Saturday, January 20, 2018

Week of January 22, 2018 Honors

Rum reading is due Friday
  Annotate the whole reading
  2 good questions and answers
  reaction to author's style and the reading overall

Due Wednesday Homework sheets passed out on Monday
The First Global Age: Asia questions #1-4
The First Global Age: Europe, The Americas and Africa  # 1-4

15(1) The Search for Spices (364-368)
Read The Spice Trade (364)  What spices were in demand in Europe?
Read the Biography of Henry the Navigator (365)  Identify two reasons Henry wanted to fund voyages of exploration.
Draw and identify the two tools of navigation pictured on page 367.
Answer questions 2+3 on page 366.
Read the primary source (368) What type of food did Magellan's crew eat on their voyage? 
Answer questions 3,4,5,6 on page 368



15(3)  European Footholds in SE Asia and India  (373-376)
Read the primary source (373)  Where is the Straits of Malacca and why did the Portuguese want to control it?
Read about the Dodo bird (374)  Why were they extinct within 100 years?
Read about the cyclone that destroyed Calcutta (375)   Explain why the tsunami waves are so devastating?
Read Prized Imports (376) Why did the British Parliament try to ban Indian tapestries?

Identify outpost, sepoy, Alfoonso Albuquerque, Robert Clive
Answer questions 3,4,5 on page 376

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