[ 343 ] Geography and the World GED ® TEST SOCIAL STUDIES FLASH REVIEW • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • What is the best conclusion based on the map and the poem? “When in April the sweet showers fall And pierce the drought of March to the root. . . . Then people long to go on pilgrimages And pilgrims long to seek strange strands Of far-off shrines in distant lands.” —Geoffrey Chaucer, Prologue to The Canterbury Tales [c. 1380s] Medieval Trade Routes in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries a. Religious journeys involved travel to distant places. b. Christians and Muslims avoided trading with each other. c. Most medieval travel was for religious reasons. d. People rarely traveled in the Middle Ages.