Номер 5, страница 147 - гдз по английскому языку 8 класс учебник Комарова, Ларионова

Across the curriculum. Design - номер 5, страница 147.

Условие.

The Silk Road

5 Look at the map and read the text about the Silk Road. Answer the questions.

For thousands of years, caravans of traders and merchants travelled between Asia and Europe buying and selling products. Huge caravans of camels travelled slowly along the 8000 km route towards the East carrying gold and glass to China and then travelled back towards the West carrying silk and other products. This overland route was called the Silk Road because it was the route that silk travelled from China to Europe.

The overland trading routes between the East and West developed around 300 BC. The popularity of silk in the Roman and Byzantine Empires increased trade along the routes.

Great cosmopolitan cities grew up along the routes where different cultures, religions, ideas and languages were found.

The Silk Road became less important when traders started to carry their products by sea. Trading ships carried products and the overland Silk Road route was used less.

EUROPE

Rome

Constantinople

Athens

Alexandria

Antioch

Bagdad

Samarkand

Dunhuang

CHINA

Guangzhou

1 The Silk Road was the trading route between which two places?

2 How did traders transport their products?

3 What products travelled between West and East?

4 When did the overland trade first develop?

5 Why did the Silk Road become less important?

Решение 1.

Решение 2.

Решение 3.

5 Посмотрите на карту и прочитайте текст о Шелковом пути. Ответьте на вопросы.

Ответ:

1 The Silk Road was the trading route between China and Europe.

Шелковый путь был торговым маршрутом между Китаем и Европой.

2 Traders transported their products by camel caravans.

Торговцы перевозили свои товары на верблюжьих караванах.

3 Gold and glass travelled from West to East (to China), and silk and other products travelled from East to West (from China to Europe).

Золото и стекло путешествовали с Запада на Восток (в Китай), а шелк и другие товары — с Востока на Запад (из Китая в Европу).

4 The overland trade first developed around 300 BC.

Сухопутная торговля впервые развилась около 300 года до нашей эры.

5 The Silk Road became less important because traders started to carry their products by sea.

Шелковый путь стал менее важным, потому что торговцы начали перевозить свои товары по морю.