What the name is for

A popular book that made the singular form and the romantic image famous

The first scholarly definition of its date range

The discovery of the Dunhuang library cave

The identification of Chinese silk at Palmyra

True

False

It refutes the strong version empirically: the caves still stand and the removed paintings were destroyed

It confirms it, since photographs of them survive

Nothing, because the murals were copies

It shows the murals were never removed at all

It solves the scholarly problem of a split corpus and does not touch ownership or interpretation

It solves ownership by transferring title to China

It solves conservation but not access

It solves nothing, since photographs are useless to scholars

That the land route carried the smaller share of the volume and the value

That much of what moved was tribute, deportation, enslavement and disease rather than trade

That the traffic was episodic rather than continuous

That silk was never actually traded along it

It supplies connotations of antiquity, mutuality and peaceful exchange that the policy would otherwise have to argue for

It has no effect, since the history is unknown to most people

It commits the programme to following the historical routes exactly

It is a legal term with a defined meaning in international law

Create a Eurasian economy: the volumes were far too small to link prices or wages between regions

Transmit Buddhism to China

Carry the plague westward out of Central Asia

Move paper making towards Europe