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A. Listen and answer the following questions. Note taking
1. What is the main idea of the passage? Topic :
the end of the Silk Road
the Roman Empire
the Silk Road Main idea :
ancient China
2. What was the reason that the route finally started to 1 Major point :
st
disappear?
the spread of robbery
the spread of disease
Details :
the lack of goods
the end of dynasties
3. What disease may have spread along the Silk Road?
swine flu
AIDS 2 Major point :
nd
the Black Death
smallpox
Details :
4. What empire did the Silk Road connect China to?
the British Empire
the Ottoman Empire
the Byzantine Empire
the Roman Empire
3 Major point :
rd
B. Check True or False.
1. Technology did not spread along the Silk Details :
Road.
2. The Silk Road aided in the western
expansion of Buddhism.
3. Porcelain was traded along the Silk Road.
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