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Trade Routes and Empries

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which trade pattern shown connected Asia to the Mediterranean

basin?

a)

Silk Road

b)

Trans-Saharan

c)

Indian Ocean

d)

Black Sea Trade

2.

Which trade pattern shown existed around 1000 to 1500 A.D.

(C.E.) in Africa?

a)

Maritime Routes

b)

Trans-Saharan Routes

c)

Silk Routes

d)

Black Sea

3.

New technology such as the windmill and the waterwheel spread

mainly from –

a)

South America

b)

North America

c)

Middle East

d)

Africa

4.

The most valued items were spices that were used for many

purposes. The spice trade mainly revolved lands near the –

a)

Indian Ocean

b)

Baltic Sea

c)

Rivers in Europe

d)

Atlantic Ocean

5.

Religious ideas diffused across trade routes. For example,

Buddhism spread from China influencing-

a)

Middle East

b)

West Africa

c)

Korea and Japan

d)

Latin America

6.

Originally, the technology of paper was brought to the Muslims

from –

a)

India

b)

China

c)

West Africa

d)

Southeast Asia

7.

India was the origin of--

a)

New crop Sugar Cane

b)

Waterwheels

c)

Compass

d)

Porcelian

8.

The ideas of which religion spread from the Arabian Peninsula to

parts of West Africa, and then to Central and Southeast Asia?

a)

Hinduism

b)

Buddhism

c)

Islam

d)

Shinto

9.

Which Asian archipelago is being described?

Characteristics:

• Mountainous

• Four main islands

• Surrounding seas provided protection and

trade routes

a)

Korea

b)

Japan

c)

China

d)

Vietnam

10.

Which religion is indigenous to Japan and has been able to

coexist with Buddhism?

a)

Islam

b)

Judaism

c)

Hinduism

d)

Shinto

11.

Which mainly influenced the pagoda architecture shown in

Japan?

a)

Astronomy practices from Africa

b)

Islam spread by Indian traders

c)

Code of the samurai

d)

Buddhism from China

12.

The “X” on the map identifies the location of the Sea of Japan.

Another name that identifies this sea is -

a)

Red Sea

b)

East Sea

c)

Black Sea

d)

East China Sea

13.

Genghis Khan was the 13th-century warrior in central Asia who

founded which great empire?

a)

Incan

b)

Egyptian

c)

Mongol

d)

Mughal

14.

Between 1236 and 1241, which group invaded Russia along with

surrounding areas creating a political entity that ruled the region

for more than 150 years?

a)

Armies of Alexander the Great

b)

Roman legions

c)

Spartan warriors

d)

The Golden Horde

15.

"Monday, 17 September. Steered west and sailed, day and night,

...The pilots took the sun’s amplitude (directions), and found that the needles varied to the northwest a whole point of the compass.

-from the journal of Christopher Columbus, 1492"

According to this quotation, explorers relied on technology that

originated in –

a)

China

b)

Arabia

c)

Italy

d)

Spain