AP World History
1450 C.E.-1750 C.E.
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Day of Unit
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Topic of discussion in class |
Text Reading Assignment (To be read PRIOR TO class) |
Outside Reading Assignment (Maybe done in class or outside) |
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1 |
Ottomans/Safavids |
Chapter 20 |
Chapter 1 |
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2 |
Mughals |
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Chapter 1 |
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3 |
Moscow |
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Chapter 1 |
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4 |
Inca/Aztecs |
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Chapter 1 |
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5 |
Ming Dynasty |
Chapter 22 |
Chapter 1 |
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6 |
Reconquista |
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Chapter 2 |
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7 |
Colonial Exchange |
Chapter 16 |
Chapter 2 |
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8 |
Colonial Exchange |
Chapter 17 |
Chapter 2 |
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9 |
Portugal-Indian Ocean |
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Chapter 2 |
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10 |
Magellan |
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Chapter 2 |
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11 |
Songhai |
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Chapter 3 |
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12 |
West Indies & Sugar |
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Chapter 3 |
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13 |
Slave Trades |
Chapter 21 |
Chapter 3 |
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14 |
Slave Trades |
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Chapter 3 |
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15 |
Coronado |
Chapter 19 |
Chapter 3 |
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16 |
Disease Spread & Mississippian Culture |
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Chapter 4 |
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17 |
Review and Test Prep. |
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Chapter 4 |
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18 |
TEST!!!! |
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Chapter 4 |
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19 |
Manchu Dynasty |
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Chapter 4 |
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20 |
Tokugawa Japan |
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Chapter 4 |
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21 |
Peter the Great |
Chapter 18 |
Chapter 5 |
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22 |
Louis XIV (Sun King) |
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Chapter 5 |
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23 |
Dutch East India Co. |
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Chapter 5 |
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24 |
British East India Co. |
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Chapter 5 |
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25 |
New Spain |
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Chapter 5 |
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26 |
Potosi (Spanish Silver) |
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Chapter 6 |
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27 |
Scientific Revolution |
Chapter 16 |
Chapter 6 |
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28 |
Enlightenment |
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Chapter 6 |
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29 |
Review/Test Prep. |
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Chapter 6 |
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30 |
Review for Final |
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31 |
Review for Final |
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1450 C.E. to 1750 C.E.
What students are expected to know:
Major Developments:
1. Questions of Periodization
Continuities and breaks, causes of changes from the previous period and within this period
2. Changes in trade, technology, and global interactions (e.g. the Columbian Exchange, the impact of guns, changes in shipbuilding, and navigational devices)
3. Knowledge of major empires and other political units and social systems
a. Ottoman, China, Portugal, Spain, Russia, France, England, Tokugawa, Mughal, characteristics of African empires in general but knowing one (Kongo, Benin, Oyo, or Songhay) as illustrative
b. Gender and empire (including the role of women in households and in politics)
4. Slave systems and slave trade
5. Demographic and environmental changes: diseases, animals, new crops, and comparative population trends
6. Cultural and intellectual developments
a. Scientific Revolution & the Enlightenment
b. Comparative global causes and impacts of cultural change (e.g. African contributions to cultures in the Americas)
c. Changes and continuities in Confucianism
d. Major developments and exchanges in the arts (e.g., Mughal)
7. Diverse interpretations
a. What are the debates about the timing and extent of European predominance in the world economy?
b. How does the world economic system of this period compare with the world economic network of the previous period?
Major Comparisons and Snapshots
· Analyze imperial systems: European monarchy compared with a land-based Asian empire
· Compare coercive labor systems: slavery and other coercive labor systems in the Americas
· Understand the development of empire (i.e., general empire building in Asia, Africa, and Europe)
· Compare Russia’s interaction with the West with the interaction of one of the following (Ottoman Empire, China, Tokugawa Japan, Mughal India) with the West
Examples of the types of information students are expected to know contrasted with examples of those things students are not expected to know for the multiple-choice section: