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Name ________________________________ Class ____________________ Date ____________ Ancient China Lesson 5 MAIN IDEAS 1. Trade routes linked China with the Middle East and Rome. 2. The most famous trade route was known as the Silk Road. Key Terms and People Silk Road a network of trade routes between China and the Mediterranean Sea Lesson Summary EXPANSION OF TRADE During the Han dynasty, Chinese goods, especially silk fabric and fine pottery, were highly valued by people in other lands. So the value of these goods outside China helped increase trade. Powerful Han armies expanded into Central Asia, Vietnam, and Korea. Han rulers believed that other ethnic groups outside of China were inferior to the Chinese. So Han armies brought Chinese culture into these societies. They also stabilized the region, which made the transport of goods over trade routes safer. Trade increased as China’s leaders realized they could make a profit by bringing silk to Central Asia. Then they traded it for horses. The Central Asian people then took the silk west and traded it for other products. In 139 BC, Emperor Wudi wanted to establish alliances with an enemy group. He sent one of his generals to these western lands. However, the general was imprisoned and did not return for 13 years. Then he told of great wealth and large horses in Central Asia. Wudi sent an army there to conquer the lands. The empire grew, and trade routes developed to the west. The Chinese extended the Great Wall to protect their land and trade routes. Along the trade routes, trading What led to an increase in trade outside China? __________________________ __________________________ __________________________ Underline the sentence that explains why Han armies brought Chinese culture into areas outside of China. What caused cities to grow in western China? __________________________ __________________________ __________________________ __________________________ © Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company 83 Guided Reading Workbook
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Name ________________________________ Class ____________________ Date ____________
Ancient China
Lesson 5
MAin ideAs1. Trade routes linked China with the Middle East and Rome.
2. The most famous trade route was known as the Silk Road.
Key Terms and People
silk Road a network of trade routes between China and the Mediterranean Sea
Lesson summaryexPAnsion of TRAdeDuring the Han dynasty, Chinese goods, especially silk fabric and fine pottery, were highly valued by people in other lands. So the value of these goods outside China helped increase trade.
Powerful Han armies expanded into Central Asia, Vietnam, and Korea. Han rulers believed that other ethnic groups outside of China were inferior to the Chinese. So Han armies brought Chinese culture into these societies. They also stabilized the region, which made the transport of goods over trade routes safer. Trade increased as China’s leaders realized they could make a profit by bringing silk to Central Asia. Then they traded it for horses. The Central Asian people then took the silk west and traded it for other products.
In 139 BC, Emperor Wudi wanted to establish alliances with an enemy group. He sent one of his generals to these western lands. However, the general was imprisoned and did not return for 13 years. Then he told of great wealth and large horses in Central Asia. Wudi sent an army there to conquer the lands. The empire grew, and trade routes developed to the west. The Chinese extended the Great Wall to protect their land and trade routes. Along the trade routes, trading
What led to an increase in trade outside China?
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Underline the sentence that explains why Han armies brought Chinese culture into areas outside of China.
What caused cities to grow in western China?
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Lesson 5, continued
posts and farming settlements developed. This led to the rise of cities in western China.
TRAde ALong THe siLK RoAdTraders used a series of overland routes to take Chinese goods to distant lands. The most famous trade route was known as the Silk Road. Most merchants traveled only a small part of the Silk Road, selling their goods along the way to other traders. Then when they reached Central Asia, these traders sold their goods to other local traders who took the goods the rest of the way.
Traveling the Silk Road was difficult and risky, so traders formed groups for protection. Traders also faced icy blizzards, desert heat, and sandstorms. However, the Silk Road was worth the many risks. Silk was so popular in Rome, for example, that China grew wealthy just from trading with Romans. Traders also returned from Rome with gold, silver, precious stones, and horses.
The exchange of goods along the Silk Road led to a wider world economy. Goods from Europe and Africa went to China, and Chinese goods went west. In addition to goods, the Silk Road also caused people to exchange knowledge and inventions. People had to learn new languages to communicate with traders from different cultures. People from different places talked to one another and exchanged knowledge of the arts and science.
Advanced technologies such as paper making and irrigation systems spread across Asia and beyond by way of the Silk Road. Religion also spread because of trade routes. Buddhism came from India to China by way of the Silk Road.
During the Han period, few foreigners traveled to China. However, trade brought foreign ideas and technology.
What was the most famous overland trade route that the Chinese used to take goods to distant lands?
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Underline the sentences that explain why traveling the silk Road was worth the risks traders faced.
List three examples that demonstrate the spread of knowledge and technology along the silk Road.
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CHALLenge ACTiViTYCritical Thinking: summarize Imagine that you are an experienced Chinese trader on the Silk Road. Write a short advertisement for an assistant trader. Be sure to include the benefits of the job.
diReCTions Use the vocabulary term Silk Road to write a poem about what you learned in the lesson.
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diReCTions On the line before each statement, write T if the statement is true and F if the statement is false. If the statement is false, change the underlined term to make the sentence true. Then write the correct term on the line after the sentence.
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______ 2. During the Han dynasty, silk and pottery were highly valued by Romans.
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______ 3. The Silk Road was a network of routes westward between China and the Mediterranean Sea.
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______ 4. Traders returned from Vietnam with gold, silver, precious stones, and horses.
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