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title: The Silk Road — the lesson's questions with trees and pragmatics · Geography
description: The 15 test and exam questions of lesson 28 «The Silk Road» of the geography course of Mova's primary school, each with its options, Mova's choice and the right answer, every sentence with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# The Silk Road

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The 15 questions of lesson 28 «The Silk Road» of the geography course of Mova's primary school with their options, 80 sentences, every one parsed by Mova with its syntax tree and pragmatics. How the student did on them: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/geography/28-the-silk-road/).

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- [t1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/28-the-silk-road/t1/) — Did traders in 1300 call it the Silk Road? — right ✓
- [t2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/28-the-silk-road/t2/) — My mate thinks the Silk Road was one big straight road like a motorway. Fix it. — right ✓
- [t3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/28-the-silk-road/t3/) — Why were camels better than horses for crossing deserts? — right ✓
- [t4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/28-the-silk-road/t4/) — Why did cities grow at oases? — right ✓
- [t5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/28-the-silk-road/t5/) — How can trade spread a disease? — right ✓
- [t6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/28-the-silk-road/t6/) — Leo starts the game in 1337 and thinks the Mongol Empire is still one giant state. Put him right. — right ✓
- [t7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/28-the-silk-road/t7/) — Why did the Mongols make travel easier? — right ✓
- [t8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/28-the-silk-road/t8/) — A teacher says Marco Polo's book is exact in every detail. Is that right? — right ✓
- [t9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/28-the-silk-road/t9/) — What would happen to Samarkand if caravans stopped coming? — wrong ✗
- [t10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/28-the-silk-road/t10/) — Why did sea routes take over from the Silk Road? — wrong ✗
- [t11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/28-the-silk-road/t11/) — According to a well-known story, monks smuggled something to the Byzantine Empire in the 500s. What? — wrong ✗
- [e1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/28-the-silk-road/e1/) — Identify the principal reason for which silk commanded a high price in the Roman world. — wrong ✗ · exam
- [e2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/28-the-silk-road/e2/) — Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the routes hereinafter designated the Silk Road? — right ✓ · exam
- [e3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/28-the-silk-road/e3/) — Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the diminished importance of the overland routes after about 1500. — wrong ✗ · exam
- [e4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/geography/28-the-silk-road/e4/) — It is given that the designation "Silk Road" was not employed by medieval merchants. Ascertain its origin. — right ✓ · exam

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