Mrs. Ruland's Advanced Placement World History Course

Unit 3: 1450-1750

1. Questions of periodization
1. Continuities and breaks; causes of changes from the previous period and within this period
2. Changes in trade, technology and global interactions: e.g. the Columbian Exchange, the impact of guns, changes in shipbuilding, and navigational devices
3. Knowledge of major empires and other political units and social systems
1. Aztec, Inca, Ottoman, China, Portugal, Spain, Russia, France, Britain, Tokugawa, Mughal
2. Characteristics of African kingdoms in general (Kongo, Benin, Oyo, Dahomey, Ashanti, Songhay)
   
3. Gender and empire including the role of women in households and in politics
4. Slave systems and slave trade
5. Demographic and environmental changes: diseases, animals, new crops, and comparative population trends
6. Cultural and intellectual developments
1. Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment
2. Comparative global causes and impacts of cultural change (e.g. African contributions to cultures in the Americas)
3. Major developments and exchanges in the arts (e.g., Mughal, the Americas)
4. Creation of new religions (Vodun, Zen, Sikhism, Protestantism)
7. Diverse interpretations
1. What are the debates about the timing and extent of European predominance in the world economy?
2. How does the world economic system of this period compare with patterns of interregional trade in the previous period?

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