WHI-Second Semester

Textbook: Traditions and Encounters

Chapter 14: The Expansive Realm of Islam

Chapter 15: The Resurgence of Empire in East Asia

Chapter 16: India and the Indian Ocean Basin (only pp. 405 – 408; 422 – 423; 428 - 429)

Chapter 18: Nomadic Empires and Eurasian Integration

Chapter 19: States and Societies of Sub-Saharan Africa (also Chapter 3 pp. 80-83)

Chapter 20: Western Europe during the High Middle Ages

Chapters 6 and 21: The Americas (Omit pp. 149 – 153; 555 – 560)

Chapter 22: Reaching Out: Cross-Cultural Connections (Omit pp. 586 – 591)

Chapter 14:

Concepts, Terms and People: hajj, dar al-Islam, Mecca, Quran, hadith, hijira, umma, Ka’ba, Five Pillars of Islam, sharia, caliph, Abu Bakr, Ali, Abu al-Abbas, Harun al-Rashid, ulama, jizya, madrasa, Sufis, Al-Ghazali, qadis, sakk

OBJECTIVES:

1. Identify Muhammad, discuss his background, and explain his teachings.

2. Explain and analyze the forces that drove Muslim expansion.

3. Explain the causes of the split between the Shia and the Sunni; list their similar and different beliefs.

4. Compare and contrast the methods of rule and types of government in the Umayyad and Abbasid dynasties.

5. Explain the reasons for the collapse of the Abbasid dynasty.

6. Explain and describe the changing status of women in the Islamic world.

7. Describe Muslim commerce, including banking and other techniques of business organization.

8. Describe Muslim trade practices, routes and trade goods, as well as innovations in sailing which expanded Muslim trade routes.

9. Describe Muslim cultural achievements from the 7th to 14th centuries.

Chapter 15:

Concepts, Terms and People: Sui Yangdi, Grand Canal, Tang Taizong, Chang’an, equal field system, examination system, An Lushan, Song Taizu, foot binding, flying money, Neo-Confucianism, Tang Tribute System, Silla dynasty, Khitan, Hangzhou, Heian Japan, shogun, samurai, The Tale of Genji

OBJECTIVES:

1. How did the Sui dynasty reunify China? Why was the dynasty so short lived?

2. Describe the Tang Dynasty’s military accomplishments, its economic development, and its cultural achievements.

3. Describe the Tang and Song Dynasties agricultural, technological, and industrial developments.

4. Discuss the cultural developments – especially the introduction of Buddhism - during the Tang and Song Dynasties.

5. List and explain new business practices which occurred during the Tang and Song eras.

6. Describe the weaknesses of the Song Dynasty.

7. Describe the achievements and shortcomings of the Song Dynasty.

8. Discuss and evaluate the status of women in China.

9. What influence did China have upon Korea; what influence did China have upon Vietnam?

10. What were the characteristics of Heian Japan?

11. Describe the importance of the shogun and samurai in feudal Japan.

Chapter 16:

Concepts, Terms and People: Harsha, Mahmud of Ghazni, Sultanate of Dehli, Bhakti Movement, Indian Ocean trade and trade routes

OBJECTIVES:

1. How did Islam enter the Indian subcontinent?

2. Why did Indians convert to Islam?

3. How did Islam enter Southeast Asia?

4. Why did Southeast Asians convert to Islam?

Chapter 18:

Concepts, Terms and People: Seljuk Turks, khan, shaman, Battle of Manzikert, Chinggis Khan, Karakorum, Marco Polo, the Khwarazm shah, Khubilai Khan, the Golden Horde, Ilkanate of Persia, Yuan dynasty, Tamerlane, Osman, Mehmed the Conqueror.

