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Trade

Activity 1 (continued): History around us

Symbolism at the Corn Exchange

The Corn Exchange was a place designed to help traders do deals and make money. The plaster images shown here are above the doors in the Corn Exchange. They were designed to represent Bristol links, trade and profit to each of the continents shown.

Drag the names of the continents to the correct image - see if you can identify the heads representing Africa, the Americas and Asia.

Hold down your left mouse button and drag across to see the answers.

Start here: Picture 1: Asia; Picture 2: Africa; Picture 3: Americas.

On a sheet of paper, or using a desk top publishing program design a similar image to represent Europe.