SAT II World History : Trade
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Example Question #18 : Global Developments
Which of the following is true of the Silk Roads?
The Silk Roads involved exchange by both land and sea.
The Silk Roads involved exchange only by sea.
The Silk Roads were established during the fourteenth century CE.
The Silk Roads inhibited the exchange of goods and ideas from China.
The Silk Roads involved exchange only by land.
The Silk Roads involved exchange by both land and sea.
Despite the connotation of the word "roads," exchange along the Silk Roads took place by both land and sea. These passageways greatly facilitated—rather than inhibited—the exchange of goods and ideas to and from China. The Silk Roads were established well before the fourteenth century CE.
Example Question #2 : Trade
The Phonecian people of Europe and the Near East are best described as __________.
seafaring traders
barbarian invaders
aggressive expansionists
devoutly pious
pacifists
seafaring traders
The Phoencian people were seafaring traders who established trading outposts all over the Mediterranean from approximatley 1200 BCE to 500 BCE. Their importance in human history is twofold: they helped connect the peoples and cultues of Mediterranean Europe, and their alphabet developed into the Greek and Latin alphabets.
Example Question #21 : Prehistory To 500 C.E.
The Silk Road ran __________.
from China to the Mediterranean
from Rome to China
from India to Persia
from India to Rome
from Spain to China
from China to the Mediterranean
The Silk Road is the name given to a series of trading routes that ran from Han China to the Mediterranean. First established in the second century CE, the Silk Road connected the East to the West via trade for the first time in human history. This would facilitate the spread of ideas, religions, resources, as well as disease and economic catastrophes.
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