Question

Answer all questions given under each heading.

Silk Route 

(a) What is meant by Silk route?

(b) Which places were linked by this route?

(c) Name the good exchanged from East to West and West to East.

(d) Name the religion which reached China through this route.

Answer 1

(a) The trade route from China to Asia Minor and India, known as the Silk Road or Silk Route.

(b) It linked China with the West. Goods and ideas between the two great civilizations of Rome and China were exchanged through this route.

(c) Silk went westward, and wools, gold, and silver went east.

(d) China received Buddhism from India via the Silk Road. .