Selected primary source documents from Sterns, Traditions and Encounters including:
Mo’ikeha’s Migration from Tahiti to Hawai’i
Christopher Columbus’s Frist Impressions of American Peoples
Selected primary sources from Strayer, Ways of the World including:
Visual Sources: Considering the Evidence: Sacred Places in the World of the Fifteenth Century
Considering the Evidence: State Building in the Early Modern Era
Considering the Evidence: The Conquest of Mexico Through Aztec Eyes
Considering the Evidence: Voices of the Slave Trade
Visual Sources: Exchange and Status in the Early Modern World
Selected scholarly articles from Taking Sides including:
Did China’s Worldview Cause the Abrupt End of Its Voyages of Exploration? Nicholas Kristof from “1492: The Prequel,” The New York Times Magazine (June 6, 1999) and Bruce Swanson from Eighth Voyage of the Dragon: A History of China’s Quest for Seapower (Naval Institute Press, 1982).
Did Christopher Columbus’ Voyages Have a Positive Effect of World History? Robert Royal from “Columbus and the Beginning of the New World.” First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life (May 1999)and Gabriel Garcia Marquez, from “For a Country Within Reach of the Children,: Americas (November/December 1997).
Did the West Define the Modern World?. William H. McNeill from The Rise of the West: A History of the Human Community (University of Chicago Press, 1991) and Philip D. Curtin, from The World and the West: The European Challenge and the Overseas Response to the Age of Empire (Cambridge University Press, 2000).
Selected articles from Strayer, Cultures in Motion, including:
Christianity and the Americas
The Spread of Islam
Possible Activities:
Students will debate the impact of the voyage of Columbus
Students will analyze the Mughal rule in India through a DBQ essay
Students will analyze the continuities and changes in various regions involvement in trade from 600 to 1750. Regions include China, Sub-Sahara Africa, South Asia, and the Middle East through writing an essay.
Students will analyze the similarities and differences in the interaction with Western Europe of various regions during 1450 to 1750 through writing an essay. Regions include Russia, Ottoman Empire, Tokugawa Japan, and Latin America.
Students will map various interactions between the Americas, Asia, Africa, Europe, and Oceania
Unit IV: Period 5: Industrialization and Global Integration c. 1750 to c. 1900 Key Concept 5.1 Industrialization and Global Capitalism
Selected primary source documents from Sterns, Traditions and Encounters including:
Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen
Manifesto of the Communist Party
Ponciano Arriaga Calls for Land Reform: “A Mexican Radical: Ponciano Arriaga”
Proclamation of the Young Turks
Letter of Lin Zenxu to Queen Victoria
Selected primary sources from Strayer, Ways of the World including:
Considering the Evidence: Claiming Rights
Considering the Evidence: Varieties of European Marxism
Considering the Evidence: Voices of the Opium War
Considering the Evidence: Indian Responses to Empire
Selected scholarly articles from Taking Sides including:
Did the Industrial Revolution Lead to a Sexual Revolution? Edward Shorter from “Female Emancipation, Birth Control and Fertility in European History,” The American Historical Review (June 1973) and Louise A. Tilly, Joan W. Scott, and Miriam Cohen, from “Women’s Work and European Fertility Patterns,” Journal of Interdisciplinary History (Winter 1976).
Did the Meiji Restoration Constitute a Revolution in Nineteenth-Century Japan?Andrew Gordon from A Modern History of Japan: From Tokugawa Times to the Present (Oxford University Press, 2003)and W.G. Beasley, from The Meiji Restoration (Stanford University Press, 1972).
Were Economic Factors Responsible for British Imperialism? J.A. Hobson from Imperialism: A Study (University of Michigan Press, 1965) and John M. MacKenzie, from The Partition of Africa: 1880-1900 and European Imperialism in the Nineteenth Century (Methuen & Co., 1983)
Was China’s Boxer Rebellion Caused by Environmental Factors? Paul A. Cohen, from History in Three Keys: The Boxers as Event, Experience, and Myth (Columbia University Press, 1997) and Henrietta Harrison, from Justice on Behalf of Heaven: The Boxer Movement,” History Today (September 2000)
Selected articles from Strayer, Cultures in Motion, including:
Students will compare the administrative structure of either the Russian or the Qing Empire to that of either the Ottoman or the Mughal Empire
Students will analyze issues involved with independence and nation building in Latin American through DBQ analysis and will compose an essay.
Students will write an essay describing the continuities and changes in the effects of the process of industrialization of two of the following countries from 1750 to 1900: China, Japan, Russia, or the Ottoman Empire
Students will create an annotated map showing the effects of Industrialization in each region of the world.
Students will debate the justification, cause, and outcome of Western Imperialism
Students will construct arguments for and against the positive impact of Industrialization on women.
Unit V: Period 6: Accelerating Global Change and Realignments, c. 1900 to the Present