Silk Road Project

I enjoyed this project very much because it offered more than just a formal essay. The map allowed us to portray our understanding in a layout formation, which also helped me grasp the information better because I learn better visually. I also like to draw so that was a bonus.Three things that went really well were the fact that Nadia lives right down the street so it was convienient to get together (and provided us with something to do in a power outage), the map itself because I think we did a pretty good job, and utilizing the book for information. Three things that didn't go so well were the fact that we didn't have power forcing us to learn by candlelight, trying to condense a lot of information into one map and a two page essay, and gathering good Internet resources that provided correct trade routes for certain products. If I were to do one thing differently I think I would use more pictures and less writing on the map(E.g. maybe draw pictures of sugarcane rather than write out a description for it.) I think this would be easier to visually understand. And overall I thought the collaboration went very well both because Nadia and I have a similar mindset and we live 2 minutes away from each other.