• China's Great Wall

  • Mecca, Saudi Arabia

  • Angkor Wat, Cambodia

  • Trans-Saharan Caravan

  • Indian Ocean Dhow

  • Rome, Italy

  • Moscow, Russia

Day

Date

Topics/Key Concepts

MON

1/8

Inclement Weather Day: complete "Post-Holiday Inventory" for Period 4.

TUE

1/9

Review work on Post Holiday Inventory. Science and Exploration (cont). For HW Read Europe, Exploration, and Colonization from Bulliet CH 15 (Find it on ItsLearning)

WED/THUR

1/10-1/11

Growth of Land-Based Empires: The Ottomans (Mankind video on Gunpowder). Read AP Worldipedia 4.3.II.B on the Ottoman Empire. Silver and Global Currency. Annotate Silver DBQ Docs.

FRI

1/12 Review of DBQ writing: Silver and Global Currency. HW For Tuesday: read pages 562-568 from CH 20 on the Qing and 538-541 on the Russian Empire from CH 19. Use the text files in ItsLearning (Bulliet). You might find Snapshot summaries of the  Qing and Russian Empires helpful. 

MON

1/15

NO SCHOOL

TUE

1/16

In-class skill activity: Analyzing Imperial Portraits--Qing methods of Imperial management. 

WED/THUR

1/17-1/18

A comparison of Empires (KC 4.3.I.): The Russian and Qing. HW For Friday read pages 536-541 on Mughal Empires and pages 524-531 on the Ottoman Empire. You might find the Snapshots of the Mughal and Ottoman Empires helpful. 

FRI

1/19

Setting groups and expectations for next week's Harkness Discussion: Comparing Techniques of Imperial Management: Land-based Empires