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Conceptual Thinking Question: As you learned in this reading, travel and trade along the Silk Road was dangerous. What types of goods were often traded along these routes and why? 

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Conceptual Thinking Question: As you learned in this reading, travel and trade along the Silk Road was dangerous. What types of goods were often traded along these routes and why? 

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The main materi that was traded throughout the silk road was silk, which was desired by wealthy women. Other important trading goods that were traded were livestock. Materials that were commonly traded throughout the silk road were gold, copper, ivory and silver.

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What are some of the challenges that Stark and his wife face throughout the story?

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What are some of the challenges that Stark and his wife face throughout the story?

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Their environment around them was chaos. One challenge was that stream began to rise fast, smash against the banks and that they needed to get out of the canyon. Another challenge was when they were trying to get out of the canyon, they ran into a cliff that rose straight out of the charging water.

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How do you think traders, leading yaks loaded down with 300 pounds of goods, would have met these challenges?

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How do you think traders, leading yaks loaded down with 300 pounds of goods, would have met these challenges?

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They wouldn't have been able to get to the Yangtze River. At least not in the same way that Stark and his wife got there. But, they would meet the steep mountain climb with ease because they know that the yaks can carry the weight.

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According to Stark, what were some of the goods, both material and nonmaterial, that were traded back and forth on the Silk Road?

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According to Stark, what were some of the goods, both material and nonmaterial, that were traded back and forth on the Silk Road?

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"The most famous of these packets of goods traveling along the Silk Road contained, as you might guess, silk. The Chinese had invented this luxurious fabric around 2700 BCE (or earlier) and managed to keep the manufacturing process secret for millennia, closely guarding the silkworm that spins a cocoon of the finest filament the silk thread. Unraveled from the cocoon, and woven together, the silk threads formed a fabric so soft, so sheer, so refined, that kings and queens, dukes and duchesses, wealthy people of the ancient world, were willing to pay extraordinary prices to possess this luxury good that traveled from hand to hand, caravan to caravan, all the way from China to Europe".