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1. MONDAY, FEB 27TH,
2012
Welcome Back!

2. WORD OF THE DAY
Trade -n.
1. an exchange of property usually without use of
money; transaction

3. MADE IN USA HUNT
o 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.

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

5. GLOBAL PATTERNS?
o What Patterns do you see? Why do you think things
look like this?

6. WHAT IS A TRADE ROUTE?
A route used by traveling traders, such as in a
caravan, or with merchant ships

7. WHAT HAS SPREAD ALONG
TRADE ROUTE
1. Disease
2. Ideas/Science
3. Language
4. Goods
5. Wealth
6. Religion
7. Military & other Tech

8. 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:

9. SILK ROAD

10. INDIAN OCEAN TRADE

11. TRANS SAHARAN TRADE

12. PRE
COLUMBIAN
TRADE
ROUTES

13. 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

14. 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Or, has it been replaced by another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