HCIS YEAR 5 LESSON 3.4 MAYAN MERCHANTS page 44-45

HCIS YEAR 5

5-JANUARY , TUESDAY

LESSON 3.4 MAYAN MERCHANTS

page 44-45 Student book

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

• Explain how Mayan's merchant

• Identify what products to Maya's trade in

There were many city-states. Each city-state traded with each other. The large trading network was very imp0ortant for the city states. Why was the trading so impotant? What goods did the maya trade? How did the merchants travel?

Why did the city-states trade?

• City-states near the coast had plenty of fish and salt. They have poor farm lands. traded fish and salt for maize and vegetables.

• Low land city states traded building materials for shrimps, lobsters crabs from coastal city-states or Jade and obsidian from the highlands

Why did the city-states trade? page 44

• The City-states in the tropical areas traded skins from jungle animals, feathers,wood and cacao beans for the good they need

Multiple Choice

1. What do city-states near the coast traded?

• Fish

• Salt

• Both

• None of the above

Multiple Choice

2. lowland city-states traded

• materials for making tools

• flint

• limestones

• All of the above

Multiple Choice

3. Tropical area city states traded

• Skinns of jungle animals

• Feathers

• cacao beans

• All of the above

Jade or chocolate money? page 44

The Maya did not use coins or notes to buy and sell. The merchants agreed between themselves how much of their goods they would swap for something they need. This is called bartering. Sometimes merchants carried jade or cacao beans with them to swap for goods because these resources were so valuable.

Multiple Choice

4. What did the mayas bring to swap for goods because there were so valuable

• Jade

• Cacao beans

• Both

• None

Merchants

page 44-45

People who travelled around the region trading goods were known as mechants. Merchants are well respected and many lived very comfortable lives. They did not use donkeys or elephants to help them transport goods. They used people from from their own city-state or slaves. The city-states were linked by well built roads.

Merchants...

Sometimes the merchants used rivers or sailed to the sea close to the shore so they did not get lost. The merchants also used canoes made from hollowed -out tree trunks. These boats were up to 15 meters long, 2.5 meteres wide and powered by 25 rowers.

Open Ended

5. Describe what is a merchant.

Open Ended

6. Why is a merchant an important job?

Open Ended

7. What methods of transport merchants use?