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.
- Buys goods and keeps them
- Provides goods that others want
- Taxes goods at a gate
- Carries news between towns
Luz reads prosperous in the chain. What does prosperous mean?
Use the picture in question 1.
- Strong and walled
- Successful and wealthy
- Small and quiet
- Old and ruined
Which land supplies the silk in Milo's first chain?
Use the picture in question 1.
- Egypt
- Arabia
- Rome
- China
In Noah's first chain, which box comes right after traders carry the silk?
Use the picture in question 1.
- The towns grow smaller
- China supplies silk to lands far away
- Silk stops being made
- The trade grows to a massive scale
In Pia's second chain, who travels back and forth along the routes?
- Silk traders and no one else
- Rulers and their families
- Farmers who stay at home
- Traders and artisans
Ren's first chain has a blank: what happens as traders carry the silk along?
- The routes turn into one road
- The silk is used up in China
- The trade grows very large
- The trade shrinks to a few traders
Tala's first chain has a blank: what happens to the towns along the routes?
- They shrink and empty out
- They stop trading
- They move to China
- They grow large and prosperous
Where does the road start in Ari's route note?
- Dunhuang
- Chang'an
- 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 9.
- North, to the Tianshan Mountains
- South, away from Dunhuang
- East, toward the sea
- West, through the Hexi Corridor