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**World Regions: India**
Instructor: Daniel Ondich dan.ondich@sobrietyhigh.org

**What's Due for Lesson 3**
Video Version** ||||< **On Nicenet:**
 * < **What's Due
 * none ||< **In you wiki:**
 * Create "Kerala" page and answer questions ||< **Vocabulary:**
 * Migration
 * Hindu ||< **Other:**
 * none ||

**Step 1**:
Make a **new page** in your wiki titled "Vocabulary." Add the day's vocab into your wiki. (see "What's Due" at the top of the page) //**write __only__ the definition for term in your own words**//.


 * Lesson 3**
 * Migration:
 * Hindu:

**Step 2**:
Many of the lessons in this course will utilize the interactive photo gallery from PBS's __The Story of India__. Take a few minutes and play around with the functions of the interactive photo gallery. I recommend clicking "Display All" in the upper right corner to view all materials needed to complete a lesson.

Click [|HERE] to begin.

**Step 3**:
*NOTE: Some questions throughout this course may require additional research outside The Story of India page.

Log into your course wiki and create a new page titled "Kerala". Copy and paste the following discussion questions into your new page:


 * Answer each of the following questions using 1-2 complete sentences.**


 * 1) Approximately how long ago did the first humans migrate out of Africa?
 * 2) How does the port town of Muziris exemplify an early European obsession with Indian goods?
 * 3) How did spices shape the Indian Ocean trade networks? What spices did they trade for? Why were they so important to the Europeans?
 * 4) How has the treatment of Jews in India been different from the treatment of Jews in other places in the world? What explains this?
 * 5) How did Vasco da Gama's voyage into the Indian Ocean transform the world economy? What long-term effects of da Gama's visit did India experience?
 * 6) Why has boat building been such an important part of India's history?

**Step 4**:
Return to __The Story of India__ and read all the information on the "[|Kerala]" page and answer the questions in your course wiki.


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