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India
GET READY For this lesson you will need:
•y KFH
•y Map 6, India
•y Fine-point black pen or pencil
•y Atlas
Read KFH p. 265 and pp. 298 - 299.
Create a three-level outline on India’s history
from 1600-1850 from your readings in KFH.
Include information about the rise and fall of
the Mogul Empire, the British in India, and the
East India Trading Companies.
On Map 6, use your atlas and the map on
KFH p. 298 to label:
India Pakistan (modern-day)
Delhi Ceylon (Sri Lanka)
Madras Arabian Sea
Bay of Bengal
Add the Taj Mahal to the Art, Inventions, &
Architecture section of your binder along with a
short summary and sketch.
Add Akbar and Aurangzeb to your Men &
Women section along with short summaries.
Add significant dates to your timeline.
East India Trading Companies
GET READY For this lesson you will need:
•y KFH
•y Map 7, East India Trading Companies
•y Fine-point black pen or pencil
•y Atlas
In the 17 th century the Dutch (from the Netherlands),
the English, and the French competed with each other
for the trade (mostly spices) in Indonesia and India. They
formed powerful organizations called the East India
Companies.
Read KFH p. 258 and p. 259.
Record a few dates on your timeline.
Choose one of the following assignments:
Part I
1. Summarize the East India Companies in your
Summaries section. Write a general summary
describing the purpose of the East India
Companies. Summarize the Dutch, English,
and French East India Companies. Record the
locations where they controlled trade, what they
traded, and dates.
2. Create a presentation on the history of the East
India Trading Companies using presentation
software such as PowerPoint, Keynote, or Corel
Presentations. Use charts, maps, pictures, and
other effects in your presentation.
Two Web sites that do a wonderful job of presenting the
story of the East India Trading Companies and provide many
images for your presentation:
•x www.footmarkmedia.co.uk/bltp/main.htm
•x www.bl.uk/learning/histcitizen/trading/tradingplaces.
html
Lesson
On Map 7, use your atlas to label the
following:
India London
Portugal The Netherlands (Holland)
Japan Africa
France Atlantic Ocean
England Spice Islands (Indonesia)
Bombay Philippines
Indian Ocean
Draw at least three trade routes on your
map as described in KFH. For example,
draw the trade route taken by the Dutch
from Holland to the Cape of Good Hope to
the East Indies and back again.
Amos Fortune: Free Man
GET READY For this lesson you will need:
• y Amos Fortune: Free Man by Elizabeth Yates
Begin reading Amos Fortune: Free Man by
Elizabeth Yates. This biography is based on
primary source documents written by Amos
Fortune himself. Continue with your lessons
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Trade and Rebellion History Odyssey: Early Modern Level 2
while reading this book. Complete your reading
before Lesson 27.
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Lesson African States
GET READY For this lesson you will need:
•y KFH
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• y Map 8, Africa and the Slave Trade, 16 to 19 th
Centuries
•y Fine-point black pen or pencil
•y Colored pencils
•y Atlas
Read KFH pp. 272 - 273.
Create a three-level outline of this reading.
On Map 8, look in your atlas and on p.
272 of KFH to label Africa and the African
states of Oyo, Benin, Ethiopia, and Ashanti.
Are these the modern-day names of these
historic African states
Also label the Atlantic Ocean, North
America, and Portugal.
Draw a route from Africa to the Americas
and label it “The Middle Passage.”
Complete the map key identifying the
Middle Passage. Shade Africa your second
favorite color.
Add significant dates to your timeline.
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Lesson African States (cont.)
GET READY For this lesson you will need:
•y Appendix F: Firsthand Account of the Slave
Trade
•y Worksheet: Evaluating Sources
q Read “Firsthand Account of the Slave Trade”
found in Appendix F.
Complete a copy of the “Evaluating Sources”
worksheet. Place the completed worksheet in
the Summaries section of your binder.
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Trade and Pirates
GET READY For this lesson you will need:
•y KFH
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• y Map 8, Africa and the Slave Trade, 16 to 19 th
Centuries
•y Fine-point black pen or pencil
•y Colored pencils
•y Atlas
Read KFH pp. 270 - 271.
On Map 8, label South America, the
West Indies, the Caribbean Sea, Jamaica,
and Europe. Draw the slave triangle as
represented in KFH on p. 270. Complete
the map key.
Add the following to your Men & Women
section along with short summaries:
Francis Drake
Captain Kidd
Edward Teach (Blackbeard)
Captain Henry Morgan
Add significant dates to your timeline.
Mercantilism and Trade
GET READY For this lesson you will need:
•y TSOM
•y Internet access
•y Amos Fortune: Free Man
During the 17 th and 18 th centuries, England
was engaged in a type of economic policy called
mercantilism—the idea that a country’s power
depended on its wealth, and a country’s wealth
depended upon a favorable balance of trade—selling
more goods to other countries than it bought (i.e.
more exports than imports). If England earned more
than it spent, then that equaled profits. England
imposed Navigation Acts upon the colonists to
control trade. Basically the colonies would supply
England, and only England, raw products such as

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tobacco, sugar, and indigo. Triangle trade routes
were set up to support mercantilism including the
triangle for the trading of slaves that you read about
in the last lesson.
Read TSOM chapter 50.
If you have access to the Internet, read more about
Mercantilism at these sites:
•x score.rims.k12.ca.us/score_lessons/market_to_
market/pages/mercantilism_imports_and_e.htm
•x www.sparknotes.com/testprep/books/sat2/history/
chapter5section4.rhtml
Choose between these two assignments:
1. Write a one- to two-page summary on
mercantilism in the summary section of your
binder. Define mercantilism and include
information on how England used the raw
materials provided by the American colonies
to increase their wealth. Explain how England’s
use of laws and tariffs controlled trade with the
colonists. How do you think mercantilism both
helped and hindered America
2. Give a presentation on the effects of
mercantilism and trade. Explain verbally and
visually how mercantilism worked. Recruit
volunteers to play the parts of the colonists,
the English, the Africans, and others. Show the
English imposing Navigation Acts and tariffs
upon the colonists and demonstrate how the
English made a profit. As part of your oral report,
act out a trade triangle. Use props with your
presentation and gather an audience. You might
want to take pictures of your play presentation
to put in the Summaries section of your binder.
A few common trade triangles in the 17 th and 18 th centuries:
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Challenge: Research and write a summary
about free trade (a philosophy of trade
practiced today) and describe how it differs
from mercantilism.
Finish reading Amos Fortune: Free Man before
the next lesson.
Merchantilism and Trade
(cont.)
GET READY For this lesson you will need:
•y Amos Fortune: Free Man
Use the information you learned from Amos
Fortune: Free Man and from the last few
lessons to write a fictitious letter to a friend
about the slave trade. Pretend you are either a
European ship owner who has just purchased
slaves for transport to the West Indies or
an American plantation owner who has just
purchased slaves at a slave market. In the letter
justify your decision to partake in the slave
trade. How will you profit Where will the
slaves go and for what will they be used Was
it an easy decision Do you care for the wellbeing
of the slaves What events are happening
that contributed to your decision to sell or buy
slaves
Write a response back as the friend to the
European ship owner or plantation owner
criticizing the decision to participate in the slave
trade. What could he have done differently
Why was purchasing or buying slaves a wrong
decision What are some alternatives to work
and profits gained through slavery Why are
the rights of individuals more important than
the potential profits of slavery
Manufactured goods in England
Tobacco in the colonies
Fruits & nuts in the West Indies
Molasses in the West Indies
Lumber in the colonies
Manufactured goods in England
Molasses in the West Indies
Slaves in Africa
Rum in the colonies
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