M1.2: Factors Affecting TradeA2
M1.2: Module Intro
M1.2: Factors Affecting Trade
Our enquiry
Which factors matter most in shaping a country's trade: its history, or the world today?
Location and history → Trade today → Rules and firms → Interacting factors → Country comparisons → Overall judgement
Follow the questions towards your final judgement. At selected handovers, pause briefly to think or discuss. On the full module path, keep a written connection after Who Keeps the Value? and Build the Big Picture.
⭐ Your path13 steps. The important knowledge in this module: the backbone you need to practise. Do them in order.0 of 13 done
How do location and history shape trading opportunities?
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I can sort the factors that shape trade into two families, physical and historical or economic and political, and say how each one works
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I can explain how location and natural resources give a country a head start, and why they do not decide its trade on their own
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I can explain how colonial rule set up trade in raw materials, and why many former colonies still trade that way
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I can explain how colonial rule set up trade in raw materials, and why many former colonies still trade that way
What changes trading opportunities today?
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I can explain how prices, transport, ICT, money and skills decide which countries join global supply chains and what they earn
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I can explain how prices, transport, ICT, money and skills decide which countries join global supply chains and what they earn
How do trade rules and firms affect who gains?
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I can explain how trade blocs, tariffs and TNCs set the rules of trade, and who they tend to reward
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I can explain how trade blocs, tariffs and TNCs set the rules of trade, and who they tend to reward
How do factors combine rather than act alone?
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I can explain how the factors combine, why development is partly their result, and how one factor can help one country and hold back another
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I can sort the factors that shape trade into two families, physical and historical or economic and political, and say how each one works
Why can the same factor produce different outcomes?
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I can explain how the factors combine, why development is partly their result, and how one factor can help one country and hold back another
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I can explain how the factors combine, why development is partly their result, and how one factor can help one country and hold back another
When does history matter more than the world today?
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I can tell the whole story of what shapes a country's trade and answer the big question with a figure for each point
🎓 Seminar prep
Prepare your evidence and arguments for the class seminar.
🔎 Go deeper · 2
🔎 Go deeperExtension. Pushing for a top grade, or found a step hard? These build on the same ideas, so you can stretch or consolidate.
- I can sort the factors that shape trade into two families, physical and historical or economic and political, and say how each one works
- I can tell the whole story of what shapes a country's trade and answer the big question with a figure for each point
🔎 Go deeperExtension. Pushing for a top grade, or found a step hard? These build on the same ideas, so you can stretch or consolidate.
- I can sort the factors that shape trade into two families, physical and historical or economic and political, and say how each one works
- I can tell the whole story of what shapes a country's trade and answer the big question with a figure for each point