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The Silk Road

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    How silk is made and about The Silk Road
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  • What is silk?
    Silk is a type of cloth. It is a thin, but strong fiber that silkworms produce when they are making their cocoons.
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  • What country was silk invented in?
    China
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  • What material is silk made from?
    The cocoons from silk worms.
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  • How was silk thread discovered? (Think about the video we watched)
    A silkworm fell into Empress Hsi Ling Shi's cup of tea.
    They found it at a Trader Joes Markt
    It was always there
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  • Why was silk important to Chinese culture?
    For gas in their cars? Maybe
    Silk was valuable and worn by rich people. Everything else
    They would follow the four cardinal directions
    Ask Luke?
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  • Why did the Chinese want to keep the silk-making process a secret?
    So they would be the only ones who could sell silk.
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  • What is The Silk Road?
    A bunch of roads to trade food and gold
    a place for fishing
    kinda like a starbucks but without food
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  • Why was The Silk Road important?
    Food and luxury items were traded there.
    it was soft road and easy to take naps
    They would sing and dance there.
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  • Name two things traded on The Silk Road.
    Any of these: silk, tea, salt, sugar, spices, cotton, ivory, wool, gold, silver, porcelain
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  • What animal helped people travel on the silk road?
    Camels
    Hawks
    Elephants
    Lions
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  • True or False A moth lays 500 or so eggs and then dies
    False
    True
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  • Bonus: What is the mandate of heaven?
    Chinese rulers believed that god gave them the right to rule.
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