Salt and Spices Lesson

Salt and Spices Lesson

Evidence Stems

Elaboration Stems

Multiple Select

What are good pieces of evidence to use for your evidence and explain for the paragraph titled "Use of Spices in History."

• They have been used to flavor foods, but there have been other uses.

• Salt was used to pay soldiers in Rome.

• "Ancient Egyptians used cinnamon to embalm bodies."

• "The workers who built the pyramids ate onions and garlic to get lots of strength."

• Salt was used in wars.

Open Ended

What is a good opening sentence for your paragraph about how spices were used in history?

Multiple Select

What are good pieces of evidence and elaboration to use for the paragraph titled "Used for Power?"

• First, "Rome used its trade center in Alexandria to control spice trade with Asia."

• "Rome built villages along the Mediterranean coast to control salt production."

• Venice controlled the spice trade.

• "Portugal became the spice boss after Vasco De Gama found a new route to India."

• "Rome built the Via Salarium, or Salt Road, to transport salt."

Open Ended

What is a good opening sentence for your paragraph about how spices were used for power?

Multiple Select

What are good pieces of evidence and elaboration to use for the paragraph titled "Used in Trade and Business?"

• "Rome built the Via Salarium, or Salt Road, to transport salt."

• In ancient times, most spices came to Asia over land routes called the Silk Road.

• After Rome set up a trade center in Alexandria, Egypt, all spices had to pass through this center to get to Europe.

• "Traders paid huge taxes on the spices they moved through Venice."

• Salt is used as a currency in America daily.

Open Ended

What is a good opening sentence for your paragraph about how spices were used for trade and business?