AP World HistorySeptember 25, 2015 (b-Week)

Warm Up – September 25, 2015

The five pillars:A. Are inattentive to distinctions in social classB. Are included in the QuranC. Require religious instruction as an entrance to the Islamic faithD. Provide unity within IslamE. Address both religious and secular matters

Agenda

• 1st Period – Debate Team, Chapter 6 Guided Reading, Intro to Unit 3

• 2nd Period –Chapter 6 Guided Reading, Intro to Unit 3

• 3rd Period – “History Makers” in Theater + Chapter 6 Guided Reading, Intro to Unit 3

• Reminders: • Chapter 6 guided reading due Friday, October 2nd • Test corrections will be given out next week.

Test Corrections

• Directions: Re-write the question, answer choices (all of them), and explain the correct answer in at least 2 complete sentences. You must also explain why you think you got the question wrong.

• You will receive 1 point back for each correction you do correctly. All corrections are due on Monday, September 28th by 4PM. No exceptions.

Chapter 6 Guided Reading

•Must be done in complete sentences. • Due Friday, October 2nd.

Intro to Unit 3The Next Wave of Civilizations

600 CE – 1450 CE

Third wave civilizations

The Question of Periodization

• How should we understand the millennium that stretches from the end of the classical era to the beginning of modern world history? 200 and 850CE – classical states &

civilizations disrupted, declined, or collapsed. Columbus’s transatlantic voyages around

1500 mark a new departure in world history.

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• Hard to define a distinct identity for this period• Postclassical?• Medieval or Middle Ages?

•We are now in – Third-wave civilizations• 1st Wave: Egypt, Mesopotamia, China, Indus

River• 2nd Wave: Rome, Greece, Persia, Han

Differing Trajectories

Changes!• New but smaller

civilizations where none had existed• East African Swahili

civilization• Kievan Rus• Japan, Korea, Vietnam• Srivijaya (Indonesia)• Angkor (Cambodia)

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globalization of civilization• new civilizations were

distinctive, but similar to earlier civilizations

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Differing Trajectories

Radical change• Most expansive and

influential 3rd wave civilization was Islam• Defines the beginning of

this period• Political & economic

system a tool of religion• Usually the other way

around

Continuities• Older civilizations

persisted or reconstructed • New civilizations were

similar to earlier civilizations• Byzantine Empire• China• India• Niger River Valley

Differing Trajectories

Continuities• Western Europe

• Decentralized societies emerged• Vandals, Visigoths, Franks,

Huns, Saxons, Angles, Goths…• Hybrid civilization of classical

& Germanic elements emerges

• Development of highly competitive states after 1000

Changes• Collapse of classical Maya

civilization & Teotihuacán• reshaped ancient

civilization• Aztecs emerge

• Inca form an empire out of various centers of Andean civilization

Trans-regional Interaction

• The theme is – the massive increase in interaction between the world’s regions, cultures, and peoples.• Increasingly, change caused by contact with

strangers and/or their ideas, armies, goods, or diseases

• Cosmopolitan regions emerged in a variety of places—“mini-globalizations”

Accelerating Pace of Interaction

• Trade• Empire• Interactions between the two

Key Thematic Elements

Trade• Growth of long-distance

commerce• Led to the establishment

of many new states or empires• Religious ideas,

technologies, and germs moved along trade routes

Empire• Large empires, incorporating

many distinct cultures under a single political system• provided security for trade• 3rd wave civilizations were

larger (Arab, Mongol, & Inca)• largest empires created by

nomadic or pastoral peoples (Arabs, Turks, Mongols, Aztecs)

Trade and Empire Together

• Spread of ideas, technologies, crops, and germs•Wide diffusion of religions•Wide diffusion of technologies, many from China and India• Devastating epidemic disease (e.g., Black Death) linked distant communities

Trade and Empire Together

• Focus on accelerating connections puts a spotlight on travelers rather than on those who stayed at home.• A focus on interaction raises questions:• How much choice did individuals or societies

have in accepting new ideas or practices?• How much choice did they have about how

they made those decisions?