Topics:

1.1 Developments in East Asia
2.1 The Silk Roads
2.5 Cultural Consequences of Connectivity

Watch the Intro Video on 1200-1450 and China.

Complete Google form questions on the above video. 
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Textbook readings (See ItsLearning)

Read The Silk Roads

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Use Google My Maps to demonstrate the dissemination of Chinese culture across Asia

 Video on how to submit your map.

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Contextualize and analyze THIS DOCUMENT. Submit your response in ItsLearning. 

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Watch the video on The Paragraph, then submit a single paragraph about the growth of China's economy with one claim, supported by two pieces of specific evidence.

• Familiarize students with how the period 1200 to 1450 will be organized by topics.
• Understand continuities in Chinese state-building in this era

• Understand the nature of networks of trade that connected China with other civilizations and peoples.

• Understand China's cultural impact on specific areas around Asia. 

• Practice skill of contextualization and analyzing primary sources

• Understand the cause of China's economic growth during the Song Dynasty.
• Be able to craft a paragraph with a single claim supported by multiple pieces of historical evidence. 

Topics:

1.2 Developments in Dar al-Islam
1.5 State Building in Africa
2.4 Trans-Saharan Trade Routes

Watch intro video on Islam from 1200 to 1450.

Complete Google form questions on video.

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Analyze the 6 documents on Islam from this era (see ItsLearning). Make note of changes that took place as well as continuities (things that stayed the same). Isolate the documents you would use to make a claim about changes and about continuities. Submit your responses in the Google form. 

Read Internet Notes on Africa

• Understand how Islam strengthened state-building in Sub Saharan Africa
• Identify the mosque and Jenne, and explain how it represents the impact of Islam in Africa
• Understand the role of Islam on trans-Saharan trade routes. 

• Identify the significance of the Kingdom of Mail and Mansa Musa.

• Identify changes and continuities in Islamic civilizations between 1200 and 1450.
• Practice analyzing multiple primary sources.
• Practice making historical claims.

Watch the video on How to Study for AP World History.

Complete the Appositive Connections Sheet

Read Section called ¨Civilizations of the Fifteenth Century: The Americas,"  (pages 588-594, as numbers on the pages) in Strayer (CH 13).

Complete analyses and tasks based on Topic 1.4 Documents.

Listen to Podcast Quiz on Mongols

Objectives for this podcast:

• How did the environment shape the nature of steppe civilization
• How were the Mongols able to unify an empire on the Central Asian steppes?
• What was the effect of the Mongols on trade?
• What was the impact of the Mongols on Russia, China, and the Dar al Islam?

Take online quiz on podcast in ItsLearning.

• Understand and practice effective study strategies for APWH

• Explain the nature of Pre-Columbian state-building in the Americas

Attend live video lecture on Topic 1.6

Read Topic 2.3 in AP Worldipedia

Read the section called Sea Roads: Exchange Across the Indian Ocean, that begins on page 341 and ends on 348 of the reading Commerce and Culture. (Stayer text).

Read Diasporic Communities and respond to the following meme on Flipgrid (link is in ItsLearning)

Complete and submit Appositive Connections vol 2.

• Explain the impact of the environment on trade networks
• Explain the causes of cultural diffusion 
• Know the role of diasporic merchant communities

Complete Personal Progress Check for Unit 2 on AP Classroom.

Your results on the two progress checks will create a customized review plan for this week's Exam on the years 1200 to 1450. Find your customized review plan in ItsLearning.

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Ibn Battuta Trip Advisor Review Project.

After reading Ibn Battuta and Marco Polo: The Pilgrim and the Merchant, watch the video above for directions on completing and submitting your project. 

HERE is the link to the travel pages. 

View PowerPoint reviews on Topics from Unit 1 and Unit 2. HERE are all the Topic Pages.