1. A WORLD OF EMPIRES CE

2. Americas 1300-1800 Rise of Incas Continued rise of Aztecs
Conquest – arrival of Spanish in western hemisphere
Population impacts: disease, racial intermingling, war
Columbian exchange
Colonial societies
Incas/Aztecs..do lessons about them. (ex: time capsule assignment: draw 3 things on a “space ship” that they think are items from these cultures that could benefit the future socieites: ex: calendars)
Conquest: Do picture comparisons from both perspectives. There is also poetry from book: Broken Spears.
Impacts on Population: mestizos/mulattos/disease, racial, intermingling, war
In my file: good reading “Indian Givers”
Transition into colonail societies

3. Inca Empire—1438-1525 Highly centralized government
Diverse ethnic groups
Extensive irrigation
State religion/ancestor cult
Rope suspension bridges
Metallurgy – copper and bronze
No use of wheel
Roads for tax, labor, and courier system
S to the 3rd (Sugar/Silver/Slaves) Do a case study ,one day, on transataltic slave trade and a day on columbian exchange….focus on Brazil.
200 different varieties of potatos…europeans took back 2…

4. Aztec Empire 1325-1520 Tenochtitlan “Foundation of Heaven”
By 1519, metropolis of five square miles
Island location
Tribute empire based on agriculture
State control of market – redistributes all goods
State controlled market

5. Changes in Trade, Technology and Global Interactions
Exploration
Gold, Glory and God?
Commodities
Cartography
Empire Building
Exploration: a major theme during this time. Gold Glory and God (3G’s)
Cartography – look at ptomoly map from “foundations” and how the image of the world was changing…because there are different purposes of map needed. Not just an art…but also a scieince
Commodities: Have students read the boo ”The world that trade created” Readings and Assignments is in my file. Commodity Jigasaw.

6. Age of Exploration European exploration Why then? Why? Who and where?
End of Ming Treasure / Tribute Voyages
Zheng He
Clip on Millenium Series clips
Zheng He –(millenium series movie clip) the amazing ships!! His ships have swimming pools/farms/aquaculture on it! Like a future star-ship from star trek. It was more like tribute voyages and collecting tribute as he travelled but also brought back trinkets to the emperor.
By the end of his life: they were running out of wood to make ships/ Merchant biases at that time…/ many of his records from his voyages were destroyed.

7. Commodities African slave trade Notice the primary destinations
African Slave Station Activity in my File (if not… deb) to teach African Slave Trade. One group looks at book images/one group looks at stats/ one group takes pieces of paper with slave ship ½’s…give them little hearts to write on. Ask what did African’s take with them to their new location. 4th station: little primary source quotes to interpret.
Final activity: what other sources could be helpful to understand the trade
Film for them to watch at home: Amistad (extra credit?)

8. Commodities
Coffee beans used first in Yemen and then later in Europe and Americas
European used chocolate technology from Aztecs in 17th Century
Story of Yemen sheep herder.
Chocolate: aztecs to europeans and was accepted when they put sugar in it

9. Cartographic Changes

10. Empire Building How do empires rise and expand?
What factors at this time will help empires maintain themselves and expand their borders?
Consider the impact and nature of interaction with others…
Absolutism – gov’t not just in Europe! All over the world!
Empire Activity (called Empire Case Studies) – Students have one empire to study in depth.
Teacher Work: Make copies of info from my supplementary extra textbooks to make files for each empire
Day 1 : graphic organizer (I’ll copy it for every student) ex: venn diagrapm/charts/
Day 2 : apply that info into Travel Brochure
Day 3: Essay: they have to compare their essay to another Empire (or 2 empires) (students can pull empires out of a hat to see what they are going to do)

11. Africa Characteristics:
Stateless societies-organized around kinship, often larger than states, forms of government
Large centralized states–increased unity came from linguistic base–Bantu, Christianity and Islam, as well as indigenous beliefs
Trade–markets, international commerce, taxed trade of unprocessed goods.

12. African Empires Oyo Benin Kongo Asante
Students need to know at least 1 one these for the test!!! Let a groups for Empire Lesson choose ONE!!!

