Trade Networks, Epidemics & Historical Explanation — Practice · Grade 6 Social Studies

Chapter: Connections Across Africa, Asia & Europe

What this practice covers

By the end of Trade Networks, Epidemics & Historical Explanation you should be able to:

10 questions, written answer, each with a worked explanation.

Vocabulary used: network, Yersinia pestis, vector, scapegoating, mechanism.

Problem 1

Define a network and its evidence. Does a map line prove a pathogen traveled that exact segment?
Answer and explanation

No. It is a possibility to test with additional historical/scientific evidence.

No. It is a possibility to test with additional historical/scientific evidence.

Response criteria

  • Answer the actual question with accurate details.
  • Explain how the evidence or language choice supports the conclusion.
  • State a relevant limit, alternative or justified revision.

Problem 2

Distinguish mechanism and blame. How should a source falsely blaming a minority be used?
Answer and explanation

As evidence of accusation and power, checked against other evidence—not repeated as the disease’s cause.

As evidence of accusation and power, checked against other evidence—not repeated as the disease’s cause.

Response criteria

  • Answer the actual question with accurate details.
  • Explain how the evidence or language choice supports the conclusion.
  • State a relevant limit, alternative or justified revision.

Problem 3

Compare effects and responses. Did every survivor gain equal freedom?
Answer and explanation

No. Institutional responses and status shaped outcomes.

No. Institutional responses and status shaped outcomes.

Response criteria

  • Answer the actual question with accurate details.
  • Explain how the evidence or language choice supports the conclusion.
  • State a relevant limit, alternative or justified revision.

Problem 4

Evaluate a multi-cause account. What improves on “trade caused everything”?
Answer and explanation

A specific mechanism, dated evidence, alternative factors and differentiated consequences.

A specific mechanism, dated evidence, alternative factors and differentiated consequences.

Response criteria

  • Answer the actual question with accurate details.
  • Explain how the evidence or language choice supports the conclusion.
  • State a relevant limit, alternative or justified revision.

Problem 5

State a cautious network inference and reject the unsupported accusation.
Answer and explanation

The sequence is consistent with connected movement but does not uniquely identify a route or intentional cause. Examine transport/ecological evidence and recognize the accusation as unsupported persecution, not a factual mechanism.

The sequence is consistent with connected movement but does not uniquely identify a route or intentional cause. Examine transport/ecological evidence and recognize the accusation as unsupported persecution, not a factual mechanism.

Response criteria

  • Answer the actual question with accurate details.
  • Explain how the evidence or language choice supports the conclusion.
  • State a relevant limit, alternative or justified revision.

Problem 6

Write a three-sentence museum or atlas label explaining this case. Include what is directly supported, one inference and one limit.
Answer and explanation

The sequence is consistent with connected movement but does not uniquely identify a route or intentional cause. Examine transport/ecological evidence and recognize the accusation as unsupported persecution, not a factual mechanism. The label must identify its evidence and avoid turning a model into an authentic artifact.

The sequence is consistent with connected movement but does not uniquely identify a route or intentional cause. Examine transport/ecological evidence and recognize the accusation as unsupported persecution, not a factual mechanism. The label must identify its evidence and avoid turning a model into an authentic artifact.

Response criteria

  • Answer the actual question with accurate details.
  • Explain how the evidence or language choice supports the conclusion.
  • State a relevant limit, alternative or justified revision.

Problem 7

A writer claims the supplied case proves the same thing happened everywhere in the Eastern Hemisphere. Repair the scope and identify a useful next comparison.
Answer and explanation

The sequence is consistent with connected movement but does not uniquely identify a route or intentional cause. Examine transport/ecological evidence and recognize the accusation as unsupported persecution, not a factual mechanism. Limit the conclusion to the named evidence; compare a different dated setting using the same categories before widening it.

The sequence is consistent with connected movement but does not uniquely identify a route or intentional cause. Examine transport/ecological evidence and recognize the accusation as unsupported persecution, not a factual mechanism. Limit the conclusion to the named evidence; compare a different dated setting using the same categories before widening it.

Response criteria

  • Answer the actual question with accurate details.
  • Explain how the evidence or language choice supports the conclusion.
  • State a relevant limit, alternative or justified revision.

Problem 8

Which source or observation would most improve this explanation? Explain the information it could add and a limitation it would still have.
Answer and explanation

As evidence of accusation and power, checked against other evidence—not repeated as the disease’s cause. A useful new source addresses the missing information directly. Explain its provenance, access or scale; do not assume a second source answers every question.

As evidence of accusation and power, checked against other evidence—not repeated as the disease’s cause. A useful new source addresses the missing information directly. Explain its provenance, access or scale; do not assume a second source answers every question.

Response criteria

  • Answer the actual question with accurate details.
  • Explain how the evidence or language choice supports the conclusion.
  • State a relevant limit, alternative or justified revision.

Problem 9

Using the assigned chapter reader, connect this topic to another named society or period. Give one similarity and one difference using matched categories.
Answer and explanation

Use two specifically located details from the chapter reader and distinguish period, source purpose and scale. A specific mechanism, dated evidence, alternative factors and differentiated consequences.

Use two specifically located details from the chapter reader and distinguish period, source purpose and scale. A specific mechanism, dated evidence, alternative factors and differentiated consequences.

Response criteria

  • Answer the actual question with accurate details.
  • Explain how the evidence or language choice supports the conclusion.
  • State a relevant limit, alternative or justified revision.

Problem 10

Revise your response to the whole-unit case after checking the fourth teaching part. State exactly what you changed and why.
Answer and explanation

The sequence is consistent with connected movement but does not uniquely identify a route or intentional cause. Examine transport/ecological evidence and recognize the accusation as unsupported persecution, not a factual mechanism. The revision note must quote or reproduce the changed claim and explain its improved accuracy.

The sequence is consistent with connected movement but does not uniquely identify a route or intentional cause. Examine transport/ecological evidence and recognize the accusation as unsupported persecution, not a factual mechanism. The revision note must quote or reproduce the changed claim and explain its improved accuracy.

Response criteria

  • Answer the actual question with accurate details.
  • Explain how the evidence or language choice supports the conclusion.
  • State a relevant limit, alternative or justified revision.

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