Unit 4 c. 1450 – 1750: The Early Modern Era of Global Interaction

* Early Modern Era Key Concept Packet*

• Keep all that class- and homework organized w’ your AP World Binder.
• Monday: Signing up for Regionally-Specific Groups; identifying which primary source documents from your region you will read w’ your group (use this link).  Print your chapter outline page and primary documents by Wednesday, Oct. 30; your chapter outline and primary source document annotations are Due Tuesday, Nov. 5.
• Due Thursday: C.C. 15th Century Mariners
• Due Next Monday: Textbook chapter outline on 23) Transoceanic Encounters & Global Connections AND C.C. Columbian Exchange.
• Due Next Tuesday: C.C. The Spanish Empire, Silver, and Runaway Inflation … and your regionally-specific chapter outline & primary doc(s) annotations.
• Due Next Thursday: C.C. Atlantic Slave Trade
• Due Next Friday: C.C. Capitalism & the Dutch East Indies Company
• Due Next-next Monday: C.C. Little Ice Age & annotations of “How the Little Ice Age Changed History”.
• Due Next-next Tuesday: C.C. The Mughal Empire and Historical Reputation
• Due Next-next Wednesday: C.C. Venice and the Ottoman Empire
• Due Next-next Thursday: C.C. Protestant Reformation AND Charles V & the H.R.E..

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*The Post-Classical Era Key Concept HW Packet*

Here’s the Regionally-Specific Group Presentation SKELETON;  Your regionally-specific groups; keeping class- and homework organized w’ our AP World Binders.

• Due Tuesday: Reading and annotating Frank Viviano’s China’s Great Armada – six hundred years ago China’s Admiral Zheng He led a mighty fleet on the first of seven voyages that reshaped an empire
• Due Wednesday: CC Japan in the Heian Period and Cultural History.
• Friday: Post-Classical Era EXAM: 45 stimulus-based MCQs & 1 SAQ from a choice of 3.  150 points total.

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Post-Classical KC 3: Increased Economic Productive Capacity and its Consequences.  Changes in trade networks resulted from and stimulated increasing productive capacity, with important implications for social and gender structures and environmental processes.

• Samuel Cohn, “After the Black Death: Labour, Legislation and Attitudes towards Labour in late-medieval Western Europe” (2007)

• Ralph Turner: Economic Discontent in Medieval Europe.
• Chris Butler: The Impact of the Black Death.
• Gideon Sjoberg: The Preindustrial City.
• ‘The Chronicler’ of 14th Century Ethiopia on Muslim-Christian Relations.
• DBQ: Christian and Muslim views of merchants in the Classical and Post-Classical eras
• DBQ: Social roles as a function of Gender in the Middle Ages

*The Post-Classical Era Key Concept HW Packet*

Here’s the Regionally-Specific Group Presentation SKELETON;  Your regionally-specific groups; keeping class- and homework organized w’ our AP World Binders.

• Wednesday: CC: Int’l Commerce in the Indian Ocean Basin.  Reading and annotating Stewart Gordon’s Xuanzang’s Overland Travels in the Early 600’s.
• Friday: 1) Southernization Reading and Mapping.  2)CC: Wait For It… The Mongols! 3) Reading and annotating Stewart Gordon’s Pepper and Partnerships of a Jewish Trader in the early 1100’s.
• Next Monday: CC The Dark Ages… How Dark Were They, Really? AND CC The Crusades – Pilgrimage or Holy War?
• Next Tuesday: Reading and annotating Frank Viviano’s China’s Great Armada – six hundred years ago China’s Admiral Zheng He led a mighty fleet on the first of seven voyages that reshaped an empire
• Next Wed.: CC Japan in the Heian Period and Cultural History.
• Next Friday: Post-Classical Era EXAM.

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Post-Classical KC 2: Continuity and Innovation of State Forms and Their Interactions.  State formation and development demonstrated continuity, innovation, and diversity in various regions.

• Crash Course: The Dark Ages… How Dark Were They, Really?

