5th Grade Chapter 3 Social Studies

What is a long spoken tale repeated from one generation to the next?

• emperor

• astrolabe

• saga

Period of time that marked a new beginning in arts and sciences and a desire to learn more about the world was called?

• Mediterranean

• Renissance

• Middle Ages

What is a tool used by sailors to determine their direction at sea?

• navigation

• magnetic compass

• pilgrimage

What is a group of traders traveling together called?

• Friends

• Groupies

• caravan

What is the buying and selling of human beings called?

• slave trade

• emperor

• sale of humans

What is a journey taken for religious reasons called?

• joyous journey

• pilgrimage

• astrolabe

The ruler of an empire is called a?

• King

• emperor

• pueblos

What is a tool that uses the sun and stars to find a location based on it's distance from the equator?

• sun dial

• astrolabe

• magnetic compass

Why did Marco Polo go to China?

• to say he traveled the Silk Road

• to see a new land and it's people

• to bring back trade goods from China

• to visit the emperor

What places did the Silk Road connect?

• only China and Africa

• China and other lands

• only Italy and India

• Italy and other lands