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    The Silk Road was a network of trade routes established in 130 BC by the Han Dynasty of China that connected China to the Mediterranean region. It helped facilitate trade and the exchange of ideas, religion, and technology between different kingdoms and empires. Silk was a major traded good, originating in China, although many other products like spices, grains and metals were also traded along the routes. The Silk Road declined after the fall of the Tang Dynasty in 1453 but was recognized as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2014 for its role in cultural exchange between East and West.

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    The Silk Road was a network of trade routes established in 130 BC by the Han Dynasty of China that connected China to the Mediterranean region. It helped facilitate trade and the exchange of ideas, religion, and technology between different kingdoms and empires. Silk was a major traded good, originating in China, although many other products like spices, grains and metals were also traded along the routes. The Silk Road declined after the fall of the Tang Dynasty in 1453 but was recognized as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2014 for its role in cultural exchange between East and West.

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    The Silk Road

    Read the article and then answer the questions

    Established by the Chinese Han Dynasty in 130 B.C. The  Silk Road  was the name for a
    network of routes from the countries of the Far East, back to the
    eastern  Mediterranean  countries that were used to trade goods. The Silk Road was
    important because it helped to generate trade and commerce between a number of
    different kingdoms and empires during the time. This helped for exchange of scientific,
    literary ideas, religious beliefs, and technological advances. It was called the Silk Road
    because one of the major products traded was silk cloth from China where it was invented
    and worn by royal Chinese families. Silk is the fibre produced by the silkworm for making its
    cocoon. The Chinese claim the making of silk fabric originated in  China  around the
    year 2700 B.C it is for these reasons China was known as the "Land of Silk.”

    The Chinese tried to keep information about the manufacture of silk cloth secret, but
    gradually traders brought the secrets to other countries. In the 1st century B. C, silk was
    brought west into the Roman Empire. Although silk was the earliest product traded through
    this network many other products were brought along these paths. Grain, spices, metal,
    vegetables, fruit, animal hides, religious objects and jewels were just some of the goods
    introduced to other regions of the world this way.

    As time went on, traders from one country had to make new land routes because of bad
    feelings or relations between one country and another. Also, if the weather conditions were
    bad, traders would have to develop new routes. On the land routes, merchant caravans
    would usually travel between certain points, using horses and camels, bringing products a
    specific distance, trading along the way and picking up other products to sell. They would
    then return along the same route.

    The sea routes at first carried mainly spices, like cinnamon, ginger, pepper, cloves and
    nutmeg, from the East to the west. These sea routes became known as the Spice Roads. Sea
    routes developed between Arabia and China as early as the 700's A. D. Progress in the art of
    shipbuilding made sea travel quicker and safer.  Zanzibar, an island off the east coast of
    Africa, and Alexandria, in Egypt, became two big ports along this route.

    The role the traders played in the interchange of culture and language between East and
    West was the greatest lasting result of the Silk Road. However, following the fall of the Tang
    Dynasty, the trade on the Silk Road rapidly declined and ended in 1453 A.D In June 2014,
    UNESCO designated the Chang'an-Tianshan corridor of the Silk Road as a World Heritage
    Site.

    1 Match the words to their meanings, for example 'A=6'


    A. Route ....................... 1. A piece of land surrounded by water
    B. Trade ....................... 2. To create or design something original
    C. Exchange ....................... 3. Become smaller, fewer, or less; decrease.
    D. Invented ....................... 4. An act of giving one thing and receiving another
    E. Gradually ....................... 5. Ideas, customs, social norms of people or a place
    F. Merchant ....................... 6. Slowly, in a gradual way
    G. Island ....................... 7. The action of buying and selling goods and services
    H. Culture ....................... 8. A way or course taken to reach a destination
    I. Rapidly ....................... 9. Very quickly, at a great rate.
    J. Decline ........................ 10. A person or company involved in wholesale trade

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    The Silk Road
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    2 Decide if the statements are True or False

    1. The silk road was established by the Han Dynasty 

    2. Trade on The Silk Road went all the way to America

    3. Literary ideas, religion and technology was exchanged on The Silk Road

    4. The Chinese tried to keep how Silk was made a secret

    5. Silk is made from butterflies during Spring

    6. The Silk Road is now an UNESCO World Heritage site

    3 1.
    Complete the sentences using the past simple tense
    We all .......................................... (study) The Silk Road in class today.
    2. Camels were ......................................... (use) to move different products along the road.
    3. Royals ....................................... (wear) Silk Robes during the time.
    4. My teacher told me he .........................................(live) in China for 2 years.
    5. She ......................................... (buy) some fresh vegetables and spices for dinner.

    4 How do people trade today? How is different to how people


    traded in the time of The Silk Road? Write 3 - 4 sentences
    below.

    ......................................................................................................................................................................................................
    ......................................................................................................................................................................................................
    ......................................................................................................................................................................................................
    ......................................................................................................................................................................................................
    ......................................................................................................................................................................................................
    ......................................................................................................................................................................................................

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    The Silk Road | Answer Key

    1 A=8
    B=7
    C=4
    2 1. T
    2. F
    3. T
    3 1. Studied
    2. Used
    3. Wore
    D=2 4. T 4. Lived
    E = 9 5. F 5. Bought
    F = 10 6. T
    G=1
    H=5
    I = 9
    J=3

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