Introduction

"This magnificent African cake."

- Quote of Belgium King Leopold
on the carving up of Africa
by European powers.

If you have never heard this quote before, you may not know what it means. Once you have learned a little about Africa, you will understand and explain its meaning. Pay close attention to the information you are about to learn. Take good notes, because you will be asked to answer questions about the information you learn in it and through the maps you are about to study in the assessment section of this lesson.

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Lesson Objectives

Following successful completion of this lesson, students will be able to:

  • Explain the relationship between physical geography and cultural development in India, Africa, Japan, and China in the early Global Age, including trade and travel, natural resources, and movement and isolation of peoples and ideas.
  • Depicting the general location of, size of, and distance between regions in the early Global Age Example: drawing sketch maps

The above objectives correspond with the Alabama Course of Study: World History: 1500 to the Present Objective(s): 4, 4A.

This lesson incorporates the following Literacy Standard(s):

 

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