Unit 2: Networks of Exchange: 1200 - 1450

Today I'm going to hand back quizzes and discuss Unit 2. We will also look at the Silk Roads and begin to read 2.1 in your textbook. 

Unit 2 1200-1450 is about the connectivity between different regions or cultures. 

 Unit Outline:

Topic 2.1 THE SILK ROADS

Learning Objective A: Explain the causes and effects of growth of networks of exchange after 1200.

KC-3.1.I.A.i - Improved commercial practices led to an increased volume of trade and expanded the geographical range of existing trade routes

KC-3.1.I.C.i - The growth of interregional trade in luxury goods was encouraged by innovations in previously existing transportation and commercial technologies

KC-3.3.I.B - Demand for luxury goods increased in Afro-Eurasia.

RESOURCES and ACTIVITIES: 

• READ TEXTBOOKS - Answer MC questions (AP Classroom and textbook)
  

  Ted Ed “The Silk Road: Connecting the ancient world through trade - Shannon Harris

  Castelo” 

  
   

• John Green’s Crash Course World History: “The Silk Road and Ancient Trade: Crash

  Course World History #9” 

  
   

  Mapping the Silk Roads and SAQ Activity

• Write down the major exports and imports of each region so that they better understand the exchange between the regions.

• Here is a possible article with the information: https://www.advantour.com/silkroad/goods.htm

• Map of the Silk Roads.

• https://transportgeography.org/wp-content/uploads/Map_Silkroad.pdf

• This map has more cities listed, although Samarkand is missing: http://

  www.chinatourguide.com/china_photos/Silk_Road/Maps/silk_road_entire_map.jpg

• Answer the SAQs (handout/link).

 Also Primary Sources Documentation/(SOAPSTONE or HIPP)

Topic 2.2 The Mongol Empire and the Making of the Modern World

Learning Objective D: Explain the signifıcance of the Mongol Empire in larger patterns of continuity and change.

Learning Target: I can explain how the Mongols were signifıcant to global development. 

Topic Activities:  

Read textbook chapters. Answer MC questions (AP Classroom and textbook)

Read the article, “The brutal brilliance of Genghis Khan”

Outline the claims in the article. 

 

Topic 2.3  Exchange in the Indian Ocean

Learning Objective E: Explain the causes of the growth of networks of exchange after 1200.

KC 3.1.II.A.ii. - Improved transportation technologies and commercial practices led to an increased volume of trade and expanded the geographical range of existing trade routes, including the Indian Ocean, promoting the growth of powerful new trading cities.

KC 3.1.I.C.ii - The growth of interregional trade in luxury goods was encouraged by signifıcant innovations in previously existing transportation and commercial technologies, including the use of the compass, the astrolabe, and larger ship designs.

Learning Objective F: Explain the effects of the growth of networks of exchange after 1200.

KC 3.2.II.A.iii. - Interregional contacts and conflicts between states and empires encouraged signifıcant technological and cultural transfers, including during Chinese maritime activity led by Ming Admiral Zheng He.

Learning Target: I can explain the causes and effects of the Indian Ocean Trade Network.

Activities: Textbook 2.3 (MC questions and SAQs)

Indian Ocean Basin Trade Activity

• Supplementary reading, “Medieval Era, 300 CE - 1450 CE: Networks of Exchange Across the Hemisphere”

 

Topic 2.4 Trans-Saharan Trade Routes

Learning Objective H = Explain the causes and effects of the growth of trans-Saharan trade.

Learning Target: I can discuss the importance of the Trans-Saharan Trade Networks. 

Activities: TEXTBOOK (MC questions, SAQs)

Trans-Saharan Trade Networks Document Analysis Activity

• Read these excerpts as homework and analyzing the documents in small groups or individually.

• Discussion about the rise and impact of states like Ghana and Mali and how they were discussed by historians of the day.

    

  
  
  
  
  
  

 Topic 2.5 Culture Consequences of Connectivity 

0. Learning Objective J: Explain the intellectual and cultural effects of the various networks of exchange in Afro-Eurasia from c. 1200 to c. 1450.

   KC-3.1.III.C - As exchange networks intensifıed, an increasing number of travelers within Afro-Eurasia wrote about their travels.

   Illustrative Examples: Ibn Battuta, Marco Polo, Margery Kempe

   ACTIVITIES: 

   13th and 14th Century Travelers Document Analysis and Sourcing Activity 

   Primary sources - Margery Kempe

    

 Topic  2.6

Learning Objective K: Explain the environmental effects of the various networks of exchange in Afro-Eurasia from c. 1200 to c. 1450.

KC-3.1.IV - There was continued diffusion of crops and pathogens, with epidemic diseases, including the bubonic plague, along trade routes. 

Textbook reading (MC questions and SAQs)

European International Trade and Bubonic Plague Activity

 Primary Source - Bubonic Plague

2.7 Comparison of Economic Exchange

Learning Objective L: Explain the similarities and differences among the various networks of exchange in the period from c. 1200 to c. 1450.

Learning Target: I can explain the similarities and differences between trade networks.

LEQ Argument-Building Activity 

WRITING A LEQ