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European contact

Topics Year 4/5
This unit is part of Benin (900 to 1300CE) End of Benin

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Objectives

History

  • Study a non-European society that provides contrasts with British history – Benin (West Africa) c. AD 900-1300.
  • Children should regularly address and sometimes devise historically valid questions about change, cause, similarity and difference, and significance.

Geography

  • Use maps, atlases, globes and digital/computer mapping to locate countries and describe features studied.

Lesson Planning

Find out about the earliest contact with the Portuguese in 1489 and the subsequent boost to trade that was brought, especially the slave trade. Map the connections between Benin and the rest of the world before and after European contact.

Teaching Outcomes:

  • To find out about Benin's earliest contacts with Europe.
  • To map trade links Benin had before and after direct European contact.

Children will:

  • Use a scale to estimate distance on a map.
  • Appreciate the logistics of long distance trade before motorised vehicles and planes.
  • Explain why Europe and Benin both benefitted from trading with each other.

Provided Resources

  • Map of West Africa and Europe with scale
  • Objects of trade
  • Trading game

You Will Need

You do not need any particular resources for this session.

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