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Period 4 Part I Assignment Sheet – December 4-20
Monday
2
Tuesday
3
Wednesday
4
Review for
Period 3 Test
Period 3
Objective Test
CCOT: Silk
Roads
Thursday
5
Friday
6
Obj: Examine
the
periodization of
Period 4 (14501750)
Obj: Compare
and contrast
historical
context and
motivation for
European and
Chinese
exploration
HW #4.1 due
HW #4.2 due
9
10
11
12
13
Obj: Prepare for
Socratic Seminar
“Why the
West?” on
Tuesday, 12/10
Obj: Socratic
Seminar, “Why
the West?”
Discussion:
Obj: Analyze
continuities in
Chinese history
Obj: Analyze
the Spanish
Conquest of the
Aztecs through
Aztec art
Obj: Analyze
the role of
Africa in the
Atlantic Slave
Trade in relation
to social
inequity,
economics, race,
and violence
HW #4.4 Due
HW #4.3 Due
HW #4.5 Due
16
17
18
19
Obj: Prep for
Sugar, Silver,
and Slaves
Socratic Seminar
Obj: Sugar,
Silver, and
Slaves Seminar
– analysis of the
intersection of
race, social
inequity,
economics, and
violence
Obj: To analyze
the economic
consequences of
the global silver
trade
Obj: In-class
DBQ on the
global silver
trade
HW #4.9 Due
HW #4.6 Due
20
Obj: In-class
objective quiz,
Unit 4 Part I
HW #4.10 Due
HW #4.8 Due
HW #4.7 Due
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Period 4.1 Homework Assignments (December 4-December 20)
HW #4.1: Read and annotate the Marks chapter “Material and Trading Worlds” in Origins of
the Modern World excerpt in your reading packet and online. Take notes to respond to the
following questions:
1. Take three minutes: What major world events do you know happened between the
years 1450-1750 (prior knowledge – brainstorm!)
2. Now that you’ve finished studying Period 3, respond: which do you think was the
best title (Medieval, Third Wave Civs, Post-Classical, etc.) and why? Why do you
think the period “ends” in 1450?
3. What evidence does Marks provide as to why Period 4 “begins” in 1450 (this is
NOT the same question as #2 above!!!)
4. After you’ve read the article, take notes and be prepared to discuss the significance
of the following: Biological Old Regime, world system, globalization, polycentric
world system, core and periphery world systems
5. Be prepared to discuss: how does human action have global consequences at the turn
of the fifteenth century?
HW #4.2: Complete the following 2 readings:
 Read the “Brave New Worlds” article (in reading packet and online) and answer:
How did Ptolemy’s map affect how and why Europeans began their exploration?
[Hint: google “Ptolemy’s map for a visual]
 Read the excerpt from the Robert Strayer APWH textbook Ways of the World (from
here on out, “Strayer”) pp. 566-576. Take notes to answer the questions below:
o How would you define the major achievements of Ming Dynasty China?
o Who is Zheng He? Why is he important? How might you describe the arc
of his life? What were its major turning points? How did his castration
shape his life? (Be sure to see the insert on Zheng He on pp 572-73)
o Look at the Waldseemuller Map of 1507 and analyze the POV (“why does the
author create this map in the way that he creates it when he does?”)
o What political and cultural differences stand out in the histories of fifteenth
century China and Western Europe? What similarities are apparent?
o In what ways did European maritime voyages of the 15th century differ from
those of China? What accounts for these differences?
HW #4.3: Prepare for a 50-point (double!) Socratic Seminar entitled “Why the West?” We
will be exploring the question: What accounts for the different fortunes of Europe and
China in the fifteenth century? Read Worlds of History Vol. II Chapter 1, pp. 551-594. Use
the guided reading questions at the beginning of each selection to take notes that you can
use during the Socratic Seminar. My expectation is that you will make extensive use of the
text in the Seminar.
*I will be chaperoning a field trip on Monday, 12/9. You should use that class period to work on the
readings and prep for the seminar.
HW #4.4: Read Bentley, Chapter 27 on East Asia; skim through the stuff that you know
about Ming and focus on the Qing. In class, we will be completing an activity the examine
continuity in China over the history we’ve studied thus far. I highly suggest you ALSO go
back and review notes from Chapter 8 (Qin and Han Dynasties) and Chapter 15 (Sui, Tang,
Song Dynasties).
HW #4.5: Read Strayer pp 617-635 (stop at “The Steppes and Siberia”) and take notes to
answer the questions below.
 RECOMMENDED: Review outline from the Bentley textbook website for
Chapter 23, Transoceanic Encounters and Global Connections, for more details
about European maritime voyages.
 Create a chart comparing settler, sugar, and Spanish colonies.
 Take notes to explain the significance of terms: “the great dying,” Columbian
Exchange, peninsulares, mestizo, mulattoes, plantation complex, settler colonies.
 How might you define the significance of Dona Maria’s life? In what larger contexts
might that life find a place?
HW #4.6: Read Bentley Chapter 26 on Africa and the Atlantic World and prep for reading
quiz
HW #4.7: Prepare for the Sugar, Silver, and Slaves Socratic Seminar. Readings and guided
questions to be distributed separately.
HW #4.8: Read Strayer pp. 669-682 “Commerce and Consequence.” Answer the margin
questions.
HW #4.9: Prepare for in-class DBQ on the global silver trade
HW #4.10: Review for Unit 4 Part I objective quiz