The Silk Road: what moved along it, goods and ideas
Grade 6 Social Studies Worksheet - Building Confidence
Circle the best answer.
Jun reads about a network of routes in the chain. What was the Silk Road?
- A network of trade routes
- A market town where silk was sold
- One straight road from China to the sea
- A river that carried silk to the coast
Kira reads that China supplies silk. What does supplies mean in the first box?
Use the picture in question 1.
- Carries news between towns
- Buys goods and keeps them
- Taxes goods at a gate
- Provides goods that others want
Luz reads prosperous in the chain. What does prosperous mean?
Use the picture in question 1.
- Small and quiet
- Successful and wealthy
- Old and ruined
- Strong and walled
Which land supplies the silk in Milo's first chain?
Use the picture in question 1.
- Rome
- Arabia
- Egypt
- China
Ren's first chain has a blank: what happens as traders carry the silk along?
- The trade shrinks to a few traders
- The routes turn into one road
- The trade grows very large
- The silk is used up in China
Tala's first chain has a blank: what happens to the towns along the routes?
- They move to China
- They stop trading
- They grow large and prosperous
- They shrink and empty out
Zee's second chain has a blank: what do people in different lands do?
- They stop using their own ideas
- They learn from each other
- They avoid each other's goods
- They move to one town
Where does the road start in Ari's route note?
- Chang'an
- Dunhuang
- The Hexi Corridor
- The Tianshan Mountains
Which way does the road run from Chang'an, by Bo's route note?
Use the picture in question 8.
- South, away from Dunhuang
- West, through the Hexi Corridor
- East, toward the sea
- North, to the Tianshan Mountains
What happens past Dunhuang, by Esme's route note?
Use the picture in question 8.
- It runs back to Chang'an
- It splits north and south of the mountains
- It ends at the town
- It joins one wall to another