In this activity, you will map the migration of cumin across Asia, the Middle East and Europe.
Working alone or in a group, read the statements below as clues and determine the appropriate place each statement describes by referring to the article, Spice Migrations: Cumin. Type your answer in the fields.
Then using your answers as reference points, trace the history of the migration of cumin by dragging the numbered pin to the area of the map its statement best describes.
In this activity, you will map the migration of cumin across Asia, the Middle East and Europe.
Working alone or in a group, read the statements below as clues and determine the appropriate place each statement describes by referring to the article, Spice Migrations: Cumin. Type your answer in the fields.
Then using your answers as reference points, trace the history of the migration of cumin by dragging the numbered pin to the area of the map its statement best describes.
Cumin was referred to in recipes found here from around 1700 BCE.
Arab traders brought cumin here.
Phoenicians took cumin across North Africa and to here.
With migration, cumin became a major part of the cuisine of this area over the last 200 years.
Most of the world’s cumin today comes from here.