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Silk Road Trade & Crusades Analysis

This document contains a mapping activity and questions about the Silk Road and the Crusades. [1] Students are asked to locate cities on the Silk Road and record the goods traded between them using an online map and their textbook. [2] They are then prompted to consider whether the description of Venice as the "gateway to the East" is appropriate. [3] Finally, students must answer questions about the connections between the Crusades and medieval European religion, and how the Crusades may have impacted trade between Europe and the East.

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Silk Road Trade & Crusades Analysis

This document contains a mapping activity and questions about the Silk Road and the Crusades. [1] Students are asked to locate cities on the Silk Road and record the goods traded between them using an online map and their textbook. [2] They are then prompted to consider whether the description of Venice as the "gateway to the East" is appropriate. [3] Finally, students must answer questions about the connections between the Crusades and medieval European religion, and how the Crusades may have impacted trade between Europe and the East.

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Name: _____________________

Mapping the Rise of Trade


The Silk Road
● Use your textbook and the interactive map at the link provided to record information
about the goods traded along the Silk Road
https://en.unesco.org/silkroad/network-silk-road-cities-map-app/en
● Look at the maps provided in your booklet and on Pg. 40 of your textbook to locate
each city

City Country Goods Traded on the Silk Road

Xi’an China

Fatehpur Sikri India

Zanzibar East Africa

Bursa Turkey

Venice Italy

Look at Figure 2-2 on Pg. 40. Italy has been described as the “gateway to the East”
Is this an appropriate metaphor? Explain.
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Zoom In: T
​ he Crusades
Read the Zoom In section on pg. 41 of your textbook and respond to the questions.

Write a Response
1. What connections can you make between the Crusades and what you read in Chapter 1
about the importance of religion in the worldview of medieval Europe?

2. Look at the map of the Crusades and the map of the Silk Road Trade Routes on pg. 40.
What conclusions can you draw about the Crusades that might have affected trade
between Europe and the East?

Practice
3. Look at the map of the Crusades on pg. 41 and compare them to the four maps
provided in your booklet.
a. Where do the Crusades begin?

b. Where do the Crusades end?

c. How long did the Crusades last?

d. Do you notice any patterns in the routes?

For Your Consideration


4. Muslims, Christians, and Jews had managed to share the Holy Land for close to 400
years. What elements of the conflict during the Crusades do you see in the current
tensions of the Middle East?

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