Across
- 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 _______________.
- 5. A group of merchants traveling together with pack animals to transport goods.
- 8. Merchants built and supported _____________ along the trade routes for monks who then prayed for them.
- 13. Scientists who study disease outbreaks.
- 15. The _______ domesticated the silk worm about 4000 BCE and were the masters of silk production for thousands of years.
- 16. The silk road spread many ___________, such as measles, smallpox, the plague.
- 19. Silk is produced by _____________ that live on mulberry trees.
Down
- 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. 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. This spiral bacteria may have been the cause of the ”Great Dying” among Native Americans in New England.
- 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.
- 6. The silk road was not a single road, but it was a ________ of many routes including trails, roads, and sea routes.
- 7. Diseases that come from other animals and then infect humans. This accounts for at least 75% of viral diseases.
- 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.
- 10. The silk road spread many goods, but more importantly it spread ideas and ___________ such as Buddhism.
- 11. The Global ______ Project is gathering information about viruses, their animal hosts, and their characteristics so that we can save human lives.
- 12. This disease came from cattle around 800 or 1000 years ago and it isn’t smallpox.
- 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.
- 17. The silk road dramatically increased the ____________ of civilizations across Afro Eurasia.
- 18. This disease was a huge killer before it was eradicated in the 1970s.