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CLSM · World History · Progress Check 1
The Silk Road
Read the situation. Connect the ideas. Show how you know.
Name ___________________________Class __________ Date __________
01 Recall, then make a connection.
Network
Intermediary
Adaptation
Use network and intermediary to explain how an object could move without one traveler completing the whole journey. What does adaptation add to an account of cultural exchange?
Read the situation.
The Silk Roads were a changing network of land and sea connections, not one highway from one endpoint to another. Goods often passed through several merchants. Travelers carried languages, religious practices, techniques, and stories along with their cargo. Communities adopted and adapted these influences rather than simply copying them unchanged.
02 Organize the information.
Count the practice route
Fictional map: Oasis A to Town B costs 3 travel tokens; Town B to Port C costs 4; Oasis A to Pass D costs 5; Pass D to Port C costs 5. These tokens are invented, not historical prices.
How many tokens does the route through Town B require?
Answer: __________________ tokens
Show the calculation, then explain what the result tells you in this model.
CLSM · World History · Progress Check 1
What does the evidence show?
The Silk Road
03 Follow the evidence.
Contact is not sameness
A display argues that cultural exchange made all connected communities identical.
Select all evidence that challenges this interpretation.
Local artists combine an imported motif with an established regional style.
A translated text uses local language and explanatory terms.
A trader records that a package arrived.
A map shows two connected ports.
Name the useful records and explain how they answer the claim.
04 Apply the idea.
The map claim
A museum label says every Silk Road trader traveled all the way from China to the Mediterranean. The briefing describes exchanges involving several merchants and connected routes.
Which correction best fits?
Goods and ideas could move through many intermediaries without one person traveling the entire network.
Every merchant used exactly the same road.
Only silk moved between regions.
Choose a conclusion and explain why it fits the situation.
05 Carry the idea forward.
Write an exhibit panel showing how a trade network can change a community without making every community the same. Include one material exchange, one cultural exchange, and one limit of the route model.