OBJECTIVES:

1. Describe the lifestyle and culture of nomadic society.

2. Describe the interaction between the Turks and the Abbasid and Byzantine empires as well as with Indian societies.

3. Describe the conquests, tactics, and governing policies of Chinggis Khan.

4. How did the Mongols rule Russia and Persia; what was the effect of their rule?

5. What were the long term effects of the Mongol conquests on Russia and the Middle East?

6. Discuss Kubilai Khan’s invasion of China and the effect of Mongol rule on Chinese culture.

7. Why were the Mongols unable to hold onto to their empire?

Chapter 19 and Chapter 3 (Partial):

Concepts, Terms and People: Bantu migrations, griots, trans-Saharan Trade routes, Sundiata, Mansa Musa, al-Bakri, ibn-Battuta, Swahili city states, Zimbabwe, slave trade, Axum, Timbuktu

OBJECTIVES:

1. What are stateless societies and how do they differ from other forms of political organization we’ve studied?

2. What were the characteristics of the Kingdom of Ghana?

3. What were the characteristics of the Kingdom of Mali?

4. What was the relationship among the Swahili City-States, the Indian Ocean trade routes, and Muslim merchants and rulers?

5. What was the impact of Islam upon the economy and indigenous religious beliefs in the West Afican kingdoms and the Swahili city-states?

6. Describe the social forms and cultural patterns of Sub-Saharan Africa: kinship groups, sex and gender relations, women’s roles, age groups, and slaves.

7. Describe indigenous African religious beliefs and practices.

8. Explain how Christianity entered.

Chapter 20:

Concepts, Terms and People: Investiture Controversy, Pope Gregory VII, Holy Roman Emperor Henry IV, Frederick Barbarossa, Capetians, William the Conqueror, parliament, Hanseatic league, chivalry, Eleanor of Aquitaine, guilds, scholasticism, St. Thomas Aquinas, Dominicans, Franciscans, reconquista, Crusades, Pope Urban II, (Christian) sacraments, (Christian) saints, relics, Virgin Mary, pilgrims and pilgrimages, St. Francis of Assisi, Pope Innocent III; Vinland

OBJECTIVES:

1. What 9th and 10th century developments helped pave the way for the revival of trade, urban centers, and learning in the High Middle Ages?

2. Describe the maritime trade and trade routes of medieval Europe.

3. How did the status of women change during the High Middle Ages?

4. Describe the intellectual accomplishments of the High Middle Ages.

5. Discuss the role of Christian religion in the lives of the people during the High Middle Ages.

6. Describe the causes of the Crusades and their impact on Europeans and the Muslim World.

Chapters 6 and 21:

Concepts, Terms and People: bloodletting ceremonies, Mesoamerican Ball Game, Maya, Tikal, Chichén Itzá, Olmecs, Toltecs, Teotihuacan, Aztecs, "tribute empire", chinampa system, Tenochtitlan, Quetzalcóatl, Huitzilopochtli, Incas, mita system, quipu, “royal mummies”, Cuzco, Inti, Viracocha.

OBJECTIVES:

1. What were the achievements of Olmec civilization; what is the significance of the Olmecs?

2. What were the religious beliefs and cultural achievements of the Maya; why did that society collapse?

3. Why was Teotihuacan such an influential city?

4. What kinds of agricultural practices developed in Mesoamerica? What crops did native peoples cultivate?

5. Describe the founding of Tenochtitlan and the rise, accomplishments and characteristics of the Aztec Empire.

6. Explain Aztec and Incan religious beliefs and practices.

7. Describe the rise, accomplishments and characteristics of the Inca people.

8. Compare how the Aztec and Incans treated conquered peoples.

9. Explain the role of social classes in both the Aztec and Incan societies.

10. Explain the political and economic operation of both the Inca and Aztec kingdoms.

11. Explain how the Aztec and Inca empires fell.

Chapter 22:

Concepts, Terms and People: Ibn Battuta, Bubonic Plague, Little Ice Age, Zheng He, humanism,‘Renaissance man’ secularism, Mirandola, Leonardo da Vinci, Machiavelli, Castiglione, Michelangelo, de Medici family, Petrarch

OBJECTIVES:

1. Evaluate the success of Muslim and Christian missionaries in Asia, 1000 – 1500 CE.

2. Discuss cross-cultural exchanges between the west and east, 1000 – 1500 CE.

3. What were the social and economic effects of the Black Death?

4. Describe the artistic and intellectual changes that separated medieval from Renaissance Europe.

5. What was humanism and what were the goals of a humanist education?

6. Compare and contrast Renaissance and Medieval Europe in terms of social, economic, and political organization.

7. "How did the Northern Renaissance differ from the Italian Renaissance?"

8. Describe the experience of women in the Renaissance.