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7th grade · Social Studies · Unit 3 of 11

Trade Routes & Beliefs

Silk Road, religions and ideas

What your child practices

The Silk Road and Indian Ocean trade, how religions and ideas spread, the Islamic Golden Age, medieval Europe and the Magna Carta, up to about 1450.

Oregon State Standards learning standard: 6/7.G.MM.3; 6/7.H.CC.5 · trade routes after 600 CE and how they spread religions and ideas

Sample questions

A taste of this unit. In the app, questions change every time and get easier or harder to match your child.

  1. Question 1

    Judaism is…

    • A Chinese philosophy
    • A religion of many gods
    • A Roman law
    • One of the oldest religions to worship one God (monotheism)

  2. Question 2

    Christianity is based on the teachings of…

    • The Buddha
    • Confucius
    • Muhammad
    • Jesus

  3. Question 3

    Mecca, in present-day Saudi Arabia, is important in Islam because…

    • It is the holiest city, the place Muslims face to pray
    • Confucius lived there
    • The Buddha taught there
    • Jesus was born there

  4. Question 4

    The Silk Road was…

    • A network of trade routes linking China to the Mediterranean
    • A river in India
    • A wall in China
    • A single paved road in Rome

  5. Question 5

    Serfs were…

    • Peasants bound to work a lord's land
    • Knights
    • Merchants from China
    • Kings

  6. Question 6

    Marco Polo was…

    • A Chinese emperor
    • A merchant from Venice who wrote about travels in China
    • A Maya king
    • A Roman senator

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