WorksheetsLily's social studies game
Total questions: 29
Worksheet time: 29mins
which explorer traveled on the silk road?
Christopher Columbus
Marco Polo
John Cabot
James Cook
Where was Marco Polo from?
Austin, Texas
Birmingham, Alabama
Venice, Italy
Brooklyn,New York
Marco Polo traveled to which country for silk?
Asia
Canada
England
China
How old was Marco polo when he left for china?
17
27
36
12
Who was china's emperor?
qin shi huang
Kublai khan
yang quang
puiy
what was Marco Polo's goal for traveling on the silk road?
to bring back food, and clothes, for there family's.
to find animals, to bring back to were they came from to help make homes.
to bring back valuable trade goods (silk, tea, spices, and gunpowder)
to find needs to make medicine, to cure people.
where were the vikings from?
Iceland
Scandinavia
Greenland
Venland
which viking discovered vinland?
Thorkell Leif
Leif Ericson
Thorgals Leif
Thorstein Eriksson
Why was it called the silk road?
Because the road was made of silk.
It was a major trade route to china who learned to weave silk.
Because people sold silk on the road.
because it was a road that led to free silk.
what were the 3 Africa trading empires?
Ghana
Mali
Songhai
Zimbabwe
Mansa Musa
Ghana was called the land of?
Love
Jewlery
War
Gold
What was an astrolabe?
An instrument that helped sailors use the sun and stars to find their location in latitude.
A fan
A home for people in there village
fabric to make clothing
Who created the astrolabe?
Jewish
the Chinese
the Indians
Arabs/ Muslims
what is a magnetic compass?
Made it possible for the sailors to determine their direction far out at sea.
the object was magnetic.
an object that people worshiped
a gold object
what was the slave trade?
buying old people to read to there kids
selling farm animals
Buying and selling humans.
selling children to widows
who was in charge of the Chinese Naval fleet?
Christopher W.
Zheng He (china)
James W.
John J.
what is a caravan?
a object that is put on the end of a camel to put objects in.
a group of traders traveling together.
an object that is put on a camel to cary children
an object that villages worship
which religion was practiced in west Africa?
Mexican
Islam
Jewish
Muslim
what were the two major resources traded in Ghana?
salt
silver
food
gold
what is the pilgrimage?
people that go on boats to find food for there villages
A long trip to another city
A journey taken for religious reasons
A trip to move to another place
who went on a pilgrimage?
Musa
Songhia
Ghana
Mali
where did Mana Musa travel to?
Ghana
Mali
Songhai
Mecca
where was Timbukto located?
Ghana
Songhai
Mali
Mecca
what building was used for study and worship in west Africa?
pyramid
hut
Great Mosque
longhouse
what is an emperor?
ruler over an empire
someone who builds homes
a person that will go out and buy food
a person that helps cure people
what are long spoken tales?
story's
sagas
fable
books
who invented the printing press?
Johann Gutenberg
Thomas Edison
David Alter
Alexander graham
what is buying and selling humans?
winning humans
paying a $100 dollars for 1 human
using humans to garden and paying them alot
slave trade
who was the peak empire of Mali?
Gutenberg
Musa
Marco polo
Columbus
