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Trade and Place

3 sessions, in order

Why ships went where they went, the five narrow chokepoints the whole world's shipping still has to pass through today, and the trail of place names those same journeys left behind on a modern map. Trade, geography, and naming, in that order, because each one explains the next.

1.H&C-9Spice Merchants of the Seven SeasHistory & Civics~28 minWhy did Europeans sail across entire oceans for spices? Trade, scarcity, and the hunger for flavor that redrew the map.
2.GEO-11Captains of the Five GatesGeography~24 minWhat happens to the world if one narrow strait gets blocked? Chokepoints like Suez, Panama, and Hormuz, and why they matter.
3.GEO-6The City Name Treasure HuntGeography~31 minWhy is there a 'New York' and a 'New Hampshire'? Tracing colonial naming and migration across a map.