AP Content is complete! You are now AP SURVIVORS!

DIRECTIONS –  Take notes!  Do not rush through the 6 steps below!  Step #7 is for your enjoyment!

1.  Know what is your AP focus (objective).  Go to your Unit Guide For APWH – p. 59.  Review Using the Unit Guide.

2.  TIME MAP:  Africa 1215 CE
The expansion of trade in West Africa is leading to the rise of new kingdoms.
National Geographic – Interactive Mapping

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ASSIGNED TEXTBOOK READING – Ch 4 (p. 100).  Use the following resource:  Textbook Reading Guidelines

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Video	Content	Historical Thinking Skills
1st Video	growth of empires and new technologies resulted in the expansion of trade	1B – skill of identifying a historical process
2nd Video	trans-Saharan trade routes	1B  – describing a historical process

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Be on the look out for an updated Heimler video soon.

CAVEAT!  Heimler’s video below covers 3 topic sections (focus on 2.4 only)!   Start the video at 7:05 minutes.

In this video Heimler takes you around Afro-Eurasia to consider the major networks of exchange that existed in 1200-1450. The three main trade networks were the Silk Roads, the Indian Ocean Trade Routes, and the Trans-Saharan trade.

The Silk Roads and the Trans-Saharan routes stretched across land and linked all of Afro-Eurasia. The Indian Ocean routes did the same, but along the sea.

Merchants travelled these routes carrying wares for sale, but arguably the goods they bought and sold was the least significant consequence of merchant activity. Merchants also brought cultures along with them on their journeys. When Muslim merchants showed up in East Africa, it wasn’t long before the Africans converted to Islam. When Buddhism travelled across trade routes it morphed both outwardly and inwardly.

So trade is among the most important activities in the transformation of cultures.

6.  Freemanpedia-pedia: CLICK HERE

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

7.   MOVIE TIME: Pick and enjoy either the movie or Netflix series below related to the medieval time frame:
Mongol and Marco Polo

The movies may contain adult material so be sure to watch them with your parents or guardian.  Also, be sure to focus on the visual and cultural interpretations that the movies offer (but be wary and skeptical of the over dramatization and historical inaccuracies that the movies may also contain).