Question

1.
Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follows:
01. The ancient Silk Road is the world's oldest trading route and link between the East and the West.
It was a network of trade routes between Asia and Europe connecting China with Syria and other
points. The Silk Road stopped serving as a shipping route for silk in around 1400AD. It was Ferdinand
von Richthofen, the German geographer, who labelled this network of primary and secondary
overland routes of commercial and cultural exchanges across Central Asia, the “Silk Route"
(Seidenstraße).
02. The primary trade route between China and West, it was a 4,000-mile caravan route through South
Asia and the Middle East. The Silk Road was also a route for the exchange of information and ideas.
Buddhism travelled from the Indian subcontinent to China by the Silk Road. Very few people
travelled the entire length of this Road. Goods passed from one trader to another in short segments.
Trade resembled a chain, with each trader and segment of the trade route representing a link in the
trade. The Silk Road was often very dangerous to travel on. Muslim Turks seized much of the land
along it in the 10th century. Mongol armies used the Silk Road in the 13th century to expand their
empire.
03. The Silk Road lost its importance after Vasco de Gama circumnavigated Africa to find a water
route to India. It then became easier to travel between Europe and China by sea.
04. Many artifacts demonstrate long-distance trade connections and cultural transmissions between
China, Khotan on the southern Silk Route, and the north-western frontiers of the Indian subcontinent.
Khotan was the regional, commercial and religious centre of the southwestern Tarim Basin (China) as
well as a connecting point between China, India, western Central Asia, and Iran. Fragments of finely
woven tabby silk from China reflect long-distance trade or attribute relations with Khotan during the
3rd or early 4th centuries AD. Long-distance trade in highly valued Buddhist items (such as
manuscripts, small sculptures, miniature stupas) prefigured later connections between Buddhist
communities in Khotan and Gilgit.
05. The economic prosperity of agricultural oases and trading centres on the southern Silk Route
enabled Buddhist communities to establish stupas and monasteries. Buddhist sculptures from Miran
and Khotan display many similarities with the artistic traditions of Gandhara, Swat, and Kashmir in
the India subcontinent. Mural paintings at Miran reflect ties with both the art of western Central Asia
and northwest India. Meanwhile, administrative documents found at Niya, Endere, and Lou-lan
written in the Gandhari language and Kharosthi script demonstrate linguistic and cultural ties between
the southern Silk Route oases and the northwestern Indian subcontinent in the 3rd and 4th centuries
AD. In fact, monks and merchants travelling on the northern and southern Silk Routes were
responsible for maintaining commercial, religious and cultural contacts between India, Central Asia
and China.
Source : HT Horizons
On the basis of the reading of the above passage, answer the following questions briefly:
01. Why was Silk Road important in olden times?
02. When did the Silk Road stop serving as a shipping route?
03. Apart from trade which other things the Silk Route served?
04. How was Silk Road considered then?
05. When did the Silk Road lose its importance?
06. What is the significance of Khotan?
07. How do we know about the long distance trade connections between East and West?
08. Who were responsible for commercial, religious and cultural contacts between India, Central Asia
and China?​

Answer 1

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