Unit 1 Video OverviewThe Global Tapestry

1200-1450Watch each video and answer the questions.Your answers should be typed

in a different but reasonable font color.

1.1 Development in East Asia from 1200 to 1450: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wc1YgOeVEwI

1. Describe the Song State Structure.

2. Describe Confucianism during the Song Dynasty.

3. Describe the Civil Service Examination System.

4. Describe Chinese merchants’ role during this time.

5. Describe the increase in iron production during this time.

6. How did money change during the Song Dynasty?

7. Explain the impact of gunpowder in China.

8. How was Japan influenced by China? Give examples.

9. Explain the influence of Buddhism in China. Include Mahayana and Theravada.

10. Explain, with details, what made China a wealthy country.

11. Explain, with details, what unified China.

1.1 SummaryNames of dynasties in this era:

What are “traditional methods of Confucianism?”

How did Chinese dynasties use an imperial bureaucracy to maintain and justify their rule?

What are the core beliefs of Buddhism and how did Buddhism shape Chinese society?

How did Chinese dynasties use traditional methods of Confucianism to maintain and justify their rule?

How and when did Buddhism reach China? Which branch was it?

Identify 2 technological innovations which helped the economy flourish under the Song dynasty AND explain how they did?

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1.2. Developments In Dar al-Islam from 1200 to 1450

Video 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNlhcUJzKN0

1. What is Dar Al-Islam?

2. Explain the background of the Abbasid Caliphate.

3. How political Islam encountered other cultures and how they responded:a. India

i. Comparison of Islam and Hinduism

ii. Sufis

iii. Who converted? b. West Africa

i. How spread?

ii. Who converted to Islam?

4. What economic, cultural, and innovative technology did the Muslims bring to new cultures?

a. Economic:

b. Technological:

c. Cultural:

1.2 Video 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvnU0v6hcUo&feature=youtu.be

1. What can we say about the size of Africa and why does that matter?

2. Mansa Musa rose to power in ___________ which came after the ___________ Empire, but before the ___________ Empire. Mansa Musa needed to go on the ___________ as he was a ___________.

3. As Mansa Musa traveled he caused some problems for the places he went – what were those problems, how did he contribute to them, and how bad was it really?

4. Mansa Musa also had an impact on Europe, what was it?

5. How did the empires of West Africa come to convert to Islam?

6. Why would merchants (and eventually kings and other elites) want to convert to Islam?

7. What do the writings of Ibn Battuta show us about cross-cultural interactions?

8. What linked the peoples of East Africa? Give specifics!!a.

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1.2 SummaryDefine Dar al Islam:

Identify 2 Islamic beliefs and explain how each led to cultural or technological innovations

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Describe 2 ways Islam spread to North India (use Turkish and Delhi Sultanate in 1 of your descriptions)

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Describe 2 ways Muslim States and Empires encouraged significant intellectual innovations and transfers

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1.3 Developments in South and Southeast Asia from 1200 to 1450 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyAzNEmiGrY

State Building in South Asia1. India

2. Hindu Religious Beliefsa. Samsara:

b. Atman:

c. Moksha:

d. Brahman:

e. Karma:

3. Bhakti Movement:

4. Caste System:

5. Intellectual Influence:

State Building in Southeast Asia6. Majapahit Empire

7. Khmer Empire

1.3 Summary

Describe how Sufiism influenced South and SE Asia

Describe how Buddhist Monasticism influenced S and SE Asia

Identify one Buddhist and one Hindu state in S and SE Asia

Buddhist

Hindu

1.4 State Building in the Americas https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jAH6XsTkWo

State Building in Americas North America

1. Mississippian Culture (Cahokia)

Southwest America 2. Chaco and Mesa Verde Civilizations

Central America 3. Aztecs (Mexica)

4. Tribute System

1.4 Summary

Identify 4 of the 6 state systems in the Americas identified in the Acorn pg 43. Circle one of the 6 identified.

For the 1 circled, describe 2 ways the government maintained authority.

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For the 1 circled, describe one important feature of its social system.

For the 1 circled, describe one important feature of its cultural system.

For the 1 circled, describe one important feature of its economic system.

1.5 State Building in Africahttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jAH6XsTkWo

State Building In Africa 1. Kin Based Networks

2. Hausa Kingdom

1.5 Summary

Identify 1 state systems in Africa identified in the Acorn pg 44.

Describe 1 way the government maintained authority.

Describe one important feature of its social OR cultural system.

Describe one important feature of its economic system.

1.6 Developments in Europe from 1200 to 1450Video 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNm2UgJMLoY

1. What happened when Rome fell?

2. Describe Europe between 476 and 1,000: a. Feudalism:

b. Dark Ages - Describe:

c. High Middle Ages - Describe:

d. Magna Carta:

3. Roman Catholic Church and its Importance During This Time

4. Crusades: Economic and Social Change

5. Little Ice Age

6. Renaissance

1.6 Video 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0zudTQelzI&feature=youtu.be1. The Crusades were a series of ________________________ from parts of Europe to

the Eastern coast of the Mediterranean.

2. The first official Crusade began with a call to arms from __________________________ in _________________. He wanted to unite Europe by creating a common enemy; he called upon the knights and nobility of Europe to aid the Byzantines and help liberate ____________________.

3. What was the reasoning/motivation for those who took part in the First Crusade?

4. What was the outcome of the First Crusade?

5. By _________________, European nobles held both Antioch and Jerusalem as Latin Christian kingdoms.

6. Was the Second Crusade successful? (you will need to pause at 6:21 to read the text box to be able to answer this)

7. The Third Crusade was a European response to a new Islamic power lead by Sultan al- Malik al-Nasir Salah ed-Din Yusuf, better known as ______________.

8. The three kings in Europe who answered Pope Gregory VIII’s call for a Third Crusade were ________________________, Richard “Lionheart” I of England, and ___________ ___________________________.

9. Although the Crusaders didn’t re-take Jerusalem, how did the Third Crusade change the Crusades?

10. The Fourth Crusade is known as the “crazy one” as John Green labels it. After watching/listening to “Thought Bubble”, what aspect of the Crusade did you find most disturbing?

1.6 Video 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UN-II_jBzzo&feature=youtu.be

1. Venice is a city made up of hundreds of ___________________ at the northern tip of the __________________________.

a. What were the Venetians famous for?

b. What types of products did Venice tend to import?

c. What type did they produce?

2. Venice was unusual in this time period in that it was a Republic. What are the characteristics of being a Republic?

a. Venice’s primary trade partner, the Ottoman Empire, was an ________________.

3. How did the Ottoman Empire get its name?

a. The Ottomans were greatest in the _____ and _____ centuries under the two famous Sultans ____________________________________________ and _________________________________________________________.

b. The Ottomans, as a means of governing, created a new ruling class called the Slave Aristocracy. What are the characteristics of this government?

4. What agreement did the Venetians and the Ottoman Empire reach regarding naval trade?

a. How did this relationship help Venice becoming a leading city at the beginning of the European Renaissance?

1.6 Summary

What does it mean to say Europe was politically fragmented?

Define feudalism

Define manorial system Define serfdom

1.7 Comparison in the Period from 1200 to 1450 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5WHoq-YxFEState Building

1. Compare Song Dynasty in China and the Abbasid Caliphate

2. Compare Vijayanagara Empire and the Chola Kingdom

3. Compare Mali Empire and Ghana

4. Compare Aztec Empire and Incan Empire

5. Compare Europeans

Religion and its Role in State Building 6. Islam

7. Confucianism

8. Hinduism/Buddhism

9. Roman Catholic

10. Why did conversions occur?

Technological Exchanges 11. Champa Rice

12. Manufacturing of Paper

13. House of Wisdom

14. Importance of Nomadic People