1. Tuesday 10/5/17 Review Essay results
Straits Quiz – get your map out and ready to turn in
Review Islamic Contributions
Silk Road

2. Observations
* Lack of preparation even with advance notice of the prompt. * Random information with no cohesion. * Thesis is contradictory * Thesis is very vague * Similarity is the definition of an empire: a group of nations or peoples ruled over by an emperor, empress, or other powerful sovereign or government: usually a territory of greater extent than a kingdom, as the former British Empire, Byzantine Empire, or Roman Empire. * ‎if you can't prove it, don't write about it.

3. How Was Your Weekend? Good. Football and Food
Saturday my family went to Olive Garden for my Dad’s birthday and then we went to Top Golf we went home and watched a movie and I didn’t go to sleep until 3. On Sunday we left for church, but our car had a flat tire, so I didn’t get to see my friends, but my mom cooked breakfast and we watched the Ravens game and they won and they are my favorite football team.
My weekend had it’s ups and downs. I went to my favorite restaurant and watched football on Sunday.

4. How Much Should You Write: That depends…
Quantity does not mean Quality
Minimum = 2 full pages.
Optimal = 3 pages
2 or 3 sentences does not make a paragraph!

5. Essay Skills - Thesis & Prompt
You MUST take a stand and CLEARLY state your claim and draw a conclusion
X and Y are similar in their _____, which led to their ______ However, they differed in their _____which caused ______.
X and Y differed in their _______, but were similar in how they _____, which allowed them to ____________.

6. Compare: side by side analysis. Sim/diff.
Evaluate: discuss advantages and disadvantages
Describe/Discuss/Detail: tell about,
Explain: offer reasons for, make clear
Analyze or examine: look at in detail, consider relationships, and cause/effect.

7. Silk Road
Crash Course w/worksheet
Day 1 of Unit 3

8. SILK ROAD DBQ Assignment posted on Dragonwhap/“homework”
Read sources and answer questions for each source on a separate piece of paper.
Write a thesis statement answering the prompt at the end.
Turn in when finished.
Note:
Single sentence responses or responses not supported with evidence will not be accepted!
All responses must be handwritten in ink!
Day 1 of Unit 3

9. Why was trade important?
Encouraged specialization
Eliminated local economic self-sufficiency
Provided a means of social mobility
Provided prestige goods for elites
Wealth from trade motivated state creation
Catalyst for the expansion and spread of Christianity and Islam –Proselytize
Technological innovations, plants and animals, & disease also spread along trade routes

10. What Trade Routes? Eurasian Silk Roads Trans-Saharan Caravan Routes
Indian Ocean Sea Lanes
Mediterranean Sea Lanes
Needed protection from surrounding states.
7th & 8th centuries
Byzantine Empire, Abbasid dynasty, and Tang dynasty
13th & 14th centuries,
Mongol Empire controlled almost the entirety of the Silk Roads

12. New Technologies Extensive use of pack animals
Maritime Studies & Technology
Monsoon winds (E. Africa-E. Asia)
Compass & Astrolabe (navigation)
Larger ship designs
New forms of credit and monetization
Man-made routes
Grand Canal in China

13. long-distance trade meant exposure to
unfamiliar diseases
a. early case: great epidemic in Athens in
430–429 B.C.E.
b. during the Roman and Han empires,
smallpox and measles devastated both
populations
c. in 534–750 C.E., bubonic plague from
India ravaged Mediterranean world the Black Death spread thanks to the
Mongol Empire’s unification of much of
Eurasia (thirteenth–fourteenth centuries)
a. could have been bubonic plague,
anthrax, or collection of epidemic
diseases
b. killed as much as one-half of European
population between 1346 and 1350
c. similar death toll in China and parts of
the Islamic world

14. Meanwhile, in the Americas...
No sustained interaction occurred between the Western and Eastern hemispheres before the voyages of Columbus.
Trade routes are not extensive
Local and regional trade flourished
Limitations on expansion
lack of domesticated large mammals,
No wheeled vehicles,
No large oceangoing ships
Geographic & environmental obstacles

15. What did the Americas have?
Maya and Teotihuacán traded by land
Maya traded by sea along the coast with dugout canoes
15th century Aztecs had professional merchants (regional)
State run trade networks along the Andes

16. Major World Straits. Gibraltar. Bosporus. Dardanelles
Major World Straits Gibraltar Bosporus Dardanelles Malacca(aka, Molucca, Mulacca) Hormuz Magellan Bab el Mandeb Mozambique Channel