AP World
Unit 3 Daily Syllabus
Key Concepts
A. Expansion and Intensification of Communication and Exchange Networks
1.) Improved transportation technologies and commercial practices led to an
increased volume of trade, and expanded the geographical range of existing
and newly active trade networks
1. Discussion – Relevancy of 1450 Periodization: 1421 – The Year China
Discovered America by William Morrow
2.) The movement of peoples caused environmental and linguistic effects (Berbers
adapted camels to travel across the Sahara)
3.) Cross-cultural exchanges were fostered by the intensification of existing, or the
creation of new, networks of trade and communication via Mongol Empires
4.) There was continued diffusion of crops and pathogens throughout the Eastern
Hemisphere and along trade routes
B. Continuity and Innovation of State Forms and their Interactions
1.) Empires collapsed and were reconstituted; in some regions new state forms
emerged
2.) Interregional contacts and conflicts between states and empires encouraged
significant technological and cultural transfers
C. Increased Economic Productive Capacity and Its Consequences
1.) Innovations stimulated agricultural and industrial production in many regions
2.) The fate of cities varied greatly, with periods of significant decline, and with
periods of increased urbanization buoyed by rising productivity and expanding
trade networks
3.) Despite significant continuities in social structures and in methods of
production, there were also some important changes in labor management and
in the effect of religious conversion on gender relations and family life
Day/Date
M, 11/5
T, 11/6
W/Th, 11/7-8
Assessment or
Assignment to be
Turned in
Unit 2 Test
Han & Rome DBQ
CCOT Chart
Unit 2 Timeline
Class Activity
Unit 2 Test
The Post-Classical
Period
Islam
Quran Analysis
The Caliphate—
PERSIAN Charts of the
Umayyad and Abbasid
Caliphates
Homework
Han & Rome DBQ
CCOT Chart and Timeline
Read in Stearns, pgs. 130145
Read in Stearns, pgs. 14559, pg. 162-66
Read #48—God’s Martyrs:
The Party of Ali
Work on Islam Project—
Due on 11/19
Study for Chap. 6 Reading
Quiz
Complete Chap. 6
Questions
Read in Stearns, pgs. 16682
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F, 11/9
Chapter 6 Reading
Quiz
Chapter 6
Questions
Compare Spread of
Islam to South Asia
with its Spread to SE
Asia
Analysis of Sufi
Miniature
Study for Chap. 7 Reading
Quiz
Complete Chap. 7
Questions
Read in Stearns, pgs. 18494
Read #49—An African
Pilgrim to Mecca & Answer
Questions 1-5
M/T, 11/1213
Chapter 7 Quiz
Chapter 7
Questions
W, 11/14
Chapter 8
Questions
Islam Test
Bantu Migrations
Ghana, Mali, and
Songhay—Compare &
Contrast
the Swahili Coast
Read in Stearns, pgs. 195202
Complete Chapter 8
Questions
Study for Islam Test (Chap.
6-8)
Finish Islam Project
Read in Stearns, pgs. 20418
Study for Chap. 9 Reading
Quiz
Complete Chap. 9
Questions
Th/F, 11/1516
Islam Test
(Chap. 6-8)
M, 11/19
Islam Project
Analysis of Byzantine
Empire and Kievan Rus
T, 11/20
Chapter 9 Reading
Quiz
Chapter 9
Questions
Analysis of PostClassical Europe
Work on Islam &
Christianity Roundtable
Crusades Movie (Pd. 4)
Read in Stearns, pgs. 22031
W, 11/21
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Unit 3 Daily Syllabus Cont’d
Day/Date
T/W, 11/2728
Assessment or
Assignment to be
Turned in
Chapter 9 Reading
Quiz
Chapter 9
Questions
Th, 11/29
Christian article
conclusions
F, 11/30
Han & Rome DBQ
Rewrite
Islamic vs.
Christian
Civilization
Roundtable
M/T, 12/3-4
Chap. 10 Reading
Quiz
Chap. 10 Questions
W, 12/5
Post-Classical DBQ
Th, 12/6
Byzantine, Europe,
& Americas Test
(Chap. 9-11)
Class Activity
Homework
Post-Classical Western
Europe
Read in Stearns, pgs. 23240 and complete
worksheets
Finish Christian’s article,
Silk Road or Steppe
Roads?—Read pgs. 15-21—
Write a paragraph
summarizing his
conclusions
Finish Han & Rome DBQ
Rewrite
Finish preparing for
Islamic vs. Christian
Civilization Roundtable
Briefly Discuss Stearns
Reading HW
Lecture on the Decline
of the Medieval
Synthesis
MAR Activity &
Questions
Islamic vs. Christian
Civilization
Roundtable
Lecture on Classical
Mesoamerican
States—Teotihuacan,
Maya City States—and
Moche of Andean
South America
Discuss Aztecs
Discuss Incas
Compare Incas and
Aztecs
The Other Peoples of
the Americas
Byzantine, Europe, &
Americas Test (Chap.
9-11)
Study for Chap. 10 Reading
Quiz
Complete Chap. 10
Questions
Work on Post-Classical
DBQ
Read in Stearns, pgs. 24454 and complete PERSIAN
dChart of Aztecs
Finish Post-Classical DBQ
Read in Stearns, pgs. 25464 and complete PERSIAN
Chart of Incas
Complete Chapter 11
Questions
Study for Byzantine,
Europe, & Americas Test
(Chap. 9-11)
Finish DBQ
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Unit 3 Daily Syllabus—Final Syllabus
Day/Date
F/M, 12/7-10
Assessment or
Assignment to be
Turned in
Post Classical Pd.
Trade DBQ
T, 12/11 (1/2
day)
Class Activity
The CCOT Essay
Chinese Civilization
W, 12/12
Chapter 12
Questions
Chapter 12 Reading
Quiz
Japan, Korea, and
Vietnam
Th/F, 12/1314
Chapter 13
Questions
Chapter 13 Reading
Quiz
The Mongols
M, 12/17
Chapter 14
Questions
Chapter 14 Reading
Quiz
Mongol Debate
Report
Chapter 15
Questions
Chap. 12-15 Test
The Mongol Conquest:
Scourge or Stimulus?
Debate
CCOT Essay
T, 12/18
W/Th, 12/1920
F, 12/20 (1/2
day)
Homework
Read in Stearns, Chapter
12 and complete Wksht
Complete Chap. 12
Questions
Read in Stearns, Chapter
13 and complete Wksht.
Study for Chapter 12
Reading Quiz
Complete Chap. 13
Questions
Study for Chapter 13
Reading Quiz
Read in Stearns, Chapter
14 and Complete Wksht
Complete Chapter 14
Questions
Study for Chapter 14
Reading Quiz
Prepare for Debate on the
Mongols
Read in Stearns, Chapter
15
Complete Chapter 15
Questions
The World in 1450
Study for Chap. 12-15 Test
Chap. 12-15 Test
Finish CCOT Essay
Merry Christmas!
Work on Unit 3 Timeline
and CCOT Chart
Have a Happy Holiday!