Mr. Stenger

Period 4:  Global Interactions, 1450 to 1750

Chapter 16- The World Economy

        -Chapter 16 Reading Questions

-The Age of Exploration handout

-Is Arabian sea yielding 500 year old shipwreck article?

-Crash Course:  The Columbian Exchange

 

Documents

-Christopher Columbus, journal excerpt and letter

-Gaspar Correa, excerpt from his journal, 1502

-Jean Baptiste Colbert, "Mercantilism: Dissertation on Alliances"

-The Second Letter of Hernan Cortéz to King Charles V of Spain (1519) Hernan Cortéz

 

Chapter 17- The Transformation of the West

-Chapter 17 Reading Questions

-Crash Course:  The Renaissance

-Crash Course:  Luther and the Protestant Reformation

-Western European chart (after 1450)

-Speed Dating Activity

-Speed Dating Nametag Example

 

Documents

-Baron de Montesquieu, Excerpt from The Spirit of the Laws

-Calvin on Predestination (16th c.)

-Cesare Beccaria, On Crimes and Punishments

-Cromwell Abolishes the English Monarchy (1651)

-Voltaire, Letters On England

-Voltaire on the Relation of Church and State (Mid-18th Century)

-Utopia (1516) Sir Thomas More

-Thomas Hobbes, The Leviathan

-The Prince (1519) Machiavelli

-The English Bill of Rights (1689)

-The Edict of Nantes, 1598

-Council of Trent (1545-1563)

-Mary Wollstonecraft, Introduction to A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

 

Chapter 18- The Rise of Russia

-Chapter 18 Reading Questions

-Russia chart

-Semester 1 Final Review

-Quizlet- Ch. 6

-Quizlet- Ch. 7

-Quizlet- Ch. 8

-Quizlet- Ch. 9

-Quizlet- Ch. 10

-Quizlet- Ch. 11

-Quizlet- Ch. 12

-Quizlet- Ch. 13

-Quizlet- Ch. 14

-Quizlet- Ch. 15

-Quizlet- Ch. 16

-Quizlet- Ch. 17

-Quizlet- Ch. 18

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Documents

-Foreign Traveler in Russia (early 17th century)

-Peter the Great, "Correspondence with Alexis" (1715)

-Catherine the Great, "Instruction for a New Law Code"

-Filofei's Concept of the ‘Third Rome’ (1515) Filofei

-On the Corruption of Morals in Russia (late 18th c.) Prince Mikhail Mikhailovich Shcherbatov

 

Chapter 19- Early Latin America

-Chapter 19 Reading Questions

-Crash Course:  The Spanish Empire and Silver

-Ch. 19 Early Latin American Outline Review

 

Documents

-Bartolomé de las Casas, from Brief Account of the Devastation of the Indies

-Excerpt from In Defense of the Indians (1550) Bartolomé de las Casas'

-Pope Paul III, Sublimus Dei, "On the Enslavement and Evangelization of Indians in the New World"

-Smallpox epidemic in Mexico, 1520, from Bernardino de Sahagún

 

Chapter 20- Africa and the Atlantic Slave Trade

-Chapter 20 Reading Questions

-Crash Course:  Atlantic Slave Trade

-African Slave Trade Assignment

-Slave Trade Power Point

 

Documents

-A Defense of the Slave Trade (1740) Anonymous

-An African Pamphleteer Attacks Slavery (1787) Quobna Ottobah Cugoano

-Olaudah Equiano, excerpt from The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano

-Leo Africanus' Description of West Africa (1500) Leo Africanus

-Willem Bosman, from A New and Accurate Description of the Coast of Guinea

 

Chapter 21- The Muslim Empires

-Chapter 21 Reading Questions

-Crash Course:  The Mughal Empire and Historical Reputation

-Gunpowder Empire chart

-Gunpowder Empire chart- answers

 

Documents

-Abu Taleb Khan, A Muslim Indian's Reactions to the West

-Aurangzeb, Mughal Ruler (late 1600s)

-Excerpt from the Memoirs of Babur

-Excerpts from the Biography of Emperor Akbar of India

-Excerpts from the Biography of Shah Abbas I

-The English in South Asia and the Indian Ocean early 1600s

-The Decline of the Ottomans (1592) Lorenzo Bernardo

-Sunni versus Shi'ite: Letter from Selim I to Ismail I

 

Chapter 22- Asia Transitions in an Age of Global Change

-Chapter 22 Reading Questions

-Ming China handout

-Ming China chart

-Chapter 19-22 Test Review

-Unification of Japan (YOU DECIDE) timeline answers

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Documents

-Closed Country Edict of 1635 & Exclusion of the Portuguese, 1639 (1635, 1639) Ieyasu Tokugawa

-Injunctions to Peasants, Tokugawa Shogunate, 1649