Learning Objective Describe the Student provides: importance of a description of the city at ANY existing trade TIME during the period 600 to routes and how 1450CE 10 they promoted demonstrates how the city was (5 pts ea.) the growth of important to regional/interregional powerful new trade trading cities Locate at least Student provides: one existing advice on what trade route one and/or would travel on to get to the city developing trade OR 5 route in the if no trade route is found, Western or then a geographically correct travel Eastern route of the student’s own Hemispheres choosing Identify luxury Student provides: goods traded a description of what goods a within their merchant would be able to buy and 20 assigned trading sell in the city (10 pts city a description of what luxury ea.) goods might have been used by wealthy inhabitants of the city Identify Student provides: transportation a description of different and commercial transportation technologies a technologies merchant use to reach the city 10 used to reach or (caravanserai, camel and horse trade with the saddles, compass, astrolabe, ship trading city design, road networks, etc.) Identify an Student provides: example of new a narrative of in which a forms of credit traveler would use new forms of and credit and monetization (bills of 5 monetization exchange/currency, credit, bank used in the checks, banking houses, etc.) trading city Completed Possible Points Learning Criteria (√) Points Earned Objective
Learning Objective Describe the importance of existing trade routes and how they promoted the growth of powerful new trading cities Student provides: a description of the city at ANY TIME during the period 600 to 1450CE demonstrates how the city was important to regional/interregional trade 10 (5 pts ea.) Locate at least one existing and/or developing trade route in the Western or Eastern Hemispheres Student provides: advice on what trade route one would travel on to get to the city OR if no trade route is found, then a geographically correct travel route of the student’s own choosing 5 Identify luxury goods traded within their assigned trading city Student provides: a description of what goods a merchant would be able to buy and sell in the city a description of what luxury goods might have been used by wealthy inhabitants of the city 20 (10 pts ea.) Identify transportation and commercial technologies used to reach or trade with the trading city Student provides: a description of different transportation technologies a merchant use to reach the city (caravanserai, camel and horse saddles, compass, astrolabe, ship design, road networks, etc.) 10 Identify an example of new forms of credit and monetization used in the trading city Student provides: a narrative of in which a traveler would use new forms of credit and monetization (bills of exchange/currency, credit, bank checks, banking houses, etc.) 5 Learning Objective Criteria Completed (√) Possible Points Points Earned
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