Narrate your own journey and experience while traveling the hajj road talking about what you encountered, where you went, what difficulties your character had on the hajj road, and finally reflecting on what you learned about traveling in the Ottoman 17th century world.

Written Game Travel Journal – 5-6 pages – double spaced – Times New Roman – Students will write an essay on travel in the Ottoman world reflecting on their own experience playing the Hajj Trail Historical Simulation. The essay should narrate your own journey and experience while traveling the hajj road talking about what you encountered, where you went, what difficulties your character had on the hajj road, and finally reflecting on what you learned about traveling in the Ottoman 17th century world. Students should include at least three references contextualizing their own experience in the simulation with quotes from either the two primary sources assigned with this unit (Evliya Celebi or Ibn al-Tayyib) or citing primary source quotes (in the historical account section) from the Hajj Trail itself. For this assignment students can cite instances from the Hajj Trail simulation in the following manner (Hajj Trail, “Title of the Page you are Citing (i.e. a city or event title)”).
Play the Historical simulation here at — https://hajjtrail.com/game (copy and paste file into google)

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