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Learning Target:
Learning Target:
SWBAT summarize the impact of the Silk Road on societies across the world.
SWBAT summarize the impact of the Silk Road on societies across the world.
MWH.1.CX: Contextualize the Indian Ocean as the center of global exchanges within the historically significant Eastern Hemisphere trade networks.
MWH.1.CX: Contextualize the Indian Ocean as the center of global exchanges within the historically significant Eastern Hemisphere trade networks.
This indicator was developed to encourage inquiry into how the emergence of the Indian Ocean trade route, the Silk Road, and the power shifts between different groups happened as a result of economies, politics, population, resources, and technology.
MWH.1.E: Utilize a variety of primary and secondary sources to analyze multiple perspectives of global exchanges.
Students will analyze the picture to to activate knowledge and questions about the Silk Road
2. Students will read: "The Silk Road" and what Marco Polo wrote about the Silk Road to determine:
-What is it?
-Where did it go?
-What was traded?
-What led to its decline?
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