Cultures in Contact

In 1500 Britain was a small country on the edge of Europe just recovering from over a hundred years of war.
In other parts of the world there were much bigger, richer empires:

The Aztecs in Central America
The Ming in China
Benin, Mali and Songhay in West Africa
The Incas in South America
The Mughals in India

400 years later in 1900 Britain was the richest, most powerful country in the world.
All the above empires had fallen.
Their were now controlled by Europeans.
Britain was rich: Asia, Africa and Latin America had become much poorer.

How and why did this happen?
Create a presentation with images and your own words with your answer to this.
There are many different factors. See if you can make links between them.

Use the worksheet you did yesterday to help you.
You can also ‘google’ key words like slave trade, British Empire, Kingdom of Benin, opium wars, Captain Cook, Scramble for Africa etc etc.

These pages take you some other links:
Slave trade (scroll right down for the links)
British Empire

British Museum

The Transatlantic Slave Trade

For a new FLO click here.

15th century worlds

For Ming China go here.

For the Aztecs go here.

For a FLO go here.

Aux armes, citoyens!

14th July is BASTILLE DAY in France.....

... but what really happened? Who can we believe?

Your sources are here and your tasks are here.

Why so far and so fast?

The Prophet Muhammad died in the year 632. In the next hundred years Islam spread east, west and north to become the largest empire the world had known.

From Arabia Muslim armies marched north into what is now Iraq, Iran and Syria.

They marched east to Afghanistan and northern India.

They marched west to take over the whole of North Africa. They took control of most of Spain and marched into France.

Why did Islam spread so quickly between 632 and 732?

Umayyads

The spread of Islam

The early rise of Islam

Islamic history

Coming soon.......

The new Year 8 History blog .......

Heroes and heroines.

You have until the end of this lesson to finish your presentation.

Look carefully at the instructions. How can you make your presentation original and different?

Most of all, this is about the words you choose, the way you write about your hero or heroine.

You are competing against the others in the class, so you need to explain in your own words what makes your character special, why he or she is significant. Why should (s)he be remembered?

Here are some more good links. I can add more!

Heroes

Historic figures

Ottomans

Martin Luther King

Martin Luther King

Malcolm X

Florence Nightingale

Florence Nightingale

Florence Nightingale

Florence Nightingale

Richard the Lionheart

Richard the Lionheart

Salah al-Din

Salah al-Din

Vincent van Gogh