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The Silk Road stretched from where to where?
Rome and Syria in the west to China in the east
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What are the three major time periods of the Silk Road?
- 1. the 2nd century B.C. to the 2nd century A.D.
- 2. 7th-10th century A.D.
- 3. the 12th-14th century A.D.
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When the first major contact came between East and West, who conquested Central Asia?
Alexander the Great
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What are 2 reasons for Romes downfall?
Unweildy size, Disease, Weak ineffective rulers
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2 reasons for the Success of Rome
- Technolgical advancements, Strong central Gov.,
- Strong military
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When Alexander's empire fell, what three powers took over his land?
- Parthians in east,
- Romans to the west,
- and China extended far to the west, the eastern-most boundary of Alexander's empire.
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Who acted as middlemen for trade between the Romans and the Huns?
The parthians were the middlemen of gold
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Why did trade become more treacherous and expensive at the end of the first main silk road period?
They had to pass through small states, paying taxes through each one.
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In the 7th century, what new influence bagan to dominate the area of Central Asia?
Islam
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What area the conquest of the muslim empire unify?
from Arabia in the west to Kashgar China in the east
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When the silk road was on its bad periods, where did Arabic traders turn to to trade?
the sea. the could then take their goods to China
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The third silk road time, Central Asia and China were unified under what empire?
the great mongol empire
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Why were the roads the safest ever to travel from the 12th-14th century/
one empire controlled all of the middle east and central asia.
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What two empires fell to cause the end of the 3rd silk road period?
Mongols and Constantinople
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How long is the silk road from Chang'ag to Antioch
4,000 miles
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what is the easiest portion of the silk road route
Gansu Corridor
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What is north of the Gansu Corridor? What is south?
- a. Gobi desert
- b. Qilian mtns.
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The qilian mtns. form the NE edge of ____________.
the Tibeten Plateua
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What river feeds to oasis in Dunhuang?
Tang River
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What do locals call the Taklimakan desert?
Land of death
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The Taklimakan Desert occupies what geo feature?
Tarim Basin
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what river flows year-round in the Tarim Basin?
Aksu River
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What mtn. range lies north of the Taklimakan desert? how high is its peak?
Tian Shan mtns. 24,000 ft.
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List two oasis cities on the southern route around the Taklimakan Desert
Miran, Niya
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South of the Southern route lie tallest mtns. What are these 3 ranges called?
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one of the few passes that lead into the indian-subcontinent?
Mustagh pass
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largest oasis city in Chinese Central Asia?
Kashgar
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What fertile valley does the route take through the pamir mtns?
Ferengana Valley
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What 2 desert follow the Pamir mtns?
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how long is the plateau of iran?
1,200 miles
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how high is Hamadan above sea level? what mtn range does it lie in?
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What is the oasis city of Palmyra known as?
the Bride of the Desert.
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what geo feature do the cities of Antioch and Tyre occupy?
Medeteranean sea
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What was Buddahs real name
Saddartha Guatama
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who was the induvidual who gave up all comforts to find enlightenment?
Buddah
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who wrote the Koran?
Muhammad's followers
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what are the 2 muslim sects?
sunni and shia
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which sect believed the son of muhammad was the rightful leader?
shia
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what year was the fall of rome?
476 A.D.
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What time period followed the fall of Rome?
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what% of the world is either Christian or Muslim?
about 55% or half
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in what century was the height of the Mongol empire?
1200-1300 A.D.
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