Mr. Stenger

Period 3:  Regional and Interregional Interactions, 600 CE to 1450

Chapter 6- The Rise and Spread of Islam

-Chapter 6 Reading Questions

-Crash Course: Islam video clip

-"Must Know" Middle East Map

-Islamic general points handout

-Islamic civilization:  Umayyad/Abbasid Caliphate chart

 

Documents

-The Qur'an

-A Muslim View of the Crusades: Behâ-ed-Din, Richard I Massacres Prisoners after Taking Acre, 1191

-A Selection from Muhammad's Orations

 

Chapter 7- Abbasid Decline and Spread  of Islam to Southeast Asia

-Chapter 7 Reading Questions

-Crash Course: Christian Crusade video clip

-Christian Crusades handout

 

Documents

-Baghdad:  City of Wonders

-Alberuni on India's Hindus

-A World Traveler in India (1300s) Ibn Battuta

 

Chapter 8- African Civilizations and the Spread of Islam

-Chapter 8 Reading Questions

-Crash course: Islam in Africa video clip

-Muslim impact on Africa handout

-The Journeys of Ibn Battuta

-Ch. 6-8 Test Review

 

Documents

-Ibn Battuta, selections from the Rihla

-The Travels of Ibn Battuta, "Ibn Battuta in Mali"

 

Chapter 9- Byzantium and Orthodox Europe

-Chapter 9 Reading Questions

-Crash Course:  Dark Ages in Europe

-Crash Course: Russia

-Crash Course:  The Vikings

-Byzantine/Justinian handout

-Byzantine Empire chart

-Russia chart

 

Documents

-Vladimir of Kiev's Acceptance of Christianity (989 CE)

-Flagellants Attempt to Ward Off the Black Death, 1349

-The Reign of Justinian from Secret History (558) Procopius

 

Chapter 10- New Civilization in Western Europe

-Chapter 10 Reading Questions

-Feudalism handout

-Western Europe chart

-Crash Course:  Charles V and the Holy Roman Empire

 

Documents

-Muslim view of the Crusades

-Magna Carta, 1215

-A Muslim View of the Crusades: Behâ-ed-Din, Richard I Massacres Prisoners after Taking Acre, 1191

-Black Death (1349)

-Excerpts from Feudal Contracts, c. 1200

-Feudalism (1083) Archbishop of Cologne

 

Chapter 11- The Americas on the Eve of Invasion

-Chapter 11 Reading Questions

-Maya Handout

-Mayan Ballgame handout

-Andean civilization: Inca chart

-Mesoamerican civilization: Aztec chart

-Incan/Aztec comparison chart

-Ch. 9-11 Test Review

 

Documents

-Excerpt from The Broken Spears, an Indian account of the conquest of Mexico

-Excerpts from the "Account of Alva Ixtlilxochiltl" (1519)

 

Chapter 12- Sui/Tang/Song China

-Chapter 12 Reading Questions

-Tang/Song China chart

 

Documents

-Tang Daizong on The Art of Government

-Ibn Wahab, An Arab merchant visits Tang China

-Treaty between Tibet and China, 821-822

 

Chapter 13- Spread of Chinese Civilizations (Japan, Korea, Vietnam)

-Chapter 13 Reading Questions

-Japan chart

-Crash Course:  Japan in the Heian Period and Cultural History

-Korea and Vietnam Outline Review

 

Documents

-Buddhism in Japan:  The Taika Reform Edicts

-Excerpt from Lady Murasaki Shikibu's Diary (11th c.)

-Murasaki Shikibu, selections from The Tale of Genji

 

Chapter 14- Mongols

-Chapter 14 Reading Questions

-Mongol chart

-Where is Genghis Khan buried?

-Mongol impact handout

-Mongol National Identity handout

-Crash Course:  Mongol video clip

-Ch. 12-14 Test Review

 

Documents

-Marco Polo on Chinese Society under Mongol Rule (1270s)

-Excerpt from William of Rubruck's Account of the Mongols

-Giovanni Di Piano Carpini on the Mongols

-The Mongols: An excerpt from the Novgorod Chronicle, 1315

-Marco Polo, excerpts from Travels, c. 1300

-Francesco Balducci Pegolotti, A Fourteenth-Century Italian Guide for Merchants

-A Contemporary Describes Timur

-The Land of Prester John (1540) Francisco Alvarez

 

Chapter 15- The World in 1450:  Changing Balance of Power

-Chapter 15 Reading Questions

-Crash Course:  15th century Mariners

-Renaissance Webquest

 

Documents

-Christopher Columbus in the "New World" (1492)

-Columbus "The Letters of Columbus to Ferdinand and Isabel"

-Excerpt from the Travel Journal of Vasco da Gama

-Kritovoulos on the Fall of Constantinople (1450s)

-Nestor-Iskander on the Fall of Constantinople (1450s)