Monday, January 27

Today’s Learning: How did ancient China contribute to global trade?

Warm Up: Please find your Afroeurasian Trade Map; we need to add to it today.

Class Work: Use pp 152-153 in the atlas on your table to help you locate and label the following cities on your Afroeurasian Trade Map:

• Baghdad 
• Beijing 
• Mumbai 
• Kashgar (Kashi, p. 168, NDA)

On the Afroeurasian Trade Chart, for “Goods Produced” and “Asia”, write:

• Silk
• Gunpowder
• Cotton
• Spices
• Livestock

In the box on the chart for “Trade Routes” and “Asia”, write:

• Beijing to Kashgar (land)
• Kashgar to Baghdad (land)
• Beijing to Mumbai (sea)
• Kashgar to Constantinople (land)

Then, use a colored pencil to trace those routes, using dashed green lines for land routes and solid blue lines for sea routes.

“If I had a million dollars (x 100)…”: Imagine you won $100 million dollars today. What is the FIRST thing you would do with your new-found wealth? Please respond to this scenario on p. 21 of your notebook quietly and independently.

Standard 5.4 Wealth presentation/discussion.

Close read – underline, highlight, annotate – Trans-Saharan Trade. Then compare Trans-Saharan trade with other trade routes we’ve studied. In what ways were Trans-Saharan trade methods, locations, goods, ideas, etc., alike and different. Write your response on p. 21 of your notebook.