Materials

• Overheads of four maps completed during first two sessions
• Teacher-developed quiz of selected locations from recent maps
• Blank outline world map for each student (and one on the overhead for teacher use)
• Colored pencils and/or markers
• Overhead of “Notes on Trade Routes” (Attachment A)
• Preferred teacher resources

Instructional Activities

NOTE: The following Web resources may be helpful with this session:

1. Administer a teacher-prepared quiz on map locations (religions, geography, and empires).
   
   
2. After the quiz, review quickly as a class all four maps .
   
   
3. Distribute blank outline world maps and colored pencils. Using an overhead map, direct students in the development of a map depicting major trades routes around 1500 a.d. to include the following:
   • Silk roads across Asia to the Mediterranean basin
   • Indian Ocean Maritime routes
   • Trans-Saharan routes across North Africa
   • Northern European links with the Black Sea
   • Western European sea and river trade
   • South China Sea and lands of Southeast Asia
   
   Do one route at a time, explaining its importance. Have students locate what empires the trade route helped connect and tell why the trade route got its name.
   
   Complete each trade route in a different color, and create a color-coded key.
   
   
4. Present notes in question/answer format:
   • Have students create a “Cornell” line on their paper (a vertical line about a third of the way in from left).
   • On the left side, place questions; on the right, the corresponding answers.
   • Explain to students that their notes will be easy to study from if they cover up the answers on the right side with another sheet of paper and guess the answers.
   
   
5. Assign a teacher-selected reading, worksheet, or other reinforcement activity.