Download PERIOD 4 ASSIGNMENT CALENDAR Assignments (Note that

PERIOD 4 ASSIGNMENT CALENDAR
Assignments (Note that homework assignments are DUE on the days
Vocabulary- Identify the
ELT
listed.
historical significance of each
&
item, not just the definition.
Map IDs
WEEK 1 Jan 7th-11th
M Get excited!!! It’s AP World History! Yaaaay! 
Effort & Success
DBQ WHAAA?
T Complete map and Ming China SPICE chart Pg. 575-578
Zheng He, treasure ships, Yongle
W 15th century Europe SPICE chart Pg 578-580
Italian city-states, centralized
Places:
Class questions:
government, fragmented,
Venice, Milan,
1) In what ways did the Renaissance affect Europe?
Renaissance, humanism,
2) How does “The Prince” reflect the ideas of humanism, secularism, and
Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Guangzhou,
Malacca,
individualism? What can it tell us about early modern politics in Europe?
Machiavelli
Calicut,
R 1) How and why did European maritime voyaging differ from Chinese
Columbus, Vasco da Gama,
Florence,
maritime voyaging? Pg. 580-584
Magellan, Dias,
Beijing,
2) What factors made voyaging possible?
Christendom
F New Encounters Assignment (Edmodo) 0R Pg. 626-631 questions
Hernan Cortes, genocide, small
states, Kilwa
1) What enabled Europeans to carve out huge empires an ocean away
pox, indigenous, potatoes, corn,
from their homelands?
globalization, Old World, New
2) State significant facts about “The Great Dying”
World, conquistadores, guns,
3) What was the Columbian Exchange and how did it change world
germs, steel
history? Today: Quiz on vocab/questions/places from Tue-Thu
Critical Thinking Question for the week:
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? Is there value in asking this kind of “what if” or counterfactual question? Or is it an irrelevant
waste of time?
WEEK 2 Jan 14th-18th
M SPICE Chart for colonial America (divide chart to show three colonial
Mercantilism, bullion,
Grouping
societies: Aztec/Inca lands, Sugar colonies, North America) Pg. 631-639
conquistadores, creoles,
Documents
(Only Aztec/Inca section need to be completed)
peninsulares, mestizo
practice
T Finish SPICE Chart for colonial America (sugar colonies & North America)
Sugar, monopoly, mulattoes, cash
Places:
**The following questions we will answer in class.
crops, capitalists, Puritans, royal
1) How did the plantation societies of Brazil and the Caribbean differ from those of charter
Mesoamerica
southern colonies in British North America?
Peru
2) How did these societies compare to those of Spanish America?
Brazil
3) What accounts for the similarities and differences?
Caribbean
4) In what different ways was European colonial rule expressed and experienced in
British/Dutch
the Americas?
colonies in NA
W SPICE (Portuguese empire, Spanish Philippines) 674-679
Spices, gunpowder, capital,
Goa
1) What drove European involvement in the world of Asian commerce?
Venice, trading post empire,
Calcutta
2) To what extent did the Portuguese realize their own goals in the Indian Ocean?
cartaz, sultan of Oman, Philip II,
Bombay
coerced labor, Manila
Madras
R Pg 679-680; 682-688
Charter, trading monopoly, Dutch
Mombasa
1)To what extent did the British and Dutch trading companies change the
East India Company, British East
Macao
societies they encountered in Asia?
India Company, cotton, silver
Hormuz
2)What was the world historical importance of the silver trade?
drain, fur trade, Little Ice Age,
Philippines
3) Describe the impact of the fur trade on Native American societies.
rum
Manila
4) How did the North American and Siberian fur trades differ from each
Spice Islands
other? What did they have in common?
Java
F Pg. 689-695
Chattel slavery, indentured
Sumatra
1) What was distinctive about the Atlantic slave trade? What did it share
servitude, African Diaspora,
Siberia
with other patterns of slave owning and slave trading?
Middle Passage, triangular trade,
Gold Coast
2) What explains the rise of the Atlantic Slave trade?
Olaudah Equiano
Kongo
3) What roles did Europeans and Africans play in the unfolding of the
Benin/Dahomy
African slave trade?
