Unit
What students are expected to
know:
Major Developments:
1. Questions of Periodization
Continuities and breaks, causes of changes from the previous period and
within
this period
2. Changes in
trade, technology, and global interactions; e.g the
Columbian
Exchange, the impact of
guns, changes in shipbuilding, and navigational devices
3. Knowledge of major empires and other political units and social systems
a.
Aztec, Inca,
Tokugawa, Mughal,
b. Characteristics of African empires in general but knowing one (Kongo,
c. Gender and empire (including the role of
women in households and in
politics)
4. Slave systems and slave trade
5.
Demographic and environmental changes:
diseases, animals, new crops, and
comparative population
trends
6. Cultural and intellectual developments
a. Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment
b. Comparative global causes and impacts of
cultural change (e.g., African contributions to cultures in the
d. Major developments and exchanges in the arts
(e.g., Mughal, the
7. Diverse interpretations
a. What are the debates about the timing and
extent of European
predominance in the world
economy?
b. How does the world economic system of this
period compare with patterns of
interregional trade in
previous period?
Major Comparisons and
Analyses: Examples
-Compare colonial administrations
-Compare Coercive labor systems: slavery and other coercive labor systems in
the
Analyze the development of empire (i.e., general empire
building in
-Analyze Imperial systems: a European sea-borne empire compared with a land-based Asian empire
-Compare
-Compare Mesoamerican and Andean systems of economic exchange
Examples of the types of information students are expected to know contrasted with examples of those things students are not expected to know for the multiple-choice section:
Importance of European exploration, but not individual explorers
Characteristics of European absolutism, but not specific rulers
Protestant Reformation, but not Anabaptism or Huguenots
Extent of Ottoman expansion, but not individual
Relations
between Kongo and
Institution of the harem, but not Hurrem Sultan
Slave plantation
systems, but not
Tokugawa