1. Period 4: Global Interactions c. 1450 to c. 1750
4.1. Globalizing Networks of Communication and Exchange
4.2. New Forms of Social Organization and Modes of Production
4.3. State Consolidation and Imperial Expansion

2. Unit 4 Outline: Mapping the Columbian Exchange and thesis analysis
Socratic Seminar on Gender: the Aztec and Inca Empires
Analyzing cultural syncretism in the Americas
Analyze changes and continuities in religions in Sub-Saharan Africa
Ottoman, Safavid and Mughal Empires DBQ

3. Unit #3:
Explain the Causes of World Population Growth, CE

4. Unit #3: 1450 – 1750, binder p. 63 Six Weeks: Encounters and Change
Week One: Encounters -- “Southernization” in Western Europe and the Scientific Revolution and Renaissance; Protestant Reformation and Catholic Counter Reformation
Week Two: Encounters and Exchange: Reconquista, Portuguese in Morocco and West Africa; Spanish in the Americas
Week Three: Encounters and Exchange: Portuguese in Indian Ocean trade networks, Manila galleons and the Ming Silver Trade
Timed writing: DBQ on Global Flow of Silver (2006 exam)
Week Four: Labor Systems in the Atlantic World -- The Africanization of the Americas (slave trade, plantation economies, resistance to slavery); Labor systems in the Russian Empire and resistance to serfdom
Timed writing: Compare labor systems (2004 exam)
Week Five: Expansion of Global Economy and Absolutism--Ottoman, Safavid, Mughal, Bourbons, Tokugawa, and Romanov Empires
Week Six: Effects of the Atlantic Slave Trade on demography in West Africa, resistance to the Atlantic slave trade, and expansion of Islam in sub-Saharan Africa
Timed writing: Change and continuity over time essay on effects of Columbian Exchange (2005 exam)
Map Quiz: Map the flow of flora, fauna, and people caused by the Columbian Exchange
Unit Test

5. Western Hemisphere turkey llama tobacco chocolate (cacao) corn (maize)
Directions for Mapping the Columbian Exchange, p. 65 Draw an outline map of the world and then place the following items in the hemisphere of their origin:
Eastern Hemisphere
cows
sheep
pigs
horses
wheat
rice
cotton
silk
sugar
coffee
measles
small pox
chicken pox
influenza
bubonic plague
Western Hemisphere
turkey
llama
tobacco
chocolate (cacao)
corn (maize)
squash
beans
chilies
potatoes
tomatoes
Draw lines showing where the items went (they all should travel to the other hemisphere, except for llamas).
Paste index cards or sticky notes with annotations on the map explaining the effects of the plants and animals transferred across the world as a result of the Columbian Exchange
Write a thesis statement describing the changes and continuities that resulted from the Columbian Exchange

6. Thesis Statement on the Columbian Exchange [scp, p. 72]

7. 2012 Comparative Essay
Generic rubric
Operational rubric
Score essays

8. CCOT Labor Systems in Africa [SCP, p. 67]

9. Seminar on Gender in the Americas [SCP,p. 71]

10. Creating New Cultures in the Americas [scp, p. 74]
Religious Change in Latin America
In Mexico today, there is a holiday known as the Day of the Dead or El Día de los Muertos
Syncretism in Latin American Music

11. The Islamic Empires in the 16th & 17th Centuries
DBQ on training wheels [Cohen binder, p. 76]

12. Essay Question: “Compare the development of empire-building from 1450 – 1750 in two of the following empires: Spanish, Ottoman, and/or Russian” [Cohen binder, p. 82]
By the way, who are these guys? How do you know?

13. By the way, who are these guys? How do you know?
Suleiman the sultan of the Ottoman Empire from
Phillip II, king of Spain,
Peter, tsar of Russia from 1682 to 1725.