Today: Quiz over vocab/questions/places from Friday-Wednesday
Critical Thinking Question for the week:
1) What lasting legacies of early modern globalization are evident in the early twenty-first century?
2) Did the Europeans commit acts of genocide in their attempts to establish maritime empires? Explain.
WEEK 3 Jan 21st-25th
M Vacation Day!!! Woot woot!! Work on your Columbian Exchange Project
T Nothing due today, just work on Columbian Exchange Project
Today: Quiz over vocab/questions/places from Thursday/Friday
W SPICE for Qing China
pg. 643-645
Vocabulary: (We will do in class)
Tokugawa shogunate, daimyo
elite, woodblock printing, Kabuki
Manchus, Tibet, Xinjiang
1) What methods did the rulers use to legitimize and consolidate their power?
2) What were the major features of Chinese empire building during this time
period?
R SPICE chart for Ottomans and Safavid empires p584-586; 647-650
1) What role did the Ottomans play in the global commercial trade network?
2) What methods did the rulers use to legitimize and consolidate their power?
3) In what ways was the Ottoman important for Europe in the early modern era?
Think in terms of empire.
F SPICE chart for Mughal empire pg. 586-588
1) How did Mughal attitudes and policies toward Hindus change from the time of
Akbar to that of Aurangzeb?
2) What methods did the rulers use to legitimize and consolidate their power?
3) To what extent was the Mughal empire a cosmopolitan empire?
Caliph, Constantinople, Sufi, Shia,
Sunni, sultan, devshirme,
janissary, Suleiman, siege at
Vienna, Constantinople 1453
“second flowering of Islam”,
Akbar, Jahangir, jizya, sati,
Aurangzeb, Taj Mahal
Work on DBQ
thesis and how
to include
documents in
Essay
*Essay due next
ELT
Places:
Tibet
Xinjiang
Manchuria
Ottoman empire
Istanbul
Balkans
Vienna
Safavid empire
Mughal emp
Delhi
Critical Thinking Question for the week:
1)
2)
Why did the European empires in the Americas have such an enormously greater impact on the conquered people than did the Chinese,
Mughal, and Ottoman empires?
In what ways did the empires of the early modern era continue the patterns of earlier empires? In what ways did they depart?
WEEK 4 Jan 28th-Feb 1st
M RUSSIAN SPICE pg. 639-643
1) What motivated Russian empire building?
2) What methods did the rulers use to legitimize and consolidate their power?
3) How did the Russian empire transform the life of its conquered people and the
Russian homeland itself?
4) How does Russian attempts at empire development compare to other regions
we have covered?
Today: Vocab/Map/Question Quiz Tuesday-Friday
T Town Hall Meeting: State-building in the early modern era
W Pg 721-727
1) In what ways did the Protestant Reformation transform European society,
culture, and politics?
2) What were some of the key differences between Catholic and Protestant
beliefs?
R Pg. 727-732
1) In what ways did the Catholic Church attempt to counter the popularity of the
Protestant faith?
2) In what ways was European Christianity assimilated into Native American
Culture?
3) Why were missionary efforts to spread Christianity so much less successful in
China than in Spanish America?
F No homework due, just review for quiz.
Peter the Great, Catherine the
Great, tsar(czar), yasak, Cossacks,
Slavs, divine right
Martin Luther, Protestant
Reformation, indulgences,
printing press, John Calvin,
Huguenots
Take Home
Essays Due
Places:
Moscow
Siberia
Russian emp
St. Petersburg
Worms
Wittenberg
Catholic Reformation, Council of
Trent, Inquisition, Thirty Years
War, Jesuits, heretic, idolaters,
Matteo Ricci
Vocab for class: Vodun, Santeria,
Bhakti, Sikhism, Wahhabi Islam
Critical Thinking Question for the week:
1) Why did Christianity take hold in some places more than others?
2) In what ways was the spread of Christianity shaped by the cultures of Asian and American people.
3) Compare the process by which Christianity and Islam became world religions.
WEEK 5 Feb 4th-8th
M Review
T Review
W Period 4 Exam today Multiple Choice w/ Timed Essay (see below)
Essay: Analyze the social and economic transformations that occurred in the Atlantic world as a result of new contacts among
Western Europe, Africa, and the Americas from 1492 to 1750.