Tang and Song China deep-dive with Chinese own-voice sources
Exercise
Difficulty 3
~2 min
hist.g3.s.ex_30
Open Response
Prompt
True or false: Marco Polo discovered China. Explain your answer.
How it's presented
mode
card
prompt audio ID
audio.g3s.ex 30.stem
Answer criteria
type
open response
rubric
Identifies FALSE; explains that Marco Polo was a European VISITOR to a long-established Tang/Song-era imperial civilization in the late 13th century; China was a thousand-year-old civilization long before he arrived
Hints
- Look at lesson 12 framing.
- Tang began in 618 CE; Marco Polo visited c. 1275.
Misconceptions to watch
- Accepting 'true' (Eurocentric framing the unit refutes)
- Saying 'Marco Polo was not real' (he was real - just not a 'discoverer')
Used in lessons