MONDAY, FEB 27TH, 2012 Welcome Back!

WORD OF THE DAY Trade -n.

1. an exchange of property usually without use of money; transaction

MADE IN USA HUNTo All of you have things with you –

clothes, back-packs, pens, binders, shoes, etc. Look at your things and see if you can find a “made in the USA” label. How many “Made in USA” labels did you find?

How many “Made in China”? Any others?

o Write down the countries of origin that you find on the products you have with you.

GLOBAL PATTERNS?o Using a world map, let’s track where things are

from…

GLOBAL PATTERNS?o What Patterns do you see? Why do you think things

look like this?

WHAT IS A TRADE ROUTE?

A route used by traveling traders, such as in a caravan, or with merchant ships

WHAT HAS SPREAD ALONG TRADE ROUTE1. Disease2. Ideas/Science3. Language4. Goods5. Wealth6. Religion7. Military & other Tech

UNIT 7: COMMERCE AND CULTURE OVERVIEW Over the course of this unit, we will teach and learn about some important pre-modern (500-1500CE) trade routes. Think of these trade routes as early forms of globalization in the sense that goods and culture started to spread around the world. For example, silk production was originally mastered in China, and was eventually copied by farmers in India and SE Asia.

Some of the trade routes we will discover are:

SILK ROAD

INDIAN OCEAN TRADE

TRANS SAHARAN TRADE

PRE COLUMBIAN TRADE ROUTES

A QUICK PRIMER ON IMPORTANT ROUTESTrade routes have developed

since ancient times to transport goods from places of production to places of commerce. Scarce commodities that were only available in certain locations, such as salt or spices, were the biggest driver of trade networks, but once established, these roads also facilitated cultural exchange—including the spread of religion, ideas, knowledge, and sometimes even bacteria. Here are eight that had some influence… Read your selected Trade

A QUICK PRIMER ON IMPORTANT ROUTESDirections:Read the short selection about a particular trade route in world history. Then, answer the following questions in your notebook:1. When did your trade route flourish?2. What good(s) travelled along this route?3. What places/cultures did this route

connect? Who were the specialists? Who were the consumers?

4. Did people other than the manufacturers profit from this trade? Whom?

5. Is this product still traded, today? Or, has it been replaced by another product