AP Euro 2015
Age of Exploration – 9/25 – 10/7
9/25 Fri
9/28 Mon
Reformation Test
Assign – reading and outlining of Chapter 14 due 10/6 and answer book LTs!!!
Assign – John Green - Columbus, de Gama, and Zheng He!
Go over test – 15 min
Start Age of Exploration Unit
LT - What was the Afroeuroasian trading world before Columbus?
LT - Why didn't the Chinese merchants continue to dominate the Afro-Asian trade network of the 15c?
Going over reading p. 426-32
9/29 Tues
Assign – Explorers grid – Prepare for the Championship EXPLORER OF 255!!!
LT - How and why did Europeans undertake ambitious voyages of expansion?
LT - Why were overseas voyages possible by the end of the 15c?
LT - Trace the origins and development of Portuguese exploration and expansion. What relationship
did it have to Italian commercial activities? Why were the Portuguese so successful?
LT - How did Spain come to acquire an overseas empire?
Going over reading p. 432 - 45
Pwpt on LT 1 and 2
Primary Doc – The Fall of Constantinople to the Ottomans – SOAPS and discussion
Explorer Epic Pyramid Game
Pwpt/discussion on Spain and Port building empires.
Assign – Venice and the Ottoman Empire – John Green
Assign – Cortes letters to Charles V - Primary Doc – SOAPS
9/30 Wed
Computer Day – Age of Exploration Globalization worksheet finish it in computer lab – we will
discuss this in class later. It is out of order due to me going to a AP conference. Sorry.
10/1 Thurs
Finish from Tuesday
Primary docs
10/2 Fri
Assign - Bartolome de Las Casa worksheet due Tues
LT - What was the impact of European conquest on the peoples and ecologies of the New
World?
a.
b.
c.
d.
What was the encomienda system? How did it work?
How did this new Spanish Empire organize their vast empire?
Describe the various social classes that emerged in colonial Spanish America?
Compare and contrast how the Spanish and Portuguese exploited their
respective overseas empires. This include motives, the economic impact on
each country, and their relations with the native populations.
e. What role did Bartolomé de Las Casas play in colonial Spanish America?
Going over reading p. 445 – 49
Pwpt/discussion on LT
Prime Doc – Interpreting the Spread of Disease Among Natives
Prime Doc – Tenochtitlan leaders respond to Spanish – compare to Missionaries to Japan or
from S-V book???
Assign –Finish Age of Globalization sheet #’s 1-3 using John Green
10/5 Mon
LT - How was the era of global contact shaped by new commodities, commercial empires, and forced
migrations?
a. What were the results for Europe, the Americas, and Africa of the "Columbian
Exchange"?
b. What were some of the results of the population increase in Europe between 1470 and
1620?
c. How did business practices change in Europe by the end of the 16c?
d. What new problems were created by the rapid growth of trade in the 16c?
e. What are the basic characteristics of capitalism as an economic system?
f. How did capitalism disrupt society in the Old World and in the New World?
g. Did the prosperity of the age extend to all segments of society?
h. How did European society change in the 16c and early 17c as a result of rapid
economic growth?
10/6 Tues
10/7 Wed
Debriefing from computer day – discussion
Assign – Slavery DBQ
Assign – John Green Slavery
Slavery DBQ – Group work and introduction – lay out arguements
Slavery Primary docs and discussion – Juan de Pareja, Description of Capo Bianco and King
Mbemba
Outline due
Assign – Tom Richey Age of Exploration – Not for points, but a good idea
Age of Exploration Test
Assign – Next unit outline