Trade & Travel Test

Objectives

• Describe how trade & travel affected Europe, the Ottomans, and the Ming.

Agenda

• Warm-U #9:  Read the following quote about the Age of Exploration.  What argument is Vonnegut trying to make about the way we often teach and study Europe's "discovery" of the Americas?  

“Teachers of children in the United States of America wrote this date on blackboards again and again, and asked the children to memorize it with pride and joy: 1492. The teachers told the children that this was when their continent was discovered by human beings. Actually, millions of human beings were already living full and imaginative lives on the continent in 1492. That was simply the year in which sea pirates began to cheat and rob and kill them.”    

- Kurt Vonnegut

• Study for your test
• Hand in...
• Ming China Worksheet
• Map of Modern East Asia  (staple to Ming sheet)
• Any other missing work
• Test #2 - Trade & Travel - Objective Section
• Lunch
• Test #2 - Trade & Travel - Essay Section