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Kilwa Pot Sherds
A History of the World from the BBC
Directions
You will need Internet access to complete this assignment.
You can access the web page in any of the following ways:
 Visit Ms. McEvoy’s homework page
 Google “Kilwa Pot Sherds BBC”
select BBC-History of the World-Object-Kilwa Pot Sherds
 go to the address below and search Kilwa Pot Sherds
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ahistoryoftheworld
Look
Look carefully at the three photographs.
Zoom in and examine the objects in detail.
Describe what you see in detail
Listen
Click on the “Listen to this Programme” button (The audio is about 15 min. long)
or if you prefer “Read the Transcript”
Answer the questions below
Why was the Indian
Ocean easier to cross
than the Atlantic?
What are the green
objects? What do they
tell us?
What are the blue
objects? What do they
tell us?
How is Swahili culture
and language
cosmopolitan?
What are the brown
objects? What do they
tell us?
The narrator says that
“the Indian Ocean
unites more than it
separates people”
What does he mean by
this?