The Story of China - Episode 2: Silk Roads

This Video Response Worksheet and Key is based on the PBS documentary series “The Story of China - Episode 2: Silk Roads and China Ships.”

You will receive a Video Response Worksheet and Key in PDF format.

Video Response Worksheets will turn your history lesson into a rich educational experience that keeps students attentive, engaged, and accountable. The questions are designed so that they occur at a regular pace to keep the students engaged but not overloaded. They are also designed so that a review of the completed worksheet gives students a basic overall summary of the video.

This episode is approximately 55 minutes long.

From the producer:

SERIES DESCRIPTION: Traveling from the Silk Road to the Yellow Sea, Michael Wood explores the history of the world’s newest superpower. A thrilling and moving epic of the world’s oldest continuous state with the landscapes, peoples, and stories that made today’s China.

ABOUT THIS EPISODE: In a tale of fantastic geographical sweep, Michael Wood conjures up China’s first great international age, the Tang Dynasty. From picturesque old cities on the Yellow River he travels to the bazaars of the Silk Road in Central Asia, and on to India in the footsteps of the Chinese monk who brought Buddhist texts to China. He uncovers the coming of Christianity, sails the Grand Canal, and tracks the spread of Chinese culture across East Asia, an influence ‘as profound as Rome on the Latin West’.