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: Quiz Ch. 12 - "Pastoralists on the World's Stage: The Mongols"; Quiz Review
TUE: The Great Mariners of Unit 3: Crash Course: Fifteenth Century Mariners; Engineering an Empire: China (Focus on Ming & Zheng He's Exploration); Paleolithic Persistence; The Renaissance
WED/THU: Aztec/Inca Comparison; Engineering an Empire - Aztecs; European Renaissance; Islamic Empires of the 15th Cent.; Paleolithic Persistence
FRI: Reading Check Quiz 13, Review Quiz
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This FRIDAY: Quiz CH 13
TEST on Chapter 12 & 13 is next Tuesday
Review notes, target sheets, and all info for CH 12 & 13 test for next Tuesday
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?
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| This is a seriously tough chapter. Lots to cover. Buckle up baby, grandma's takin' the fast lane. |
Learning Targets:
• 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 27, 2017
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. Quiz - CH 12: The Pastoral Peoples on the World Stage: "The Mongols!"
2. Review Quiz
Assignments:
This FRIDAY: Quiz CH 13
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 28, 2017
Quote: “We are what we repeatedly do; excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.” —Aristotle
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:
This FRIDAY: Quiz CH 13
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 29, 2017
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 distinguished the Aztec & Inca empires from each other?
2. Notes/Discussion/Video - What distinguished the Aztec & Inca empires from each other?
Aztecs & Inca Compared
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)?
3. Notes, Video, & Discussion: What differences can you identify among the four major empires in the Islamic world of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries?
4. Notes, Video, & Discussion: How has the paleolithic lifestyle continued all the way through Unit 3 & into the 1400s?
Paleolithic Persistence in the 15th Century
IF TIME: 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.
This FRIDAY: Quiz CH 13
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 1, 2017
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:
Assignments:
This FRIDAY: Quiz CH 13
TEST on Chapter 12 & 13 is next Tuesday
Review notes, target sheets, and all info for CH 12 & 13 test for next Tuesday
