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title: Trade: why people swap, and the great trade routes — the lesson's questions with trees and pragmatics · History
description: The 15 test and exam questions of lesson 70 «Trade: why people swap, and the great trade routes» of the history 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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# Trade: why people swap, and the great trade routes

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The 15 questions of lesson 70 «Trade: why people swap, and the great trade routes» of the history course of Mova's primary school with their options, 87 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/history/70-trade-why-people-swap-and-the-great-trade-routes/).

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- [t1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/70-trade-why-people-swap-and-the-great-trade-routes/t1/) — Leo asks how obsidian got hundreds of km before cars. What does it show? — wrong ✗
- [t2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/70-trade-why-people-swap-and-the-great-trade-routes/t2/) — «silk road = one long motorway» says Mei's mate. Mei: nah, that's cap. Why? — wrong ✗
- [t3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/70-trade-why-people-swap-and-the-great-trade-routes/t3/) — Amina says Mansa Musa was the richest man ever, innit. What do we know for sure? — wrong ✗
- [t4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/70-trade-why-people-swap-and-the-great-trade-routes/t4/) — Hassan's uncle says his ancestors sailed with the monsoon winds. What would happen if a sailor ignored the season? — right ✓
- [t5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/70-trade-why-people-swap-and-the-great-trade-routes/t5/) — Finn asks why Lübeck is so fancy. What is the best answer? — wrong ✗
- [t6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/70-trade-why-people-swap-and-the-great-trade-routes/t6/) — Zeynep says the Grand Bazaar is older than America as a country. Right? — right ✓
- [t7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/70-trade-why-people-swap-and-the-great-trade-routes/t7/) — Charlie reads that spices hid rotten meat. What would his mum say? — right ✓
- [t8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/70-trade-why-people-swap-and-the-great-trade-routes/t8/) — Josh has loads of Messi, Leo loads of Ronaldo. What happens if they swap? — wrong ✗
- [t9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/70-trade-why-people-swap-and-the-great-trade-routes/t9/) — In EU4 trade just flows between nodes on the map. In real life, how do most goods move today? — right ✓
- [t10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/70-trade-why-people-swap-and-the-great-trade-routes/t10/) — Mia's T-shirt says Made in Bangladesh, but the cotton came from India. What is true? — wrong ✗
- [t11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/70-trade-why-people-swap-and-the-great-trade-routes/t11/) — Oliver asks if Fairtrade fixes everything. What is fair to say? — wrong ✗
- [e1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/70-trade-why-people-swap-and-the-great-trade-routes/e1/) — Identify the substance traded over long distances more than ten thousand years ago, prior to the emergence of cities. — wrong ✗ · exam
- [e2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/70-trade-why-people-swap-and-the-great-trade-routes/e2/) — Which of the following statements most accurately characterises the so-called Silk Road? — right ✓ · exam
- [e3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/70-trade-why-people-swap-and-the-great-trade-routes/e3/) — Select the response consistent with the established facts concerning the Indian Ocean trade. — wrong ✗ · exam
- [e4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/history/70-trade-why-people-swap-and-the-great-trade-routes/e4/) — Ascertain the innovation introduced by Malcom McLean in 1956 that greatly reduced the cost of shipping. — right ✓ · exam

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