Trade and money

Topics Year 4/5
This unit is part of Earliest Civilisations: Ancient Sumer Ancient Sumerian Daily Life

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Objectives

History

Know and understand significant aspects of the history of the wider world: the nature of ancient civilisations; characteristic features of past non-European societies.
Understand historical concepts such as cause and consequence.
Gain historical perspective by placing their growing knowledge into different contexts, understanding the connections between economic and social history.

Geography

Use maps to locate countries and describe features studied.
Describe and understand key aspects of economic activity including trade links.

Lesson Planning

Learn about the transport and goods of Ancient Sumerian traders. Draw Ancient Sumerian trade routes on a map of the Middle East.

Teaching Outcomes:

To understand important facts about Ancient Sumerian traders.
To mark Ancient Sumer trade routes on a map of the Middle East.

Children will:

Describe the transport used by Ancient Sumer traders.
Draw Ancient Sumer trade routes on a map of the Middle East.
List some of the goods that were traded by the Ancient Sumerians.

Planning

Provided Resources

Ancient Sumerian boats
Modern Quffa
Model chariots
Trade maps
Goods traded
Blank trade map

Unit Resources

You Will Need

Computers or tablets
Atlases
Reference books about Ancient Sumer

Weblinks

The Tale of Three Merchants from mesopotamia.co.uk
Exploring Trade and Transport from mesopotamia.co.uk