• Post-Classical Asia:
  • The Sui and Tang Dynasties, 589 – 907 – Bentley pg. 377
    • China from 1,000 thru 1,300 CE.
    • Susan M. Greenhalgh: Bound Feet, Hobbled Lives in China.
    • DBQ: Role of Class and Gender in Chinese Social Structure.
    • Crash Course: Japan in the Heian Period and Cultural History.
  • The Song Dynasty in China, 960 – 1279.  Bentley pg. 383
  • DBQ: Economic Growth as a Function of Chinese State Policies.
  • SAQ on Imperial China and Central Asian nomads.
  • Readings on the Extent of the Mongolian Empire. Then read An inquiry into what stopped the Mongols from conquering Europe.
  • The Mongol empires in Eurasia c. 1300. Bentley pg. 470
  • SAQ on The Mongols.
  • Crash Course: Wait For It… The Mongols!
  • Selections of Bhakti (India) Poetry
  • Selections of Tang Dynasty Poetry
• Post-Classical Mediterranean and Arabian Basins:
  • The expansion of Islam, 632 – 733.  Bentley pg. 354
  • Tamim Ansary. Destiny Disrupted. “Empire of the Umayyads” 661-737 CE
  • ibid. “The Abbasid Age” 737-961 CE
  • Crash Course: Islam, The Quran, and the Five Pillars.
  • Successor states to the Roman empire, c. 600 – Bentley pg. 435
  • The Byzantine Empire and its neighbors, c. 1100 – Bentley pg. 337
  • The Turkish empires and their neighbors, c. 1210 – Bentley pg. 466
• Post-Classical Middle East & India:
  • Tamerlane’s empire in the Middle East c. 1405 – Bentley pg. 477
  • Major states of postclassical India, 600 – 1600 – Bentley pg. 407
  • DBQ: Post-Classical Muslim Cities
• Post-Classical Sub-Saharan Africa:
  • Sub-sahara African states, c. 800 – 1500 – Bentley pg. 489
  • J.H. Goodwin: The Medieval Empire of Ghana
  • Terry Elkiss: Kilwa Kisiwani & the Rise of the E. African City State
  • DBQ: Post-Classical Sub-Saharan African Achievements
  • Crash Course: Mansa Musa and Islam in Africa
  • Short Answer Questions:
    • Mansa Musa’s Hajj
    • Ibn Battuta’s Travels
    • Islam’s Influence on African Culture and Economics

Post-Classical Europe:

• Beginning with the Vikings in the western European isles…
• The Carolingian empire, 814.  Bentley pg. 439
• The dissolution of the Carolingian empire, 843.  Bentley pg. 442
• Regional states of medieval Europe, c. 1000 – 1300.  Bentley pg. 511
• Medieval expansion of Europe, c. 1000 – 1250.  Bentley pg. 530
• Excerpts from the Magna Carta of 1215.
• Peter Charanis: Factors in the Decline of the Byzantine Empire – “500 years later…”
• Crash Course: The Crusades – Pilgrimage or Holy War?
• Post-Classical Mesoamerica:
  • Toltec and Aztec empires, 950 – 1520 – Bentley pg. 543
    • John H. Ingham, “Human Sacrifice at Tenochtitlan”
  • The Inca empire, 1471 – 1532 – Bentley pg. 551

• SAQ: Long Distance Exchange and Commerce

Regional and Inter-regional Interactions c. 600 C.E. to c. 1450: The Post-Classical Era

*The Post-Classical Era Key Concept HW Packet*

Work this week:

• Monday: An introduction to the Post-Classical Era: choosing your regionally-specific groups; identifying which primary source documents from your region you will read w’ your group (use this link).
• Wednesday: your chapter outline page AND your documents printed out.
• Thursday: Crash Course: Islam, The Quran, and the Five Pillars.
• Friday: completed chapter outline AND annotated documents.
• Looking Ahead:
  • Next Monday: CC: Mansa Musa and Islam in Africa.
  • Next Wednesday: CC: Int’l Commerce in the Indian Ocean Basin.
  • Next Thursday: Southernization Reading and Mapping.
  • Next Friday: CC: Wait For It… The Mongols!
  • Next-Next Monday: CC The Dark Ages… How Dark Were They, Really? AND CC The Crusades – Pilgrimage or Holy War?
  • Next-Next Wed.: CC Japan in the Heian Period and Cultural History.
  • Next-Next Friday: Post-Classical Era EXAM.

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Work This Week:

• Tuesday & Wednesday: Regionally-Specific Group Presentations
• Thursday: SAQ Work; organizing our AP World Binders; putting the finishing touches on our Classical Era Key Concept Packet.
• Friday: Classical Era Exam.  30 MCQs & 1 SAQ from an option of 4.

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