Silk Roads: Intermediaries, Ideas & Institutions — Drills · Grade 9 Social Studies
Chapter: Trade Networks, Empires & DisruptionWhat these drills covers
By the end of Silk Roads: Intermediaries, Ideas & Institutions you should be able to:
- I can explain relay trade.
- I can explain a historical connection using relevant evidence and qualify the conclusion.
4 questions, written answer, each with a worked explanation.
Vocabulary used: context, evidence, interpretation, intermediary, provenance.
Problem 1
Answer and explanation
A distant object shows a connection but not necessarily direct travel between its origin and findspot. Investigate intermediate markets, dates, and routes. Goods, techniques, and people can move at different speeds and through different connections.
Problem 2
Answer and explanation
No empire made every route safe at all times. Compare the place, date, fees, and security arrangements in a particular account. A claim about easier travel should state a baseline and not erase conquest or burdens imposed on local populations.
Problem 3
Answer and explanation
Translation involves interpretation and adaptation, not only transporting unchanged words. A text’s presence does not identify every resident’s belief. Compare patrons, language, use, and manuscript dates to explain how ideas circulated in local settings.
Problem 4
Answer and explanation
Use the object’s production date and the date of its deposition separately. A later collection location is not an ancient trade destination. Material patterns across dated sites provide a stronger network claim than one object without context.