Advanced Placement World History with Mr. Duez
Unit 3 AN AGE OF ACCELERATING CONNECTIONS 500–1500
CHAPTER 12 Mongols! The Nomadic World
CHAPTER 11 The Worlds of Islam Afro-Eurasian Connections
CHAPTER 10 Christendom in Western Europe
WEEK AT A GLANCE:MON - Reading Check Quiz - Chapter 11 - Islam; Review Quiz; World's of Islam - Influence & Impact
TUE - Competitive Game - Chapter 10 & 11
WED/THU - TEST Chapters 10 & 11; Documents - Perspectives of the Mongols
FRI - Impact of Mongol Rule; The Black Death
Monday, November 11, 2013
Quote: "History is philosophy teaching by examples." - Thucydides, The History of the Peloponnesian War
Learning Targets:
• Analyze the causes behind the spread of Islam
• Explain how the dynamism of the Islamic world was the most influential of the third-wave civilizations
• Examine the religious divisions within Islam and how they affected political development
• Compare Islam as a source of cultural encounters with Christian, African, and Hindu cultures
• Compare the accomplishments of the Islamic world in the period 600–1500 C.E. with those of their contemporaries.
1. In what ways did the early history of Islam reflect its Arabian origins?
2. How does the core message of Islam compare with that of Judaism and Christianity?
3. In what ways was the rise of Islam revolutionary, both in theory and in practice?
4. Why were Arabs able to construct such a huge empire so quickly?
5. What accounts for the widespread conversion to Islam?
6. What is the difference between Sunni and Shia Islam?
7. In what ways were Sufi Muslims critical of mainstream Islam?
8. How did the rise of Islam change the lives of women?
9. What similarities and differences can you identify in the spread of Islam to India, Anatolia, West Africa, and Spain?
10. Why was Anatolia so much more thoroughly Islamized than India?
11. What makes it possible to speak of the Islamic world as a distinct and coherent civilization?
12. In what ways was the world of Islam a “cosmopolitan civilization”?
Agenda:
1. Reading Check Quiz - Chapter 11 - Islam (You may use your hand written notes).
2. Review the quiz.
3. Notes, Video, & Discussion: Discuss the Impact of Islam - trade, culture, and patriarchy.
Assignments:
Test over Chapter 10 and 11 is on Wed/Thu.
Tuesday, November 12, 2013
Quote: "People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them." - James Baldwin
Learning Targets:
• Analyze the causes behind the spread of Islam
• Explain how the dynamism of the Islamic world was the most influential of the third-wave civilizations
• Examine the religious divisions within Islam and how they affected political development
• Compare Islam as a source of cultural encounters with Christian, African, and Hindu cultures
• Compare the accomplishments of the Islamic world in the period 600–1500 C.E. with those of their contemporaries.
1. In what ways did the early history of Islam reflect its Arabian origins?
2. How does the core message of Islam compare with that of Judaism and Christianity?
3. In what ways was the rise of Islam revolutionary, both in theory and in practice?
4. Why were Arabs able to construct such a huge empire so quickly?
5. What accounts for the widespread conversion to Islam?
6. What is the difference between Sunni and Shia Islam?
7. In what ways were Sufi Muslims critical of mainstream Islam?
8. How did the rise of Islam change the lives of women?
9. What similarities and differences can you identify in the spread of Islam to India, Anatolia, West Africa, and Spain?
10. Why was Anatolia so much more thoroughly Islamized than India?
11. What makes it possible to speak of the Islamic world as a distinct and coherent civilization?
12. In what ways was the world of Islam a “cosmopolitan civilization”?
1. Competitive and Cooperative Teaming: Compete to answer questions regarding Chapter 10 & 11.
Assignments:
Test over Chapter 10 and 11 is on Wed/Thu.
Wednesday, November 13, 2013 & Thursday, November 14, 2013
Quote: "History with its flickering lamp stumbles along the trail of the past, trying to reconstruct its scenes, to revive its echoes, and kindle with pale gleams the passion of former days." - Winston Churchill
Learning Targets:
* Analyze the significance of pastoral societies in world history
* Explain how the conditions of nomadic life differed from the rest of Eurasia
* Explain the impact of the Mongol Empire on world history
* Examine implications of the Eurasian trade sponsored by the Mongols and determine how Eurasian trading systems changed over time.
Essential Questions:
1. Prior to the rise of the Mongols, in what ways had pastoral peoples been significant in world history?
2. What accounts for the often negative attitudes of settled societies toward the pastoral peoples living on their borders? Why have historians often neglected pastoral peoples’ role in world history?
3. In what ways did the Mongol Empire resemble other empires, and in what ways did it differ from them?
4. Why did it last a relatively short time?
5. In what different ways did Mongol rule affect the Islamic world, Russia, China, and Europe?
Agenda:
1. TEST - Chapter 10 & 11. European Christendom & The World of Islam
2. Document Study - Perspectives of the Mongols.
Assignments:
Begin reading Chapter 12 - The Mongol World. We will have a quiz over it on Monday. The test is after the Thanksgiving Break along with Chapter 13 - Worlds of the 15th Century.
Friday, November 15, 2013
Quote: "History is filled with the sound of silken slippers going downstairs and wooden shoes coming up." - Voltaire
Learning Targets:
* Analyze the significance of pastoral societies in world history
* Explain how the conditions of nomadic life differed from the rest of Eurasia
* Explain the impact of the Mongol Empire on world history
* Examine implications of the Eurasian trade sponsored by the Mongols and determine how Eurasian trading systems changed over time.
Essential Questions:
1. Prior to the rise of the Mongols, in what ways had pastoral peoples been significant in world history?
2. What accounts for the often negative attitudes of settled societies toward the pastoral peoples living on their borders? Why have historians often neglected pastoral peoples’ role in world history?
3. In what ways did the Mongol Empire resemble other empires, and in what ways did it differ from them?
4. Why did it last a relatively short time?
5. In what different ways did Mongol rule affect the Islamic world, Russia, China, and Europe?
Agenda:
1. DO NOW: What was the impact of the Mongol rule on the Eurasian world (China, Persia, Russia & Europe)?
2. Notes, Video, & Discussion: Impact of the Black Death.
Assignments:
Begin reading Chapter 12 - The Mongol World. We will have a quiz over it on Monday. The test is after the Thanksgiving Break along with Chapter 13 - Worlds of the 15th Century.
Quiz over Chapter 12 The Mongols on Monday
We will begin prepping for the CCOT Monday after the quiz, Tuesday, & Block day next week. The question will focus on:
1. Analyze continuities and changes that resulted from the spread of Islam into ONE of the following regions in the period between circa 800 C.E. and circa 1750: • West Africa • South Asia • Europe
2. Analyze continuities and changes along the Silk Roads from 200 B.C.E. to 1450 C.E.
3. Analyze continuities and changes in trade networks between Africa and Eurasia from circa 300 C.E. to 1450 C.E