Key Concept 3.1. Expansion and Intensification of Communication and Exchange Networks
I. Improved transportation technologies and commercial practices led to an increased volume of trade, and expanded the geographical range of existing and newly active trade networks.
II. The movement of peoples caused environmental and linguistic effects.
III. Cross-cultural exchanges were fostered by the intensification of existing, or the creation of new, networks of trade and communication.
IV. There was continued diffusion of crops and pathogens throughout the Eastern Hemisphere along the trade routes.
Key Concept 3.2. Continuity and Innovation of State Forms and Their Interactions
I. Empires collapsed and were reconstituted; in some regions new state forms emerged.
II. Interregional contacts and conflicts between states and empires encouraged significant technological and cultural transfers. Required examples of technological and cultural transfers: Between Tang China and the Abbasids, Across the Mongol empires, During the Crusades.
Key Concept 3.3. Increased Economic Productive Capacity and Its Consequences
I. Innovations stimulated agricultural and industrial production in many regions.II. The fate of cities varied greatly, with periods of significant decline, and with periods of increased urbanization buoyed by rising productivity and expanding trade networks.
III. Despite significant continuities in social structures and in methods of production, there were also some important changes in labor management and in the effect of religious conversion on gender relations and family life.
Quote of the Day: "I dream of a better tomorrow, where chickens can cross the road and not be questioned about their motives." - Annon
Agenda:
1. Video Study - China: Triumph & Turmoil Episode I - Emperors
2. Students will answer these questions with the video.
3. We will discuss the video either at the end of this period, or beginning of the next.
Tuesday, April 24, 2012
Quote of the Day: "Without me, it's just aweso." - Anon
Agenda:
ONLY Periods 5 and 6 will meet today.
Period 5: 11:29 - 12:53
Period 6: 1:00 - 2:45
1. Video Study - China: Triumph & Turmoil Episode II - Maostalgia
2. Students will answer these questions with the video.
3. We will discuss the video either at the end of the period, or beginning of the next.
Wednesday/Thursday, April 25/26, 2012
Quote of the Day: "Before you insult a man, walk a mile in his shoes. That way, when you insult him, you'll be a mile away, and have his shoes." - Anon
Agenda:
Only Periods 3, 4, and 5 will meet Wednesday.
3rd 7:25 – 9:20
4th 9:27 – 11:22
5th 11:29 – 12:53
A Lunch 11:22 – 11:49
Only Periods 4 and 6 will meet on Thursday.
4th 12:07 – 1:31
A Lunch 12:00 – 12:27
6th 1:38 – 2:45
1. Video Study - China: Triumph & Turmoil Episode III - Superpower
2. Students will answer these questions with the video.
3. We will discuss the video at the end of the period, or beginning of the next.
Friday, April 27, 2012
Quote of the Day: "Light travels faster than sound. That's why some people appear bright until you hear them speak." - Anon
Agenda:
Only Periods 3, 5, and 7 will meet on Friday.
3rd 11:02 – 12:01
5th 12:08 – 1:32
A Lunch 12:01 – 12:28
7th 1:39 – 2:45
1. We will finish any of the Video Study on China that we may not have been able to complete. (Our schedule this week is very different for each period, so it may be different for each class.)
2. We will discuss the Chinese videos and discuss China as a whole.
3. Students will debate in a Philosophical Chairs discussion:
"Is China going to keep growing and become the world's superpower?
Or will it collapse as it has done at times in it's history?"
Next Week: AP Test Corrections due on Tuesday.
Wed/Thu is the 2nd AP Test Multiple Choice. 70 Questions in 55 minutes.
Next Friday we will write a comparison essay. The only thing that you will know prior to the comparison essay is the period the question will come from: Period #4: Global Interactions - 1450 to 1750.
