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: Pick up "The Breakup DBQ" - due on Friday in class; Fifteenth Century Mariners; Engineering an Empire: China (Focus on Ming & Zheng He's Exploration)
TUE: Paleolithic Persistence in the 15th Century
WED/THU: SAQ Practice; SAQ from previous test - review samples;
Engineering an Empire - Aztecs; Crash Course: Renaissance: Was it a Thing?; European Renaissance
FRI: Due: "The Breakup DBQ" - we will also discuss in class; Islamic Empires of the 15th Cent.
ASSIGNMENTS:
"The Breakup DBQ" - due on Friday in class
Tuesday, Dec. 4th - TEST: Unit 2, Part B CH 12 & 13
Wed/Thu, Dec. 5th & 6th - MOCK AP TEST - First Semester Only M/Ch & SAQ
CH. 12 - Pastoral People's on the World's Stage: The Mongols!
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?
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?
Quote of the Day: "Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage." Lao Tzu
1. DO NOW: Pick up "The Breakup DBQ" - due on Friday in class
2. Notes, Video, Discussion: Fifteenth Century Mariners; Engineering an Empire: China (Focus on Ming & Zheng He's Exploration)
ASSIGNMENTS:
"The Breakup DBQ" - due on Friday in class
Tuesday, Dec. 4th - TEST: Unit 2, Part B CH 12 & 13
Wed/Thu, Dec. 5th & 6th - MOCK AP TEST - First Semester Only M/Ch & SAQ
Quote of the Day: "The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection." Thomas Paine
1. DO NOW: Why did China build Zheng He's fleet? Why motivated Europeans to build little ships?
2. Notes, Video, Discussion: Paleolithic Persistence in the 15th Century
ASSIGNMENTS:
"The Breakup DBQ" - due on Friday in class
Tuesday, Dec. 4th - TEST: Unit 2, Part B CH 12 & 13
Wed/Thu, Dec. 5th & 6th - MOCK AP TEST - First Semester Only M/Ch & SAQ
& Thursday, November 29, 2018
Quote of the Day: "Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved." - Helen Keller
1. DO NOW: Pick up the handouts for the SAQ practice on the front table.
What is the POV of the author of the document?
European Renaissance
3. Notes, Video, Discussion: Engineering an Empire - Aztecs
ASSIGNMENTS:
"The Breakup DBQ" - due on Friday in class
Tuesday, Dec. 4th - TEST: Unit 2, Part B CH 12 & 13
Wed/Thu, Dec. 5th & 6th - MOCK AP TEST - First Semester Only M/Ch & SAQ
Quote of the Day: "A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles." - Christopher Reeve
1. DO NOW: Pass back SAQ responses from previous test. Go over samples of previous work - both good and not so good examples.
2. Notes, Video, Discussion: Islamic Empires of the 15th Cent.
ASSIGNMENTS:
Tuesday, Dec. 4th - TEST: Unit 2, Part B CH 12 & 13
Wed/Thu, Dec. 5th & 6th - MOCK AP TEST - First Semester Only M/Ch & SAQ
