Materials

• Text
• Map of colonies and trading posts (one copy for each student)
• Colored pencils and/or markers
• “The Trading Game”

Instructional Activities

NOTE: The following Web resource may be helpful in planning “The Trading Game”:

• Trading Game. Stephanie Thibeau. <http://www.imf.org/external/np/exr/center/students/trade/index.htm>.

1. Select text reading that explains where Europeans established colonies and trading posts. Display a map of colonies and trading posts. Ask questions that will require students to analyze the map. The following Web site may be helpful in locating a map: Historical Maps of the World.
   <http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/historical/history_world.html>.
   
   
2. Direct students to construct a map of the colonies and trading posts for their notebooks. Have them color-code the locations according to the countries that possessed them.
   
   
3. Have students play “The Trading Game” to compete for profits based on their investments. (Playing time: 40-50 minutes)
   
   
4. Instruct students to analyze the impact on Europeans by examining selected reading assignments.
   
   
5. Display the following short-answer questions, and have students respond:
   • Who were the monarchs of countries establishing colonies around the world?
   • What was the role of each of the monarchs in colonization?
   • What were the reasons for colonization?
   • What risks were involved for the country establishing colonies?