AP WORLD HISTORY
(SECONDARY)
ESSENTIAL UNIT 3 (E03)
(Regional and Trans Regional Interactions)
(600 CE- 1000 CE)
Unit Statement: In this unit, the student will explore the expansion of trade networks
along with the continuity and innovation of state forms and their interactions.
Furthermore the student will understand the consequences of increased economic
productive capacity.
Essential Outcomes: (assessed for mastery)
1. The Student Will outline the existing trade routes, including the Silk Roads, the
Mediterranean, the Trans-Saharan as well as the Indian Ocean Basin while also
examine how they promoted the growth of new cities.
2. TSW examine the growth of interregional trade in luxury goods.
3. TSW describe state practices that facilitated commercial growth.
4. TSW assess how the following empires; China, Byzantine, Caliphates, and the
Mongols facilitated Trans-Eurasian trade.
5. TSW illustrate how the expansion and intensification of long-distance trade routes
often depended on environmental knowledge and technological adaptations
to it.
6. TSW define the environmental impact of: the migration of Bantu-speaking and the
maritime migrations of the Polynesian peoples.
7. TSW show how some migrations and commercial contacts led to the diffusion of
languages throughout a new region or the emergence of new languages.
8. TSW identify diasporic communities that introduced their own cultural traditions
into indigenous cultures.
9. TSW analyze the writings of interregional travelers examining both the extent and
the limitations of intercultural knowledge and understanding.
10. TSW identify how increased cross-cultural interactions resulted in the diffusion of
literary, artistic, and cultural traditions.
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Suggested Materials:
Basic Resource: Traditions and Encounters Chapter 13-17
Additional Resource: Documents in World History
The Human Record: Volume I
The Foundation of Islamic Life:
Excerpts from the Koran
Buddhism Comes to China:
The Story of the Nun An Lingshou
Muslims and Franks in the Crusader States
Justinian the Great: San Vitale Mosaics
Procopius: The Secret History
The Crusades: From a Byzantine Perspective
Peasant Life in Tang and Song China
Feudalism: Contemporary Descriptions and the Magna Carta
Women and Society in the Middle Ages
Other Sources: Books and periodicals, Princeton AP Review, AP Achiever McGraw Hill
AP Exam Prep Guide
Technology Links:
http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/0072424354/student_view0/
http://worldhistoryforusall.sdsu.edu/dev/default.htm
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook.html
Mandatory Assessments:
1. Teacher generated multiple choice exams. The majority of the questions
should require students to use higher order thinking skill of synthesis and
evaluation that allows the student to combine knowledge and skills across
the unit. The exam should be structured in a way that approximately 25%
of the exam includes diagrams, graphs, and/or maps. Teachers may create
their own questions or use questions from several published AP World
History examination books.
2. Teacher generated or AP published free-response questions. Free response
questions can be generated directly from the teacher, or they may use intext critical thinking questions or questions included in any AP World
History examination book. However, the teacher would have to create a
unique rubric for each of these generated questions. Also, free-response
questions can be taken directly from AP Central site with pre-determined
rubrics already created to use as an assessment tool.
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AP WORLD HISTORY
E03
Unit Rubric
Name:_______________________________
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‘A’
Essential Criteria
Multiple Choice
Unit Exam (s) (%
90% or better
‘B’
‘IP’
80% - 89%
is only used to help
the student
understand AP
scoring)
Free Response Question
8 or better
Other Criteria
5-7
Study Guide
Notes
Homework
The student must receive a 90% or better and a 8 or better on the multiple choice
and free response respectively (essential criteria) as well as get at least 3 out of 5
A’s on the other criteria to receive an A for the unit. (% is only used to help the student
understand AP scoring)
The student must receive an 80% - 89% and a 5 - 7 on the multiple choice and free
response respectively (essential criteria) as well as get all B’s on the other criteria
to receive a B for the unit. (% is only used to help the student understand AP scoring)
If the student receives any IP’s they must follow the criteria stated in the AP World
History course outcome.
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