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Unit Plan – Chapter 13
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Learning Objectives
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I can step back and consider the variety of human experience in the 15 th century.
I can compare conditions in China and Europe on the cusp of the modern world.
I can consider why Europe came to dominate the world in the modern era, and how
well this could have been predicted in 1500.
I can examine and analyze the Islamic world in the 15th century.
I can analyze a preview of important trends to come in the modern world.
Opening Vignette
A.
What was the significance of the year 2005 in China?
B.
Why was Columbus so much more remembered?
C.
Why was the 15th century such an important turning point in world history?
D.
The purpose of this chapter is to review the human story up to the 16th century and
establish a baseline with which to measure the transformations of the period 1500
CE to 2011 CE.
The Shapes of Human Communities
A.
How had the balance of societies shifted between 500 CE and 1500 CE?
B.
Paleolithic Persistence
1.
Where did hunting and gathering societies still exist in 1500?
2.
How had they changed over time?
3.
What were some of the characteristics of Australian hunters and gatherers
in 1500?
C.
4.
In what ways did the peoples of northwest North America develop
differently?
5.
What effect did farming have elsewhere in Paleolithic lands?
Agricultural Village Societies
1.
Where were the agricultural village societies?
2.
How were these village societies different from the other civilizations that
were developing at this time?
3.
How were the Yoruba people, the kingdom of Benin, and the Igbo peoples
of southern Nigeria similar and different?
4.
What major changes did agricultural village societies in what is now central
New York undergo in the centuries before 1500?
D.
IV.
Herding Peoples
1.
What were accomplishments and the significance of the Turkic warrior
Timur (Tamerlane) in his attempt to restore the Mongol Empire ca 1400?
2.
What happened to the steppe nomads’ homeland in the centuries that
followed?
3.
What happened to the African pastoralists?
4.
What happened to the Fulbe people of West Africa from 1000 CE to 1900
CE?
Civilizations of the 15th Century: Comparing China and Europe
A.
What significant trend was established by 1500 in relation to the location of the
world’s population?
B.
Ming Dynasty China
1.
What had disrupted China’s development for so many years?
2.
In what ways did China begin to recover during the reign of the Ming
Dynasty?
3.
Reestablishment of the civil service exams
C.
D.
4.
In what ways did China create a highly centralized government?
5.
What was the significance of the maritime ventures of the early 15th century
in China? What became of them and why?
European Comparisons: State building and Cultural renewal
1.
What similar processes were present in China and Europe during this
period?
2.
What was happening to the European population and state-building during
the 15th century?
3.
What was the Renaissance in Europe? Who was involved? Where was it
centered?
European Comparisons: Maritime Voyaging
1.
What role did Portugal play in early exploration?
V.
2.
Who were Christopher Columbus and Vasco de Gama?
3.
How do the European voyages and the Chinese voyages compare?
Civilizations of the 15th Century: The Islamic World
A.
The long-fragmented Islamic world crystallized into four major states or Empires
B.
The Islamic Heartland: The Ottoman and Safavid Empires
C.
1.
Describe the Ottoman Empire from the 14 th century to the 20th century
2.
In what ways did the Ottomans show aggression towards Christianity?
3.
Where did the Safavid Empire come from and what was it like?
4.
What was the relationship between the Sunni Ottomans and the Shia
Safavids like?
On the Frontiers of Islam: The Songhay and the Mughal Empires
D.
VI.
1.
Where was the Songhay Empire? How did it rise? What was it like?
2.
Where was the Mughal Empire? How did it rise? What was it like?
Why is the emergence of these four empires sometimes called “the second flowering
of Islam?” What was the significance of the city of Malacca?
Civilizations of the 15th century: the Americas
A.
How did the Aztecs and Incas develop similarly?
B.
The Aztec Empire
1.
Who ewer the Mexica and what did they do?
2.
What was the Triple Allaince and what did it accomplaish?
3.
What were the characteristics of Aztec population, tribute, and trade?
C.
4.
What was the importance of the slave trade in the Aztec Empire?
5.
What was the focus of the philosophical and poetic tradition of the Aztecs?
The Inca Empire
1.
Who established the Incas? Where were they located? Population? Size?
2.
In what ways were the Incas more bureaucratic and centralized than the
Aztecs?
3.
In what ways did the Incas attempt cultural integration?
4.
What were in the citizens’ responsibilities towards the Inca state and what
did they get in return?
D.
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VIII.
In what ways did the Incas and Aztecs practice “gender parallelism”?
Webs of Connection
A.
Large-scale political systems brought together culturally different people.
B.
How did religion both unite and divide far-flung peoples?
C.
Patterns of trade
1.
Where was trade going during this period?
2.
in what ways was the balance of Afro-Eurasian trade changing?
A Preview of Coming Attractions: Looking Ahead to the Modern Era (1500 to 2011 CE)
A.
When and where di truly global connections come into being?
B.
In what ways did the first “modern” humans emerge in Europe during the
19thcentury?
C.
In what ways did the prominence of European peoples grow over the next 500 years
of History?
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Reflections: What if? Chance and Contingency in World History
A.
What if Ogodei Khan had not died in 1241 and the Mongols continued their
advance into Europe?
B.
What if China had continued maritime exploration after 1433?
C.
What if the ottomans had taken Vienna in 1529?
Key Terms / People/ Places
Aztec Empire
Christopher Columbus
Fulbe
Hundred Years’ War
Iroquois League of Five Nations
Ming Dynasty
Ottoman Empire
European Renaissance
Tenochtitlán
Triple Alliance
Benin
Fall of Constantinople
Vasco de Gama
Igbo
Malacca
Mughal Empire
Paleolithic persistence
Safavid Empire
Timbuktu
Yongle
“chosen women”
“firestick farming”
Huitzilopochtli
Inca Empire
Mexica
Nezahualcoyotl
pochteca
Songhay Empire
Timur
Zheng He