Advanced Placement World History with Mr. Duez
Unit 3 - AN AGE OF ACCELERATING CONNECTIONS 500–1500
CH 12: The Mongols & CH 13: Worlds of the 15th Century
WEEK AT A GLANCE:MON: Video Crash Course World History: Fifteenth Century Mariners; Engineering an Empire: China (Focus on Ming & Zheng He's Exploration)
TUE: Aztec/Inca Comparison; Engineering an Empire - Aztecs
WED/THU: European Renaissance; FRQ Review; Islamic Empires of the 15th Cent.; Paleolithic Persistence; Pass back LEQs: Graphic Organizer for LEQ is due next Monday
FRI: Reading Check Quiz 13, Review Quiz
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Graphic Organizer for LEQ is due next Monday
TEST on Chapter 12 & 13 is next Tuesday.
Review notes, target sheets, and all info for CH 12 & 13 test for next Tuesday
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| This is a seriously tough chapter. Lots to cover. Buckle up baby, grandma's takin' the fast lane. |
• Consider the variety of human experience in the fifteenth century and compare those experiences across cultures.
• Contrast the political and cultural conditions in China’s Ming Dynasty and Europe’s “Renaissance Period” on the cusp of the modern world and analyze why Europe came to dominate the world in the modern era.
• Determine the factors that bring about change in the Islamic world (Middle East and West Africa) in the fifteenth century and analyze the differences between the four Muslim Empires.
• Contrast Aztec and Inca thinking about political administration and culture.
Essential Questions:
1. Assume for the moment that the Chinese had not ended their maritime voyages in 1433. How might the subsequent development of world history have been different? What value is there in asking this kind of “what if ” or counter-factual question?
2. How would you define the major achievements of Ming dynasty China?
3. What political and cultural differences stand out in the histories of fifteenth-century China and Western Europe? What similarities are apparent?
4. In what ways did European maritime voyaging in the fifteenth century differ from that of China? What accounts for these differences?
5. What differences can you identify among the four major empires in the Islamic world of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries?
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| Zheng He? Vasco da Gama? or Columbus? 3 Great Explorers only 1 can emerge victorious! |
Monday, November 28, 2016
Quote: “To be successful you don’t need to do extraordinary things, you just need to do ordinary things extraordinarily well.” – Jim Rohn
Agenda:
1. DO NOW: Copy questions from overhead for Crash Course.
Q1: What political and cultural differences stand out in the histories of fifteenth-century China and Western Europe? What similarities are apparent?
Q2: In what ways did European maritime voyaging in the 15th century differ from that of China? What accounts for these differences?
What political and cultural differences stand out in the histories of fifteenth-century China and Western Europe? What similarities are apparent?
In what ways did European maritime voyaging in the 15th century differ from that of China? What accounts for these differences?
3. Engineering an Empire: China (Focus on Ming & Zheng He's Exploration)
Zheng He & the Ming Dynasty created an amazing naval power only to have the emperor destroy it all.
While students watch the video, they will answer this question:
Assume for the moment that the Chinese had not ended their maritime voyages in 1433. How might the subsequent development of world history have been different? What value is there in asking this kind of “what if ” or counterfactual question?
Assignments:
Graphic Organizer for LEQ is due next Monday
Quiz on Chapter 13 on Friday
TEST on Chapter 12 & 13 is next Tuesday.
Review notes, target sheets, and all info for CH 12 & 13 test for next Tuesday
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| China's "Kind of a Big Deal" - The Islamic World feels a bit confused - Europe's little engines that could... & does. |
Tuesday, November 29, 2016
Quote: “We are what we repeatedly do; excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.” —Aristotle
Agenda:
1. DO NOW: What distinguished the Aztec & Inca empires from each other?
2. Notes/Discussion/Video - Aztecs & Inca Compared
3. VIDEO: Engineering an Empire Aztecs
How did Aztec religious thinking support the empire?
How did the Aztec Empire feed their vast population (possibly 15 million)?
Assignments:
Graphic Organizer for LEQ is due next Monday
Quiz on Chapter 13 on Friday
TEST on Chapter 12 & 13 is next Tuesday.
Review notes, target sheets, and all info for CH 12 & 13 test for next Tuesday
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| One of Mr. Duez's former students studied in Florence during her days at Baylor. Ayla loved it! |
Wednesday, November 30, 2016 & Thursday, December 1, 2016
Quote: “We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all of the power we need inside ourselves already.” - J.K. Rowling
Agenda:
1. DO NOW: What differences can you identify among the four major empires in the Islamic world of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries?
2. Notes, Video, & Discussion: The Islamic World in the 15th Century
3. Notes, Video, & Discussion: Paleolithic Persistence in the 15th Century
4. Pass Back LEQs; Discuss examples of great work & work that needs to be improved;
Graphic Organizer for LEQ is due next Monday
5. Crash Course World History: Renaissance
What energy and inspiration gave rise to the Renaissance? Consider why Europe came to dominate the world in the modern era, & how well this could have been predicted in 1500.
Graphic Organizer for LEQ is due next Monday
Quiz on Chapter 13 on Friday
TEST on Chapter 12 & 13 is next Tuesday.
Review notes, target sheets, and all info for CH 12 & 13 test for next Tuesday
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Friday, December 2, 2016
Quote: “The person who says something is impossible should not interrupt the person who is doing it.” – Chinese proverb
Agenda:
1. DO NOW: Prep for Reading Check Quiz on Chapter 13
2. Reading Check Quiz - Chapter 13 "Worlds of the 15th Century"
3. Review Quiz w/question:
Graphic Organizer for LEQ is due next Monday
TEST on Chapter 12 & 13 is next Tuesday.
Review notes, target sheets, and all info for CH 12 & 13 test for next Tuesday
