Connections, Continuities, and changes: An Internet Treasure Hunt (Indian Ocean)
Click on the links below, then answer the questions below on a separate piece of paper, or you can put them on a Word document and print them.
Indian ocean Trade Diaspora:
http://lrrc3.sas.upenn.edu/indianocean/group1/lyman.html
- Why does geography (and point of view) matter in the Indian Ocean?
The Indian Ocean and Global Trade:
http://www.saudiaramcoworld.com/issue/200504/
- First, if possible on our school computers, click on the “interactive trade routes” map. If you can get to the map, name three connections you see between places in the Indian Ocean world. Be specific about the places involved and the nature of the connection (Land, water, strait, who was trading, what might be traded).
- What might happen to the hubs (or trading ports) as travel and trade increased in these areas?
- Click on “Monsoons, Mude & Gold”.
- What is the importance of the Fatimid Dynasty in Trade?
- What was the importance of the Venetians?
- How did the desire for gold, and then silver, influence the world (trade, exploration, power)?
- Click on “The Traveler Ibn Battuta” and provide five examples of how Ibn Battuta lived in a cosmopolitan world (think trade, textiles, influence in foods, etc…)
- Click on “
World History Traveler
http://learner.org/channel/courses/worldhistory/traveler.html
- Click on “Launch the Traveler Interactive,” then click “Find a Thematic Pathway, then “Indian Ocean Trace” and finally “Connections & Encounters.” (Be sure to click “Go”). Select “Ship and Caravan Trade Move Goods.”
- Look at the short reading and the images. What does this say about the types of commodities that flowed on the Indian Ocean trade routes?
Zheng He – China’s Great Armada
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0507/feature2/multimedia.html
- Try this website and see if it will work. Click on “map” and read through the information provided. Notice the expanse that China had sailed.
Zheng He – The Next Asian Journey
http://www.time.com/time/asia/features/journey2001/
- Take a look around at the ships, map, timeline, etc…
- Finally, click on “china: In the Wake of the admiral”
- How does china remember Zheng He today?
Portugal’s Entry into the Indian Ocean Trade Community
http://www.ucalgary.ca/applied_history/tutor/oldwrld/merchants/portugal.html
- What was the significance of the Portuguese arrival in Calicut in 1498?
- How did the European goods compare with Arab goods?
- What was the point of view of local Muslim merchants?
- How did this herald a change?
The Travels of Ibn Battuta
http://www.sfusd.k12.ca.us/schwww/sch618/Ibn_Battuta/Ibn_Battuta_Rihla.html
- Look at the photographs of the journey (you must scroll down and click on the travel sites).
- What types of obstacles did Ibn Battuta face in his journey?
Ibn Battuta Mall
http://www.ibnbattutamall.com/index.asp
- What is the significance of this 21st century mall in Dubai?
- What replica is located in the China section of the mall? (you have to look around the China site to find it)
- What are the Ibn Battuta trials?
The big question: In what ways have Indian Ocean trade changed and stayed the same?