Ancient Trade and Diseases

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Across
  1. 1. Emperor Justinian of the Byzantine (Eastern Roman) Empire wanted silk and was willing to steal its secrets from China – this was an early example of industrial _______________.
  2. 5. A group of merchants traveling together with pack animals to transport goods.
  3. 8. Merchants built and supported _____________ along the trade routes for monks who then prayed for them.
  4. 13. Scientists who study disease outbreaks.
  5. 15. The _______ domesticated the silk worm about 4000 BCE and were the masters of silk production for thousands of years.
  6. 16. The silk road spread many ___________, such as measles, smallpox, the plague.
  7. 19. Silk is produced by _____________ that live on mulberry trees.
Down
  1. 1. This viral disease found in Africa now may have been responsible for the Athenian Plague in about 500 BCE. It is an RNA based virus and a bad, bloody way to die.
  2. 2. Trade at a worldwide scale – even more than the silk road – that moves goods and ideas around the world. Some good effects and some not so good.
  3. 3. This spiral bacteria may have been the cause of the ”Great Dying” among Native Americans in New England.
  4. 4. The _____ decline happened about 4000 BCE, emptied new cities, and killed off a large percentage of the people in the late stone age. It may have been caused by the black death if it was caused by disease.
  5. 6. The silk road was not a single road, but it was a ________ of many routes including trails, roads, and sea routes.
  6. 7. Diseases that come from other animals and then infect humans. This accounts for at least 75% of viral diseases.
  7. 9. While we like to think that human agency is responsible for our history, but _________ has shaped our history as long as there have been people.
  8. 10. The silk road spread many goods, but more importantly it spread ideas and ___________ such as Buddhism.
  9. 11. The Global ______ Project is gathering information about viruses, their animal hosts, and their characteristics so that we can save human lives.
  10. 12. This disease came from cattle around 800 or 1000 years ago and it isn’t smallpox.
  11. 14. The __________ plague (named after the emperor at the time) swept through Constantinople - causing 5,000 to 10,000 deaths every day. This was likely the Bubonic Plague caused by the bacteria Yersinia pestis – the Black Plague or the Black Death.
  12. 17. The silk road dramatically increased the ____________ of civilizations across Afro Eurasia.
  13. 18. This disease was a huge killer before it was eradicated in the 1970s.