Complete the graphic organizer below to show the cultural practices and
products that spread throughout Europe and Asia via the Silk Road.
Cultural Practices
Cultural Products
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Use of goldwrapped thread
and intricate knots
Draw Loom
method of
weaving silk
Astronomy
Herbs for
medicine
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Blown Glass
Silk
Landscape
Paintings
Blue-and-white
Tin-Glazed Ware
Water Wheel
Paper
Other
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Bubonic Plague
Flea-Eggs
Explain how the Silk Road contributed to the diffusion of religions in Asia.
The idea of Buddhism spread from person to person, by word of mouth, along
the Silk R79300oad.
The ideas of Buddhism moved from India to Central Asia to Tibet, China and
Japan.
Islam also spread in the same way from Western Asia to Central Asia, Iran,
China and India.