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1. Bellringer
1. Where was your shirt made? (check tag)
2. What continent is that country on?
3. This man has never heard of the internet.
Describe what happens on it to him.
Atlas
Slates/markets

2. New page of notes:
Topic: trade then and
today
On your slates:
Name 4 retail stores
How are those stores
changing?
Name 4 internet commerce
websites

3. Read comic
• On your slates
A. Type of source? How do you know?
B. list the characters of the comic
C. Contrast how people traded 1000 years ago,
with today in 3 or FEWER sentences

4. The Silk Road
years: c. 1 ~ 1200 AD
In your notes: 7
modern countries
that the Silk Road
went through

5. The Silk Road

6. The Silk Road
Why would they
want these
goods?

7. Trade vocabulary
• Exports
• Goods that leave a country
• From Europe: gold, porcelain, wine
• From China/India: silk, spices, ivory, timber
• Imports
• Goods that enter a country
• To Europe: silk, spices, ivory, timber
• To China/India: gold, porcelain, wine

8. Closure with your partner
• On slates
• 3 imports to the USA
• 3 exports from the USA

9. Silk Road Assignment
1. Draw a map of the main Silk Road
2. List 6 modern countries the Silk Road went
through
3. Read the hand out and follow our reading
strategy. Underline the title, number
paragraphs, circle important words. For each
paragraph short summary to support the
statement “The Silk Road was vital to Rome’s
success”.