Chapter 14: Empires and Encounters

A Whole New World!!!

OOOOOPS!!!!  Sorry Arab World. Not you...  

AHHHHH That's better!!!!

Agenda:  February 16th-20th
Monday February 16th

1. Personal CCOT
2. Intro to Colonial Abuses Fishbowl (Fri Feb 27th)

Tuesday February 17th

1. European Empires in the Americas
1. Margin review questions and map study
2. Comparing Colonial Societies in the Americas
1. Margin review questions 
2. Analysis of Zinn chapter one

Wednesday February 18th

1. Institute Day- NO STUDENT ATTENDANCE

Thursday February 19th

1. Practice CCOT 
1. Analyze continuities and changes in the commercial life of the Indian Ocean region from 650 C.E. to 1750 C.E.

Friday February 20th

1. The Making of a Russian Empire
2. Asian Empires

CHAPTER 14 AND 15:

LEARNING OBJECTIVES Chapter 14:

• Introduce students to a variety of empires of the early modern period
• Analyze empire building as not only a Western European phenomenon
• Analyze the varieties of colonial societies that evolved and the reasons for the differences between them
• Evaluate sources of colonial abuse to place European interaction in the context of Western civilization
• Describe the massive social reordering that attended European colonization in the Western Hemisphere

Key Vocabulary:

• Akbar
• Aurengzeb
• Columbian Exchange
• conquistadores
• 1453 Constantinople
• creoles
• devshirme
• fixed winds
• the "great dying"
• jizya
• mercantilism
• mestizo
• Mughal Empire
• mulattoes
• Ottoman Empire
• peninsulares
• plantation complex
• Qing Dynasty
• settler colonies
• Siberia
• yasak
• Zunghars

America Before Columbus!!!!  (VIDEO)

Andrew Marr's History of the World: Age of Plunder

Engineering an Empire:  Russia

Crash Course: Columbian Exchange

Atlantic Slave Trade

Mankind: The Story of All of Us (Treasure)

LEARNING OBJECTIVES and Note Taking Guide Chapter 15:

• Analyze the creation of the first true global economy in the period 1450-1750
• Contextualize Western European commercial expansion according to the contributions of other societies
• Rank China in terms of economic importance in the early modern era
• Apply the ecological and humanistic outcomes to the economic boom of the early modern era
• Analyze the various models of trading post empires that were created in this period

Presidents Day Week

Presidents Day Week:  

Not all of the following were presidents...but they are leaders influential to the masses.  As we prepare to learn about two worlds clashing...I think it important to reflect on some of our greatest leaders' words and how they can be inspire us to truly change the world for the better...and also the worst.  

CHAPTER 14 Note Guide

CHAPTER 14 NOTE TAKING GUIDE