3) Global Trade - A PB&J Story  FreEnglish
Channel: FreEnglish
Date: 29/09/2019

https://youtu.be/2vxZlUUJIoY

Purpose -  Explain the importance  of Global Trade with the example story of PB and J sandwiches. 

i-1) Today, Global Trade is often in the news. 
i-2) Worldwide Trade seems complicated 
i-3) But it is simply people trading ideas,  goods and services around the world. (school house rock barter this for that)

1-1) Today, people from all over the world work  together.
 1-2) We trade ideas (iPhone designed in CA, made in China), Objects (camera, cars, computers)  and Actions (services like translations). 
1-3) For example,
Smartphones are made of materials and parts from around the world. (Examples) 
1-4) But global trading is not new. 
In the distant past, people trade together too. 
(Examples, Greece and Egyptians or Babylonians)
1-5) In ancient Egypt,  Pyramid Builders drink Greek wine. 
1-6) In the Past, Romans in Italy eat wheat from Africa. 
1-7) To understand Global Trade,
 Let’s look at the PB&J Sandwich Story. 
Show the world Map with (Iraq) wheat, (Italy) grapes and (New Guinea) sugar cane. See Draft book, Where PBJs Come From Page 10)

2-1) ( text, wheat, Mesopotamia, City of Sumer, Iraq)
Long, Long  ago, wheat is a wild grass in Iraq. 
2-2) (text, 10,000 years ago)
People learn how to plant it. They become the first farmers. 
2-3) People make cities. People bake wheat into bread. 
2-4) People in the cities trade with others. 
2-5) Wheat spreads throughout Europe and Africa. (show wheat, food animals (cows, sheep, goats) 
2-6) (Text, grapes) In the past, People also trade other crops like grapes too. 
(Greeks, Romans) 

3-1) (text, peanuts - South America)
In the Past and far away, Peanuts, only grow in South America. 
3-2) Starting with Columbus, 
Europeans sailed from the old world to the new. 
3-4) They trade things back and forth between Europe and Americas. 
3-5) This includes metals (gold and silver), corn , potatoes and important to our story,  Peanuts.  (Columbian Exchange). 
3-7) Years Later, this guy (George Washington Carver) creates peanut butter. And a bunch of other inventions. (Examples). 
He also makes over ——- inventions using peanuts. 
3-8) Next, our sandwich needs something sweet. 

4-1) (text sugarcane Asia) 
In the past, sugarcane only grows in Asia (Show Papa New Guinea , tropics) 
4-2) Western people sail to Asia to trade for Chinese goods like ceramics and silks. 
4-3) Next, expensive tropical  Asian (Indonesian) spices are traded in Europe (wooden ships and Dutch spice trade) 
4-4) Westerners bring plants (corn, potatoes, peanuts, chili peppers) to Asia. 
4-5) They take sugarcane plants to hot places in the America’s. 
4-6) It is a sad fact of history that sweet sugar once bitterly, used slave labor. 
4-7) Today machines are used to make sugar. 
4-8) Next, let’s make our sandwich!

5-1) (text Bread)
Wheat Flour is mixed with these (water, yeast and salt) 
5-2) Dough is baked to make bread. (Slice it)
5-3) (text peanut Butter)
Peanut paste is mixed with these (sugar, salt and oil) to make salty peanut butter. 
5-4) (text Jelly)
Fruit (grapes) is mixed with these (sugar and pectin) to make sweet jelly. 
5-5) (text, Assemble) The peanut butter and jelly are spread onto the sliced bread. 
5-6) Next, comes the best part.   
Eating the PB&J sandwich!  Yummy! 
5-7) Amazing how pieces! Once so far apart are traded together to make the sweet and salty, tasty sandwiches. 
5-8) To recap, Global Trade is not new. 

6-1) (text, Then)
In the past, trade causes contact between different people and cultures (around the world). 
6-2) People share info on how to count (info-Arabic Numbers)
And write (Phoenician alphabet and Chinese Characters)
6-3) People Trade products like paper and printing presses. 
6-4) People trade sugars and spices (spice trade routes)
6-5) metals (gold, silver and iron)
And materials (lumber and 
6-6) Fibers (wool and cotton)
And Food (wheat, rice and corn; fruit, veg and coconuts)
6-7) Simply said,
Global Trade shapes Human history. 
(Example silkroad, triangle trade and trans ocean trades )

7-1) Global Trade also has plus and minus effects. 
7-2) Money made by trade is Not equally shared. 
(Wealth inequality)
7-3) Pollution increases by making and moving the many objects of worldwide trade. 
7-4) Jobs are often lost in the import country. 
7-5) There are positive effects too.
Wow! Half of the world economy is due to global trade! 
7-6). Today, Global designs (iPhone California) and parts make amazing products of our modern world. (Factories in China, western Consumers). 
7-7) Global consumers get access to greater amounts of lower cost goods.