AP World History: The Early Modern World: State-Building ...



AP World History: The Early Modern World: State-Building in Eurasia – Empires and NationsH2X – Mr. KaganStudents Will Understand: State-Building: the organizational forms of the modern centralized stateThe spread of Absolutist states: empire-building and expansion throughout the worldHow well the Spanish, French, Russian, Mughal, Ottoman, Tokugawa and Qing states conformed to the “model” of an absolutist and centralized stateThe differences between a nation and an empire, and their significanceStudents Will Be Able To: Identify and compare the main features of the modern states that emerged 1450-1750Analyze techniques of “State-building” and “Nation-building”Examine how geography, religion, and economic systems affected state-buildingCompare contiguous land-based empires with “colonial” maritime empiresOn Friday May 13, I will “take” the 2011 AP Test for my 10th graders, writing, during 2nd and 3rd periods, this year’s CCOT and Comparative Essays. If you have a free period, you are welcome to come and watch them test me. DateTopicsHomework – due the following dayTuesday May 10Silver Trade DBQWednesday May 11TestBentley, pp. 569-77; List the key features of absolutismThursdayMay 12Land Based vs. Maritime Empires; Empires with nations at their heart; Three models of empire: settler colonization, exploitation, assimilationFridayMay 13Map-Making and the Geography of EmpiresBentley, pp. 563-69 and Handout. Explain the ways in which the Protestant and Catholic Reformations led to state-building in EuropeMondayMay 16Protestant Reformation; State-Building in Europe; Case study: Great BritainTuesdayMay 17Catholic Reformation; increasing the power of the StateWednesdayMay 18France: Louis XIV and Mercantilism; centralization; empire-building; nation-buildingQing China Handout and Graphic OrganizersThursdayMay 19China from Ming to Qing; ethnic expansion and empire; Kangxi as the model of a (Qing) Confucian rulerLouis XIV / Kangxi Handout w/ Graphic OrganizerFriday May 20Kangxi and Louis XIV: Is there a single model of absolutist state-building?Tokugawa Japan Handout and Graphic OrganizerMonday May 23Absolutist Empires in East Asia: Japan; Was Tokugawa Japan a nation? Relations w/ the West; Comparing Japanese and Chinese centralization and absolutism: methods, strengths and weaknesses Would you close your borders?Russia Handout and Graphic OrganizerTuesday May 25Absolutist Empires in Eurasia: Russia plays “catch-up”Characteristics of Russian expansionism; Attempts at centralized State-building; Comparing Russia’s interaction with the west with the interaction of Tokugawa JapanWould you close your borders? Is Russia an Asian or a European “empire?”Mughal and Ottoman Handout and Graphic OrganizersWednesday May 25Absolutist Empires in the Islamic World: OttomansTools of Empire-Building in a multi-ethnic state: the Devershime, the Janissaries, the Millet; Comparing the Ottomans with the QingAkbar and Elizabeth Handout; write an appropriate comparative conclusion to this essayThursdayMay 26Absolutist Empires in the Islamic World: Safavid Empire in Persia: Shi’ites and Sunnis; Strengths and weaknesses of the Mughal EmpireFriday May 27Empire across time: from Han to Qing; from Umayyad to Ottoman/Mughal; from Rome to France/Spain; from Byzantine to RussiaResearch Paper Due TuesdayTuesdayMay 31Research Paper DueAn Odd Little Nation: The problems of English absolutism; the Magna Carta and the creation of a “national history; Elizabeth’s Golden SpeechWednesdayJune 1 Test; Multiple Choice and Graphic OrganizersEnglish Revolutions Handout and assignmentThursdayJune 2An Odd Little Nation: The English Civil War; Macchiavelli and HobbesFridayJune 3An Odd Little Nation: The Glorious Revolution and the end of absolutist rule; negative rights and freedom from the state; forsaking the positive rights Chinese model; John Locke and the EnlightenmentMondayJune 6Test Review and Summer AssignmentTuesdayJune 7To Be AnnouncedWednesdayJune 8Essay Test – To Be AnnouncedThursdayJune 9No SchoolFridayJune 10Test ReviewMondayJune 13Multiple Choice TestTuesdayJune 14Last day ................
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