SOURCES8 and 9 show two different trade routes between Europe and the East. SOURCE8 shows the journey of famed Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama, while SOURCE9 shows the Silk Road, which stretched from Istanbul to China.
SOURCE9 The Silk Road trade route
Key
Silk Road
Other trade route
ASIA
CASPIAN SEA
EUROPE
ARAL SEA
Venice
MONGOLIA
Genoa
Turfan
Hami
BLACK SEA
Beijing
Rome
Samarkand
Dunhuang
Constantinople
Buchara
Athens
Kashgar
Aleppo
Seoul
Cadiz
Antioch
Gibraltar
Merv
Khotan
Lanzhou
Palmyra
Tehran
Ceuta
Xi’an
Baghdad
Tyre
CHINA
PERSIA
Cairo
Alexandria
Lhasa Kathmandu
Delhi
EGYPT
ARABIA
Medina
Ahmadabad
Guangzhou
Mecca
INDIA
ARABIAN
BAY OF
SEA
BENGAL
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1000
2000 3000
kilometres
Source: Spatial Vision
4.5 SkillBuilder activity COMMUNICATING
In a historian’s perfect world, there would be an equal amount of information available about all people, groups, places and events, and finding information would be as simple as using a search engine. Sadly, the historian’s actual world is far from the perfect world. It can often be extremely challenging to find historical information, especially about minority groups or smaller players in historical events. In this activity, you will investigate one such group, which existed during the Ottoman Empire — the Janissaries. 1. Conduct research to investigate some facts about the Janissaries. Try to find information that will help you answer the following: • Explain who the Janissaries were and when this group was established. • Explain the role that the Janissaries played in the Ottoman Empire. • Discuss what made the Janissaries unique in the Ottoman military and how they were encouraged to stay loyal to the empire. 2. Summarise the information in your own words. Make it brief and interesting to keep people’s attention. 3. Construct a fact sheet that will give another Year 8 student a useful description of the Janissaries and their role in the Ottoman Empire.
SOURCE10 Who were the Janissaries?
Jacaranda Humanities Alive 8 Victorian Curriculum Third Edition
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