Lesson Seven: Treaty Negotiations

Before class, the teacher should arrange the desks into groups of three or four by empire team.

Students should bring:

• Land-Based Trade Policy Options Worksheet; OR
  Sea-Based Trade Policy Options Worksheet
• Treaty Planning Worksheet (two copies)

Activity 1. Picking Your Lead Negotiator

Students meet with their empire teams to decide who will be the lead negotiator in each round of negotiations and review their treaty proposals and negotiation strategies. They also review other empires' draft treaty proposals on their Treating Planning Worksheet.

Activity 2. Negotiations

In a series of three rounds, students negotiate a trade treaty with another empire (or empires) using the Treaty Planning Worksheet as a template.

Each empire team submits an explanation of the treaty they signed using the following stems:

“We accepted the _____ Empire’s proposal of ______ because_________”

“We rejected the ______ Empire’s proposal of ______ because_________”