13. Songhay Initially farmers, herders, and fishers
Foreign merchant community in Goa (gold)
Powerful cavalry forces, expansive empire (1492)
Fusion of Islamic and indigenous traditions

14. Ottoman 1281-1914 1350’s – Initial Ottoman invasion of Europe
1453 – Ottoman capture of Constantinople
1683 – Ottoman siege of Vienna
                                   

15. Ming China 1368-1644 Manchu Qing Dynasty 1644-1912

16. Japan

17. Tokugawa Japan 1600-1853 Cultural borrowing from China
Emergence of warrior class and increasing civil wars
Encounter with Portuguese-1543
“Isolation” from West; rise of Tokugawas
Tokugawa elite followed development in West (contrast to China’s “hairy barbarian” mentality)

18. Mughal India 1556-1739 Empire based on military strength
Akbar the Great–-combined beliefs into new religion to unite Hindu and Muslim subjects: Din-I-Ilahi
Indian textile trade–value to Europeans
Patron of the arts— Shah Jahan

19. Safavid Persia

20. Empires: Russia
Mongol occupation stalled Russian unification and development
Increasing absolutist rule and territorial expansion by 16th Century – Ivan the Terrible
Role of Russian Orthodox Church
Peter the Great accelerated westernization process
Connected to Fur Trade….
Empire is expanding East

21. Fur Trade – French, British, Native Peoples, Russians
Comparitive look at fur trade. Mainly beaver fur in N.Amer and Sable in Russia
It went East in Russia and West in US/Canada…similar stories. “Europe and the People w/out history”.
Environmental Factor: Hunt to extinction and move West…natives were collaborating with them. It spread disease and ideas. Exploitation of Environment…it isn’t a new thing!
In my file…Environment Lessons

22. Portugal Search for maritime route to Asia Naval school
Advanced naval technology: caravels, carracks, astrolabe and compass

23. Portugal
Established fortresses along the Gold Coast – sugar plantations and African slave labor
Indian Ocean trade and Da Gama: Malindi, Sofala and Kilwa, Calicut and Goa, and later Macao
Atlantic trade with conquest of Brazil – sugar plantation

24. Brazil: Plantation colony
Portuguese due to Treaty of Tordesillas
African slave labor used to support plantation complex (sugar)
Largest producer of sugar in world first half of 17th C.

25. Spain Reconquista ended with fall of Granada Inquisition
Columbus’ voyage
Cortez in Mexico and Pizarro in Peru
Took over existing tributary empires: labor, silver, gold, and foodstuffs
Demographic impact: disease, death, and mestizos

26. England Limited/constitutional monarchy Civil Wars Commonwealth
Charles II
James II
Glorious Revolution
Bill of Rights
Enlightenment ideas
Colonies in Americas

27. France Absolute Monarchy King Louis XIV “ I am the State” Versailles
Mercantilism
Territorial expansion in Europe and fur-trading colonies in Saint Domingue (Haiti) and New France (Quebec)

28. Dutch Dutch East India Company
1660—employed 12,000 people with 257 ships
Sought monopolies and large profits
North America (fur trade-Hudson River, New Amsterdam)
Caribbean islands for plantations
Capetown, South Africa – way station
Southeast Asia – spice trade (nutmeg, cloves and pepper)

29. How might colonial conquests influence gender roles?
Gender and Empire
How might colonial conquests influence gender roles?
How might the colonial conquests influence gender roles?
Ex: Christianity will influence existing gender roles in the Americas
Ex: sexual violence has been used as a tool of conquest during colonialism (std’s)

30. Changing Beliefs Reformation Neo-Confucianism
Missionaries: Christianity, Islam, Buddhism
Neo Confuciansim – important for students to know…it influences not only art…but also merchants in all of E. Asia
Role of Missionaries – Universal Religions that try to spread Do Jesuits as a case study

31. Missionaries: Jesuits
Jesuits notes in my file: Brazil/ India/ China – Case Study assignment
Watch “The Mission” Clip about Jesuits in Brazil.

32. Cultural and Intellectual Development
Scientific Revolution
Enlightenment
Patronage of the arts
Do a comparison of european and islamic renaissance (spain)
Students take on Roles Assignments (in my file) : They debate 2 questions about enlightenment ideas

33. Demographic and Environmental Changes
Predict what the consequences of increased integration and empire building be on population? On the environment? Think long and short term.

34. Comparisons Be able to compare the following:
Imperial systems: European monarchy vs. a land-based Asian empire
Coercive labor systems
Empire building in Asia, Africa and Europe
Russia’s interaction with the West compared to others
Emphasis: THE USE OF CASE STUDIES for this unit!! You can’t do it all. Split it up! How do we all get the info compiled together?!

35. Conclusions What are the major themes that seem apparent?
What global processes are in action?

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