This lesson covers the Silk Road (Topic 2.1 AP World) through reading, videos, and a simulation trading game. The trading game brings the central ideas such as camels, caravanserai, flying cash, and the Silk Road as a whole, to life in a way that students enjoy and remember! The interactive nature of the game, along with the reflection activities that follow allow for a depth of learning that goes beyond the reading and videos (both which to serve to supplement the learning as well). This was on