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Trade Routes LITERACY · 4TH GRADE Name Date Read the passage, then answer the questions below. A trade route is a path that goods travel often enough for towns, ports, and protection to grow up along it. The Silk Road carried silk, paper, and ideas between China and the Mediterranean; the trans-Saharan routes carried gold north and salt south; the Indian Ocean routes moved spices with the monsoon winds. Routes shifted whenever a new technology or a new power changed the cost of travel, which is why the opening of an Atlantic sea route to Asia weakened the overland caravan trade. Along with goods, routes carried religion, writing systems, and disease, so their effects reached far beyond the merchants who used them. Control of a route was worth fighting for, because whoever held it could tax everything that passed. Questions: 1 What made a path into a trade route? 2 What did the trans-Saharan routes carry in each direction? 3 Why was control of a trade route worth fighting for? www.littleactivity.com 4th Grade · Literacy
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Trade Routes LITERACY · 4TH GRADE Name Date Read the passage, then answer the questions below. A trade route is a path that goods travel often enough for towns, ports, and protection to grow up along it. The Silk Road carried silk, paper, and ideas between China and the Mediterranean; the trans-Saharan routes carried gold north and salt south; the Indian Ocean routes moved spices with the monsoon winds. Routes shifted whenever a new technology or a new power changed the cost of travel, which is why the opening of an Atlantic sea route to Asia weakened the overland caravan trade. Along with goods, routes carried religion, writing systems, and disease, so their effects reached far beyond the merchants who used them. Control of a route was worth fighting for, because whoever held it could tax everything that passed. Questions: 1 What made a path into a trade route? 2 What did the trans-Saharan routes carry in each direction? 3 Why was control of a trade route worth fighting for? www.littleactivity.com 4th Grade · Literacy
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