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AP World History Unit 3 600-1450 CE Student name
AP World History
Unit 3
600-1450 CE
Student name
600 .–1450 CE Unit 3
1. Questions of periodization
A. Nature and causes of changes in the world history framework leading up to 600 C.E. – 1450 as a period B. Emergence of new empires and political systems C. Continuities and breaks within the period (e.g., the impact of the Mongols on international contacts and on specific societies) The Islamic world A. The rise and role of Dar al-Islam as a unifying cultural and economic force in Eurasia and Africa B. Islamic political structures, notably the caliphate C. Arts, sciences, and technologies Interregional networks and contacts: Development and shifts in interregional trade, technology, and cultural exchange
A. Trans-Sahara trade B. Indian Ocean trade C. Silk routes D. Missionary outreach of major religions E. Contacts between major religions, e.g., Islam and Buddhism, Christianity and Islam F. Impact of the Mongol empires China's internal and external expansion A. The importance of the Tang and Song economic revolutions and the initiatives of the early Ming dynasty B. Chinese influence on surrounding areas and its limits Developments in Europe A. Restructuring of European economic, social, and political institutions B. The division of Christendom into eastern and western Christian cultures Social, cultural, economic, and political patterns in the Amerindian world
A. Maya, Aztec, IncaDemographic and environmental changes
A. Impact of nomadic migrations on Afro-Eurasia and the Americas (e.g., Aztecs, Mongols, Turks, Vikings, and Arabs) B. Migration of agricultural peoples (e.g., Bantu migrations, European peoples to east/central Europe) C. Consequences of plague pandemics in the fourteenth century D. Growth and role of cities Diverse interpretations
A. What are the issues involved in using cultural areas rather than states as units of analysis? B. What are the sources of change: nomadic migrations versus urban growth? C. Was there a world economic network in this period? D. Were there common patterns in the new opportunities available to and constraints placed on elite women in this period?
Major Comparisons and Snapshots
Japanese and European feudalism Developments in political and social institutions in both eastern and western Europe Compare the role and function of cities in major societies Compare Islam and Christianity Gender systems and changes, such as the impact of Islam Aztec Empire and Inca Empire Compare European and sub-Saharan African contacts with the Islamic world
Examples of What You Need to Know
Arab caliphate, but not the transition from Umayyad to 'Abbasid Mamluks, but not Almohads Feudalism, but not specific feudal monarchs such as Richard I Manorialism, but not the three-field system Crusading movement and its impact, but not specific crusades Viking exploration, expansion, and impact, but not individual explorers Mongol expansion and its impact, but not details of specific khanates Papacy, but not particular popes Indian Ocean trading patterns, but not Gujarati merchants
Period 3: Regional and Transregional Interactions, c. 600 to c. 1450 CE
Key Concept 3.1 Expansion and Intensification of Communication and Exchange Networks
1. How did trade networks in the post-Classical Era compare to the Classical Era?
2. What new technologies, governmental policies, and merchant activities accompanied these developments?
3. What role did pastoral and nomadic groups play in these trade networks?
4. How did the physical size of post-Classical trade networks compare to the previous era?
5. What Classical era trade networks continued during the post-classical era, and which new cities were added
during the post-Classical era?
6. What new technologies enabled the growth of inter-regional trade networks?
7. What factors encouraged commercial growth in the post-classical era?
8. How did trans-Eurasian trade as a whole develop during the post-Classical era?
9. What were the effect of migration in the post-classical era?
10. What basic understandings of environment and technology did post-classical traders need to conduct their
business?
11. What were the environmental effects of migration in the post-classical era?
12. What were the linguistic effects of migration in the post-classical era?
13. How did trade networks as a whole develop in the post-classical era?
14. Why and where did Muslim trade networks change in the post-classical era?
15. What institutions did merchants create to foster both trade and cultural diffusion in the post-classical era?
16. How well did post-classical societies know and understand each other?
17. How did post-classical trade affect the diffusion of literary, artistic, and cultural traditions?
18. How did post-classical trade affect the diffusion of scientific and technological traditions?
19. What were the biological effects of post-classical trade?
20. What new foods, crops, and agricultural practices diffused in the post-classical era?
21. What diseases and pathogens also spread via post-classical trade networks?
Key Concept 3.2 Continuity & Innovation of State Forms and Their Interactions
22. How did state formations develop in the post-classical era?
23. How did post-classical states avoid the mistakes of classical empires in the regions where they collapsed?
24. What new forms of governance emerged in the post-classical era?
25. How & where did governmental diffusion occur in the post-classical era?
26. How did states in the Americas develop in the post-classical era?
27. What technological and cultural exchanges did states encourage in the post-classical era?
Key Concept 3.3 Increased Economic Productive Capacity and Its Consequences
28. What were the overall worldwide economic trends in the post-classical era?
29. What new innovations affected agriculture in the post-classical era?
30. How and why did crops migrate during the post-classical era?
31. How did textile and porcelain production develop in the post-classical era?
32. Why did some post-classical urban areas decline?
33. Why did some post-classical urban areas prosper and grow?
34. What roles did cities play in their societies during the post-classical era?
35. How did social and labor systems develop during the post-classical era?
36. What pre-existing labor systems continued through the post-classical era?
37. How did social and gender hierarchies develop in the post-classical era?
38. What new labor forms developed in the post-classical era?
39. Who did some gender roles and family structures change in the post-classical era?
AP Must Know Arts/Architecture Period 3What is this?Byzantine mosaic, found in the Hagia Sophia
What society is this from and where is that society located?
What does it represent?Justinian and Constantine present the Hagia Sophie and Constantinople to the Virgin and ChildWhen was it created?
What is this?Alhambra
What society is this from and where is that society located?
What does it represent?
When was it created?
What is this?Angor Wat
What society is this from and where is that society located?
What does it represent?
When was it created?
What is this?Notre Dam
What society is this from and where is that society located?
What does it represent?
When was it created?
Must Know People Unit 3
Justinian:
Muhammad:
Genghis (Chinggis) Khan:
Kubilai Khan:
Marco Polo:
Ibn Battuta:
Saladin:
Mansa Musa:
Zheng He:
Charlemagne:
Pope Gregory VII:
Erasmus:
Must Know Societies:
A. Sassanid H. Ghana
B. Sui I. China Mali
C. Tang China J. Delhi Sultanate
D. Song China K. Kievan Russia
E. Ming China L. Il-Khanate (Mongol)
F. Yuan (Mongols) China M. Golden Horde (Mongol)
G. Chagatai (Timurids)
Crash Course World History #13: Islam, the Quran, and the Five Pillars All Without a Flamewar
1. How does the Quran differ from the Bible or Old Testament?
2. What are the five pillars of Islam?
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.
3. Define the following
a. Sharia
b. Ummah
c. Muslim
4. How is Islam formation different from the foundation of Christianity (Interims of politics)?
5. Why did Islam split into two sects?
6. What are the two sects? And which believes what?
Islam and Politics-Crash Course
1. Explain what a Caliphate is.
2. List the Four Rightly Guided CaliphsA.
B.
C.
D.
3. What idea was Islamism a response to?
4. Why did the Umayyad Caliphate fall?
Crash Course World History # 14: The Dark Ages...How Dark Were They, Really?1. How is European Feudalism similar to China after the fall of the Han dynasty?
2. Why was there a golden age under the Abbasid Empire? Give at least three examples.
a.
b.
c.
3. Why was Algebra invented? What was the role of religion?
4. What advancements did the Muslims make in Spain?
5. Describe some of the accomplishments of the Tang Empire.
6. What are several advancements of the Song dynasty?
Crash Course World History #15: The Crusades: Pilgrimage or Holy War?1. What was the initial reason for the Crusades?
2. Pilgrimage or Holy war? Explain.
3. What Europeans fought in the crusades?
4. What was the result of the 1st Crusade and why?
5. How was the 3rd crusade radically different, and what was the result?
The Vikings-Crash Course
1. What tool did the Viking cross the Atlantic without?
2. What was one of the reasons for Vikings explorations?
3. What is the most useful tool for telling what the Vikings were like?
4. What was the Vikings primary contact with the rest Europe?
5. What was the territory where the Vikings merged with the Britons called?
Crash Course World History: Russia, the Kievan Rus, and the Mongols1. Who were the Kiev Rus?
2. What was the Kievan Rus economy based on?
3. Why were Russians Byzantine Christians?
4. What impact did Mongols have on Russia? (Hint: Thought Bubble)
5. How did Mongols help catapult Muscovite princes to power?
6. How did the Mongols help unify Russia?
Japan and the Heian Period
1. What time was the Heian period?
2. Why do we know so much about the Heian period?
3. What percent of the population did the Tale of Genji refer to?
4. What could women in the Heian period own that European women couldn’t?
Crash Course World History: Wait for It…The Mongols #171. Why were the Mongols more successful at emerging from Central Asia where larger groups were
not?
2. Genghis Khan successfully united warring groups due to these two factors:
A. B.
3. What was the significance of the Kurultai?
4. The high water point of Mongol Conquests was at the Battle of Ain Jalut. Where was it and what was significant about it?
5. Genghis Khan failed to create a single political unit out of his conquests. After his death, the empire was divided into four khanates. List each and its location by completing the following chart:
Khanate Location
Crash Course World History: Venice and the Ottoman Empire #19
1. What type of government did the Venetians have? Why?
2. How were the Ottomans different from the Mongols?
3. What were 4 significant achievements of the Suleiman the Magnificent?
4. What is the slave aristocracy? Why did the Ottomans’ create this? (Use devshirme in your answer)
5. Discuss the relationship between Venice and the Ottomans?
6. What were several consequences of the Venetian and Ottoman relationship?
Crash Course in World History: The Renaissance: Was it a Thing
1. What are the three more “advanced” ideologies commonly attributed to the Renaissance?
2. Why specifically, did Italy become the center of the Renaissance?
3. How and why did the Venetians become so rich?
4. Why were Florentine textiles so valuable? What were the two ways they acquired the means to make these textiles so valuable (be specific).
5. In what way did the Islamic world contribute to the Renaissance? (Include specifics)
Mansa Musa & Islam in Africa - Crash Course World History #16
1. As Mansa Musa traveled he caused some problems for the places he went – what were those problems, how did he contribute to them, and how bad was it really?
2. Mansa Musa also had an impact on Europe- what was it? How does this tie back into the key concepts?
3. How did the empires of West Africa come to convert to Islam?
4. Why would merchants (and eventually kings and other elites) want to convert to Islam, couldn’t they just follow whatever religion they wanted to? Key concepts anyone?
5. What linked the peoples of East Africa? Give specifics!!a.
b.
c.
Crash Course World History #18: Indian Ocean Trade
1. Who participated in Indian Ocean trading?
2. Why did new cities and empires form along the trade routes?
3. What made Muslim merchants successful enough to be such key players in Indian Ocean trading?
4. How did the “Monsoon Marketplace” contribute to the spread of Islam to places in Asia? Why were people open to embracing Islam?
5. Why is trade not exactly the best strategy to building an empire? How can it lead to the downfall of a city state?
Directions: 600-1450 CE was an era of forging new and strengthening old connections between various regions throughout the Afro-Eurasian World. Examine the map provided. For each numbered arrow, explain the connection between the new areas. Use the chart below. Remember to include key names, dates, and events as they are relevant to the connection. The first one is done for you as an example of what to include.
Route Locations Involved
Connection Details
1 Indian sub-continent, East Africa
The Indian Ocean Trade began with small trading settlements around 800 CE and accelerated during this time. City states grew along the east coast of Africa which came to be known as the “Swahili Coast”.
The city-states traded with inland kingdoms like Great Zimbabwe to obtain gold, ivory, and iron. These materials were then sold to places like Indian, SE Asia, and China. At the same time, the East African city-states were willing to pay high prices for cotton, silk, and porcelain objects.
The invention of dhow ships and lateen sails allowed the movement of goods along the coast and over long distances in the monsoon winds of the Indian Ocean.
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North America/Mesoamerica
South/Latin America
South/Latin America
N/W Africa
S/E/C Africa
East Asia
S/SE Asia
N/C/W Asia
Europe/ Mediterranean
Middle East
Fill in the boxes with major events, trends, patterns, or ideas. Think about the connections! Draw a line from the box to the region.
