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AP World History: The Early Modern World: State-Building in Eurasia – Empires and Nations

H3X – Mr. Kagan

Students Will Understand:

• State-Building: the organizational forms of the modern centralized state

• The spread of Absolutist states: empire-building and expansion

• Strengths and weaknesses of the Spanish, French, Russian, Mughal, Ottoman, Tokugawa and Qing states

• The differences between a nation and an empire, and its significance

Students Will Be Able To:

• Identify and compare the main features of the modern states that emerged 1450-1750

• Analyze techniques of “State-building” and “Nation-building”

• Examine how geography, religion, and economic systems affected state-building

• Compare contiguous land-based empires with “colonial” empires

• Apply the techniques and rubric of comparative essays

• Write a “Policy Briefing Paper” using a variety of AP World essay skills

|Date |Topics |Homework – due the following day |

|Tuesday, Sept. 28 |Review of Test |Handout: List the key features of Absolutism |

| |Discussion of Policy Briefing Paper Assignment | |

|Wednesday |Unit Opener: State-Building in Eurasia – Key Ideas; How did 16th-18th |Duiker, pp. 448-58; 462-69 |

|Sept. 29 |century Absolutism change the nature of the state? In what ways did it |Create a modified (Absolutism) SPICES sheet for |

| |establish a model for modern states? Building a centralized state; |reading; make sure to look at two “boxed” areas of |

| |Empire-building and different models of expansion; Understanding the |text on p. 453, 469. |

| |difference between empires and nations | |

| |Case Study: the 16th and 17th century Spanish Empire | |

|Thursday |Absolutist Empires in East Asia: Ming and Qing China; Confucianism and | |

|Sept. 30 |bureaucracy in Qing China; Was China a nation or an empire? Comparing | |

| |Gunpowder Empires: Chinese, Russian and American expansion | |

|Friday |Absolutist Empires in East Asia: Japan; |Duiker, pp. 419-28; pp. 434-38; 441-42 Fill out |

|Oct. 1 |Was Tokugawa Japan a nation? Relations w/ the West; Comparing Japanese and |Graphic Organizers for Ottomans and Mughals |

| |Chinese centralization and absolutism: methods, strengths and weaknesses | |

|Monday |Absolutist Empires in the Islamic World: Ottomans | |

|Oct. 4 |Tools of Empire-Building in a multi-ethnic state: the Devershime, the | |

| |Janissaries, the Millet; Comparing the Ottomans with the Qing | |

|Tuesday |Absolutist Empires in the Islamic World: Safavid Empire in Persia: Shi’ites|Russia Handout. Fill out Graphic Organizer. |

|Oct. 5 |and Sunnis; Strengths and weaknesses of the Mughal Empire; Advising Akbar | |

| |on how to unite his empire | |

|Wednesday |Absolutist Empires in Eurasia: Russia plays “catch-up” |Protestant Reformation Handout. Explain how the |

|Oct. 6 |Characteristics of Russian expansionism; Attempts at centralized |Protestant Reformation led to state-building in |

| |State-building; Comparing Russia’s interaction with the west with the |Europe |

| |interaction of Tokugawa Japan | |

|Thursday |The Reformation, the Counter-Reformation and State-building in Europe; the |Handout: Louis XIV and Kangxi. Fill out Graphic |

|Oct. 7 |Rise of European monarchs and nations; Case Study: England |Organizer: Compare state-building in the French and |

| | |Chinese states during the late 17th and early 18th |

| | |centuries |

|Friday |Absolutist Empires in Europe: France and England(?) | |

|Oct. 8 |Comparing European and Asian Absolutists: the Kangxi Emperor and Louis XIV | |

| |of France; Pressures on Absolutism in France and England | |

|Tuesday |Half-Period Quiz: Multiple Choice Questions |Policy Briefing Paper due Wednesday evening on |

|Oct. 12 |Return of Empire-Building Comparative Essay: Review Of Comparative |Turnitin and Thursday in class – late papers will |

| |Methodology and Rubric |not be accepted. |

|Thursday |Half-Period Quiz: Comparative Graphic Organizers | |

|Oct. 14 |Introduction to 1750-1914 Period: Periodization and “What Students Need to | |

| |Know” | |

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