Materials

• Overheads of the maps completed over the first three sessions
• Teacher-prepared quiz of selected locations from recent maps and/or notes from Session 3

Instructional Activities

1. Review content covered to this point in the unit.
   
   
2. Distribute a blank map of the Eastern Hemisphere to students or, if used in a previous session, instruct students to use the map on which they traced trade routes.
   
   
3. Instruct students to annotate their map to reflect goods, technology, and ideas that traveled along the various trade routes. They should develop or add to their map legend to reflect the following information (displayed on the overhead or distributed as a handout):

• Goods
– Gold from West Africa
– Spices from lands around the Indian Ocean
– Textiles from India, China, the Middle East, and later Europe
– Porcelain from China and Persia
• Technology
– Paper from China through the Muslim world to Byzantium and Western Europe
– New crops from India (e.g., for making sugar)
– Waterwheels and windmills
– Navigation: Compass from China, lateen sail from Indian Ocean
• Ideas
– Spread of religions across the hemisphere
    a. Buddhism from China to Korea and Japan
    b. Hinduism and Buddhism from India to Southeast Asia
    c. Islam into West Africa, Central and Southeast Asia
– Printing and paper money from China

4. Administer a teacher-prepared quiz on selected locations from recent maps and notes.