DIRECTIONS –  Take notes!  Do not rush through the 6 steps below!  ALSO- MOVIE TIME for #7!

1.  Know what is your AP focus (objective).  Go to your Unit Guide For APWH – p. 89.  Review Using the Unit Guide.

2.  TIME MAP

World Map  1648 CE Europeans have pioneered maritime trading systems which, for the first time, span the entire globe. These lead to vast changes in both Eastern and Western Hemispheres.
East Asia: China, Korea, Japan 1453 CE
The history of the region has been dominated by the rise and fall of the Mongol empire, but Ming dynasty China is now at the centre of a tributary system spanning East Asia.
East Asia: China, Korea, Japan 1648 CE 
In China, the Qing dynasty rules, and Japan and Korea have experienced one of the most destructive wars in East Asian history.
East Asia: China, Korea, Japan 1789 CE 
This is the last glorious phase of East Asia’s history before it feels the West’s impact, and Qing dynasty China dominates the region with its tributary system.
National Geographic – Interactive Mapping

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ASSIGNED TEXTBOOK READING –

• Ch 9 (p. 249 – 256)
• Use the following resource:  Textbook Reading Guidelines

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Video	Content	Historical Thinking Skills
1st Video	changing social hierarchies  and their immediate impact	3D – using evidence to refute or support and argument

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In this video Heimler explains how social hierarchies were strained and changed in the period 1450-1750. In the Ottoman Empire, viziers gained power because of a string of weak sultans. Also, a group of women, specifically, the sultan’s wives and concubines, gained power through what’s known as harem politics.

In the Qing Dynasty, the Manchu rulers oppressed the Han Chinese. One of the key contentions was the requirement for the Han to wear their hair in Manchurian queues.

In Europe, Russia’s social hierarchy was under strain too. The boyars fought with Ivan the Terrible for power, a fight which Ivan ultimately won. Also in Europe, Louis XIV, under the influence of absolutist thinking, stripped the nobility of their power and kept them under close surveillance in his palace at Versailles.

And in the Americas an altogether new social hierarchy was formed based on ancestry and race. At the top were the peninsula’s, followed by the criollos, followed by the castas. The last of these made up the Casta System which was a hierarchy of the American population who had mixed ancestry.

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7.  Movie Time!  Watch and enjoy the following:
Samurai (2024 version)
47 Ronin (1941 version)
47 Ronin (2013 version)
Seven Samurai 
Yojimbo
Sanjuro
Ran
The Last Samurai
The Admiral: Roaring Currents
Warriors of the Dawn

The above 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).