzantine emperor smuggled silkworm eggs out of China?Read the answer and worked solution →Which caliphate stopped Chinese westward expansion at the Battle of Talas in 751?Read the answer and worked solution →Which city built by the Abbasids became the most important along the Silk Road?Read the answer and worked solution →Whose expansion in the 13th and 14th centuries brought stability and revived the Silk Road?Read the answer and worked solution →The Travels of Marco Polo tells of journeys by an explorer from which city?Read the answer and worked solution →Which Mongol diplomat visited the courts of Europe in 1287 and 1288?Read the answer and worked solution →Which disease may have reached Europe along Mongol trade routes in the late 1340s?Read the answer and worked solution →One theory says the plague was carried west by traders from which Italian city?Read the answer and worked solution →From 1453, which empire competed for control of overland routes, pushing Europeans to seek alternatives?Read the answer and worked solution →Silk Road transmission of Buddhism to China began in which century?Read the answer and worked solution →Which Chinese pilgrim travelled to India between 395 and 414 CE for Buddhist scriptures?Read the answer and worked solution →

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The Silk Road got its name mainly from the trade in which product?

  1. Silk textiles
  2. Cotton cloth
  3. Woollen carpets
  4. Linen sheets
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Correct answer: A. Silk textiles

1. The network was named after its most lucrative trade good. 2. That good was silk textiles, first produced in China. 3. Cotton, wool and linen were not the trade that gave the route its name. _Source: Wikipedia, Silk Road, Name and contested significance_

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The expansion of which Chinese dynasty into Central Asia began the Silk Road network?

  1. Tang
  2. Han
  3. Ming
  4. Qing
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Correct answer: B. Han

1. The network began around 114 BCE when a Chinese dynasty reached into Central Asia. 2. That dynasty was the Han, whose envoys opened the routes. 3. The Tang, Ming and Qing came much later and did not start the network. _Source: Wikipedia, Silk Road, Lead section_

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Who popularized the term Silk Road in 1877 after expeditions to China?

  1. Marco Polo, trader
  2. Edward Gibbon, author
  3. Warwick Ball, author
  4. Ferdinand von Richthofen
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Correct answer: D. Ferdinand von Richthofen

1. The name is a modern coinage of the 19th century. 2. Ferdinand von Richthofen popularized the German term Seidenstrasse in 1877. 3. Marco Polo and Gibbon never used the term, and Ball is a modern critic of it. _Source: Wikipedia, Silk Road, Name and contested significance_

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