Our new History topic this term is the Kingdom of Benin. This is an exciting topic, learning about this fascinating civilisation.
Read the questions below and answer them in the blog. I look forward to reading your responses.
1. What would you like to find out during our topic?
2. Are there any learning activities that you would like to try linked to the Kingdom of Benin?
3. Do you already know an interesting fact about the Kingdom of Benin that you can share with the class?
I would like to learn about the people and how they lived their daily lives.
An activity I would like to do is making the coral jewellery they wore.
An interesting fact I know is that in the Edo city, the palace complex had thousands of people living in it!
I would like to learn about their religion and how their daily life was .
I would like to make more bronzes and the coral necklaces . An interesting fact is they used cowrie shells as money and they traded Yams ,fish , salt and cattle with west Africans .