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  • APWH Units
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    • Post-Classical: 1200 to 1450
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    • Modern: 1750 to 1900
    • Contemporary: 1900 to Present
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    • Period 1: 8000 BCE to 600 BCE
    • Period 2: 600 BCE to 600 CE
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    • Primary vs. Secondary
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      • Purpose
      • Point of View
    • Non-Text Documents
  • Writing Strategies
    • Historical Thinking Skills
    • SAQ
    • Tackling Your Essays
      • Creating a Thesis
      • Sentence Stems
      • LEQ Essay
      • DBQ Essay
  • Guides
    • How To Answer Stimulus Based Multiple-Choice
    • Binder Instructions
    • SPICE Themes List
    • Theme Timeline Instructions
    • Class Discussion Rubric

Period 4: Global Interactions (1450 to 1750) ​
Key Concept 4.1 — The interconnection of the Eastern and Western Hemispheres, made possible by transoceanic voyaging, transformed trade and religion and had a significant economic, cultural, social, and demographic impact on the world.
Key Concept 4.2 — Although the world’s productive systems continued to be heavily centered on agriculture, major changes occurred in agricultural labor, the systems and locations of manufacturing, gender and social structures, and environmental processes.
Key Concept 4.3 — Empires expanded around the world, presenting new challenges in the incorporation of diverse populations and in the effective administration of new coerced labor systems.

Reviews
  • Need to Know
  • Period 4: Cram Review Packet
  • Mapping Review Assignment 
  • Key Concept 4.1
  • Key Concept 4.2
  • Key Concept 4.3
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Vocabulary
Gunpowder Empires
Transformations in Europe 
The Maritime Revolution to 1550
European Exploration and Colonization of the Americas 

Readings/Assignments
  • Martin Luther's "95 Theses"
  • Columbus Diaries/Zinn vs. Berliner 
  • Handout: European Exploration
  • Handout: Long-Distance Trade
  • Handout: Maritime Activity
  • Handout: The Potato 
  • Columbian Exchange Short Reading 
  • The Spanish Experience Primary Sources
  • Mayflower Compact and Virginia House of Burgesses 
  • Middle Passage (Olaudah Equiano) Primary Sources
  • Slavery in the Caribbean Primary Sources (Sugar Trade)
  • Charter of the Dutch West India Company
  • Columbian Exchange Graph 
  • Silver Spoon Reading
  • Born in Blood and Fire: A Concise History of Latin America 
  • Gunpowder Empire Assignments
  • Qing the Sacred Edict

Power Points/Slides
  • European Exploration/Colonization
  • Renaissance Art​
  • The Gunpowder Empire 
  • Transformations in Europe 1450-1750
  • Why Europe?
  • Gunpowder Empires (Short)
  • Rise of Russia​
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