Advanced Placement World History
Unit 4 - Early Modern World, 1450-1750
Chapter 14 - Empires & Encounters, 1450-1750
Chapter 15 - World Commerce, 1450-1750
Week at a GlanceMon - Quiz CH 15; Colonial Differences in New World; Russian Empire Trade
Tue - European Expansion in Americas, Asia, and Africa.
Wed/Thu - Slave Trade; Fur Trade; Silver Trade; World Commerce. Review for Test 14 & 15.
Fri - TEST CH 14 & 15
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Monday, January 14, 2013
Quote of the Day: "You're alive. Do something. The directive in life, the moral imperative was so uncomplicated. It could be expressed in single words, not complete sentences. It sounded like this: Look. Listen. Choose. Act." - Barbara Hall, A Summons to New Orleans, 2000
Learning Targets:
• Identify the factors behind the creation of the first true global economy in the period 1450–1750
• Examine Western European commercial expansion in a context that gives due weight to the contributions of other societies
• Compare emerging Europe's growing economy to that of China, the world’s largest economy in the early modern period
• Analyze factors responsible for high costs of the commercial boom of the early modern period in ecological and human terms
• Compare various models of trading post empires that were created in this period
Essential Questions:
1. How should we distribute the moral responsibility for the Atlantic slave trade?
2. What was the world historical importance of the silver trade?
3. Describe the impact of the fur trade on North American native societies.
4. How did the North American and Siberian fur trades differ from each other? What did they have in common?
5. What was distinctive about the Atlantic slave trade? What did it share with other patterns of slave owning and slave trading?
6. What explains the rise of the Atlantic slave trade?
7. What roles did Europeans and Africans play in the unfolding of the Atlantic slave trade?
8. In what different ways did the Atlantic slave trade transform African societies?
Agenda:
1. Quiz Ch 15
2. Do Now Question: How should we distribute the moral responsibility for the Atlantic slave trade?
3. Finish Notes, Discussion, & Video: Comparing British and Spanish Colonies in the Americas
Tuesday, January 15, 2013
Quote of the Day: "Life is something that everyone should try at least once." - Henry J. Tillman
Learning Targets:
• Identify the factors behind the creation of the first true global economy in the period 1450–1750
• Examine Western European commercial expansion in a context that gives due weight to the contributions of other societies
• Compare emerging Europe's growing economy to that of China, the world’s largest economy in the early modern period
• Analyze factors responsible for high costs of the commercial boom of the early modern period in ecological and human terms
• Compare various models of trading post empires that were created in this period
Essential Questions:
1. In what specific ways did trade foster change in the world of the early modern era?
2. To what extent did Europeans transform earlier patterns of commerce, and in what ways did they assimilate into those older patterns?
3. Describe and account for the differing outcomes of European expansion in the Americas (see Chapter 14), Africa, and Asia.
4. What drove European involvement in the world of Asian commerce?
5. To what extent did the Portuguese realize their own goals in the Indian Ocean?
6. How did the Portuguese, Spanish, Dutch, and British initiatives in Asia differ from one another?
7. To what extent did the British and Dutch trading companies change the societies they encountered in Asia?
Agenda:
1. Do Now Question: How did the Portuguese, Spanish, Dutch, and British initiatives in Asia differ from one another?
2. Notes, Discussion, & Video: Chapter 15 - World Commerce.
Wednesday, January 16, 2013 & Thursdays, January 17, 2013
Quote of the Day: "Life is difficult and complicated and beyond anyone's total control, and the humility to know that will enable you to survive its vicissitudes." - J. K. Rowling, Harvard Commencement Address, 2008
Learning Targets:
• Identify the factors behind the creation of the first true global economy in the period 1450–1750
• Examine Western European commercial expansion in a context that gives due weight to the contributions of other societies
• Compare emerging Europe's growing economy to that of China, the world’s largest economy in the early modern period
• Analyze factors responsible for high costs of the commercial boom of the early modern period in ecological and human terms
• Compare various models of trading post empires that were created in this period
Essential Questions:
1. In what specific ways did trade foster change in the world of the early modern era?
2. To what extent did Europeans transform earlier patterns of commerce, and in what ways did they assimilate into those older patterns?
3. Describe and account for the differing outcomes of European expansion in the Americas (see Chapter 14), Africa, and Asia.
4. What drove European involvement in the world of Asian commerce?
5. To what extent did the Portuguese realize their own goals in the Indian Ocean?
6. How did the Portuguese, Spanish, Dutch, and British initiatives in Asia differ from one another?
7. To what extent did the British and Dutch trading companies change the societies they encountered in Asia?
Agenda:
1. Do Now: Pick up document analysis paper from the front, read the document about a slave's journey, answer the 3 questions at the end on a separate sheet of paper.
2. Notes, Discussion, Video:
3. CH 14 & 15 Review: Compare the 3 "S's" of this pre-modern world trade:
"Silver" "Slaves" and "Soft Gold (Furs)"
Friday, January 18, 2013
Quote of the Day: "Difficulties come when you don't pay attention to life's whisper. Life always whispers to you first, but if you ignore the whisper, sooner or later you'll get a scream." - Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), Stanford Commencement Adress, 2008
Agenda:
1. TEST CHAPTER 14 & 15
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