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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:
1. use the link on Ms. Forrelli's homework page
www.msforrelli.wordpress.com
2. Google “Kilwa pot sherds BBC”
click on the first link select BBC - A History of the World Object: Kilwa pot sherds
3. Go to the address below and search Kilwa Pot Sherds
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ahistoryoftheworld
Look: Look carefully at the 3 photographs.
Zoom in and examine the objects in detail.
Describe what you see in detail
Listen: Click on the “Listen to this Programme” button
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?
Turn over…..
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
that?