Course: 2nd Grading Period

Essays: Document-Based Question (DBQ)

Week

1 Christian Europe Emerges, 300 – 1200 10

• “Apples or Indians” (Chapter 8, GGS)
• “Feudalism: An Oath of Homage and Fealty” (Chapter 8, WH)
• “Manorialism: Duties of a Villein” (Chapter 8, WH)
• “Pope Urban at Clermont” (Chapter 10, WH)
• “The Capture of Jerusalem by the Crusaders” (Chapter 10, WH)
• “The Capitulary on Saxony and a Letter to Pope Leo III” (Chapter 10, HR I)

2 Central and Eastern Asia, 400 – 1200 11

• “Zebras, Unhappy Marriages …” (Chapter 9, GGS)
• “The Chinese Civil Service Exam System” (Chapter 8, WH)
• “The Tale of Genji” (Chapter 9, WH)
• Essay III (DBQ)

3 Civilizations of the Americas and Tropical Africa and Asia, 200 – 1500 12, 15

• “Spacious Skies and Tilted Axes” (Chapter 10, GGS)
• “Three Mayan Ceramic Sculptures” (Chapter 11, HR I)
• Unit IV Exam (50 multiple-choice questions)

Chronology: 1450 c.e. – 1750 c.e.

4 Western and Eastern Eurasia, 1200 – 1500 13-14

• “Lethal Gift of Livestock” (Chapter 11, GGS)
• “The Secret History of the Mongols” (Chapter 11, WH)
• “The History of the Mongols” Chapter 11, WH)
• “Description of the World” (Chapter 12, HR I)
• Essay IV (DBQ) – Timed!

5 The Latin West, 1200 – 1500 16

• “Blueprints and Borrowed Letters” (Chapter 12, GGS)
• “The Magna Carta” (Chapter 8, WH)
• “Biological Warfare at the 1346 Siege of Caffa” (Chapter 12, WH)
• “Origins of the Black Death” (Chpater 12, WH)
• “Images of the Black Death” (Chapter 12, WH)
• “Consequences of the Black Death in Europe” (Chapter 12, WH)
• “Towns and Cities” (Chapter 13, WH)
• Unit V Exam (60 multiple-choice questions)

6 The Maritime Revolution, to 1500 17

• “Necessity’s Mother” (Chapter 13, GGS)
• “1421: The Year China Discovered America” (Chapter 15, WH)
• “General History of the Things of New Spain” (Chapter 13, HR I)
• "Agreements with Columbus of April 17 and April 30, 1492” (Chapter 3, HR II)

7 The Transformation of Europe, 1500 – 1750 18

• “From Egalitarianism to Kleptocracy” (Chapter 14, GGS)
• “The Scientific Revolution in the West” (Chapter 19, WH)
• “On Miracles” (Chapter 20, WH)
• “Table Talk” (Chapter 3, HR II)
• “Decrees of the Council of Trent” (Chapter 3, HR II)
• “Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina” (Chapter 3, HR II)
• “New Organon” (Chapter 3, HR II)
• “Treatise on Toleration” (Chapter 5, HR II)
• “English Bill of Rights” (Chapter 5, HR II)

8 The Diversity of American Colonial Societies, 1530 – 1770 19

• “Yali’s People” (Chapter 15, GGS)
• “The Broken Spears: The Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico” (Chapter 16, WH)
• “The Devastation of the Indies” (Chapter 16, WH)
• “Compendium and Description of the West Indies” (Chapter 13, HR I)

9 The Atlantic System and Africa, 1550 – 1800 20

• “Appeal to the King of Portugal” (Chapter 16, WH)
• “A Voyage to New Calabar River in the Year 1699” (Chapter 13, HR I)
• “The Interesting Narrative of Olaudah Equiano Written by Himself” (Chapter 6, HR II)

10 AP World History Simulation II