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6th grade The Silk Road: what moved along it, goods and ideas worksheet

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The Silk Road: what moved along it, goods and ideas

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Circle the best answer.

  1. Few people travel the entire route, in Zee's second chain. Which two effects follow?

    • Middlemen appear, and merchants pass goods on
    • Roads improve, and one government keeps them up
    • One merchant carries each good from end to end
    • Robbers vanish, and caravans stop forming

  2. The Han emperor wants the horses, in Ari's chain. Which goods travel east, and which travel west?

    • East: nothing. West: silk alone
    • East: horses and glassware. West: nothing
    • East: silk and more. West: horses and glassware
    • East: horses and glassware. West: silk and more

  3. Which box in Bo's first chain has two arrows going out?

    • Few people travel the entire route
    • The routes stretch across deserts and mountains
    • Goods pass from one merchant to the next
    • Middlemen and trading posts appear

  5. Esme writes about the plague chain. Which sentence stays careful?

    • Furs held flea eggs, and the matter is settled
    • Silk carried the plague to Italy
    • Traders knew their furs held plague
    • One theory says furs held flea eggs

  6. Which claim about the Black Death and the routes fits the sources best, Jun asks?

    Use the picture in question 4.

    • The routes had nothing to do with the spread
    • The Silk Road caused the Black Death by itself
    • Some research suggests it spread along them
    • Historians agree on each step of its long path

  7. Which sentence about the Silk Road is careful, Kira asks?

    • A network, and few people traveled all of it
    • One person carried the silk all the way across
    • Every trader crossed Asia from one end to the other
    • One government built and kept up the whole road

  8. By Milo's chain and route note, where does the report on strong horses come from?

    • The Gobi Desert, north of China
    • The Pamir Mountains, east of China
    • Ferghana, due west of China
    • Italy, across the sea

  9. By Noah's chain and route note, how do the furs travel after the port in the Middle East?

    • By ship to port cities in Italy
    • By caravan back to Central Asia
    • They stay in the port
    • By road east to China

  10. Ren's note says, "Only silk traveled along the routes." Which fix is right?

    • Change "silk" to "horses"
    • Leave it: silk was the one good that moved
    • Change "routes" to "rivers"
    • Change it: goods traveled both ways

  11. Tala's note says, "The chain proves the plague came along the Silk Road." Which fix is right?

    • Change "Silk Road" to "Roman road"
    • Leave it: the chain confirms each step of the path
    • Change it: it shows one theory, not proof
    • Change "plague" to "silk"
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The Silk Road: what moved along it, goods and ideas. Every version has 10 questions, and the answer key prints on the second page.

What your child will learn

  • I can follow silk, paper, horses, glass and ideas along the Silk Road and say which way each one traveled.
  • I can read a short route note beside a cause and effect chain and find a place, a direction or a distance.
  • I can tell a careful sentence about the Silk Road, such as one theory of how plague spread, from one that says too much.

Standard: D2.Geo.7.6-8

Common mistakes

Your child chose a claim that says more than the sources show. Try asking your child to check each word of the claim against the chain.

Your child treated a theory or a range as settled. Try asking your child to look for words such as theory, suggests and around.

Your child left a note unchanged when it needed a fix. Try asking your child to check each word of the note against the chain.

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Your child chose a claim that says more than the sources show. Try asking your child to check each word of the claim against the chain.

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