AP World History

Unit of Study Outline

1450 C.E.-1750 C.E.

 

Day of Unit

 

 

Topic of

discussion in class

Text Reading Assignment

(To be read PRIOR TO class)

Outside Reading Assignment

(Maybe done in class or outside)

1

Ottomans/Safavids

Chapter 20

Chapter 1

2

Mughals

 

Chapter 1

3

Moscow

 

Chapter 1

4

Inca/Aztecs

 

Chapter 1

5

Ming Dynasty

Chapter 22

Chapter 1

6

Reconquista

 

Chapter 2

7

Colonial Exchange

Chapter 16

Chapter 2

8

Colonial Exchange

Chapter 17

Chapter 2

9

Portugal-Indian Ocean

 

Chapter 2

10

Magellan

 

Chapter 2

11

Songhai

 

Chapter 3

12

West Indies & Sugar

 

Chapter 3

13

Slave Trades

Chapter 21

Chapter 3

14

Slave Trades

 

Chapter 3

15

Coronado

Chapter 19

Chapter 3

16

Disease Spread & Mississippian Culture

 

Chapter 4

17

Review and Test Prep.

 

Chapter 4

18

TEST!!!!

 

Chapter 4

19

Manchu Dynasty

 

Chapter 4

20

Tokugawa Japan

 

Chapter 4

21

Peter the Great

Chapter 18

Chapter 5

22

Louis XIV (Sun King)

 

Chapter 5

23

Dutch East India Co.

 

Chapter 5

24

British East India Co.

 

Chapter 5

25

New Spain

 

Chapter 5

26

Potosi (Spanish Silver)

 

Chapter 6

27

Scientific Revolution

Chapter 16

Chapter 6

28

Enlightenment

 

Chapter 6

29

Review/Test Prep.

 

Chapter 6

30

Review for Final

 

 

31

Review for Final

 

 

 

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: