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__**Unit 2: 600 C.E. – 1450**__

7 Weeks

__**Key Concepts:**__ • Examine, discuss, compare and contrast, religions and their early history. • Discuss and evaluate the impact, interactions, conflict, and cooperation of world religions. • Evaluate the social, political, and intellectual views and effects of religions worldwide. • Discuss world trade and its effects on various populations including but not limited to the Americas, Sub-Saharan Africa, West Africa, Muslim and Jewish Traders, Indian Ocean Trade, Asia (including the Silk Road), and the Mongols. • Continue the examination of Chinese dynasties, and Chinese attitudes toward others. • Examine the spread, effects, and various reactions to the Black Death. Discuss differing reactions of the Islamic and Christian world. • Discuss the Jewish diaspora. • Discuss, assess, synthesize, and evaluate the change and continuity in Europe during the Middle Ages through the Renaissance. • Evaluate the cause, effect, and importance of major migrations including, but not limited to Bantu, Mongol, and Native American. • Examine, discuss, and evaluate the motives, impact, and effects of early European exploration. • Identify, apply, and perfect comparison and contrast skills. o Preparing for the comparison essay.

__**Spodek Readings:**__ Chapter 9: Hinduism and Buddhism Chapter 10: Judaism and Christianity Chapter 11: Islam Chapter 12: Establishing World Trade Routes Chapter 13: European Visions

__**Primary and Secondary Source Readings:**__ Marco Polo: The Book of Ser Marco Polo “Ibn Buttuta in Mali” by Ibn Battuta “Chinese ships in Indian Harbors” by Ibn Battuta Giovanni Boccaccio describes the plague Journal: Columbus’s First Voyage to the Americas Oration on the Dignity of Man by Mirandola The Courtier by Castiglione Bernal Diaz de Castillo “Cut off their Hands, Ears, and Noses” by Gaspar Correa “Persecutor Becomes Protector” by Bartolome’ De Las Casas: “Our Kingdom is being Lost” by Nzinga Mbemba

__**AP Skills and Concepts Regarding the Six Themes:**__ Periodization Migration & Urbanization Occupational specialization and class structure Primary and Secondary Document Analysis Point of view & Historiography Diverse Interpretations Critical Reading Metacognition Document Based Questions Influence of Geography and the Environment on Human Settlement Comparative Philosophies/Religions

__**Writing Activities and Projects: **__ FRQ: Comparative Analysis Socratic Seminar-Columbian Exchange/Impact and Interaction Thematic Mind Maps Test

__**Unit II **__ Suggested Websites:

Constantinople - http://w4u.eexi.gr/~ippotis/consten.html

Imperial China - http://www-chaos.umd.edu/history/imperial2.html

Holy Roman Empire - http://www.lucidcafe.com/library/96apr/charlemagne.html

The Byzantine Empire - http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~dee/MA/BYZ.HTM

Mali - http://webusers.xula.edu/jrotondo/Kingdoms/Mali/MaliHistNarr.htm

Ibn Battuta - http://www.ummah.net/history/scholars/ibn_battuta/

The Plague- http://www.themiddleages.net/plague.html

Middle Ages- http://www.learner.org/exhibits/middleages/feudal.html Guilds - http://www.public.iastate.edu/~gbetcher/373/guilds.htm

Medici - http://www.pbs.org/empires/medici