AP World History 2016- 2017
Reading/Tests Pacing Guide for Unit 4 (1450 - 1750)
West Broward High School – Mrs. Rivas
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Guiding Questions/ Unit Test
Begin Unit 4 - c. 1450 to c. 1750 - Global Interactions
Ch. 14 - 16
1. List geographical, economic, political, social, technological and religious
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Ch. 14
626 - 639
Political
Transformations:
Empires and
Encounters
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Ch. 14, Part II
640 - 650
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Ch. 15
674 – 682
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Ch. 15
Part II
682 – 688
Global Commerce
Economic
Changes and
Consequences
reasons that explain European exploration and conquest of the Americas.
2. Explain and analyze the demographic changes occurring in the Americas
due to European arrival and empire building.
3. List animals, food crops and populations that moved from one region to the
other. Make sure you explain from where to where the movement occurred
and the impact on that new region. See index card.
4. Explain the new economic and social systems imposed on Middle and South
America by Spain after conquering the Aztecs and the Incas See index card.
5. How were the sugar plantations of Brazil and the Caribbean similar? How
were both these plantation systems different from those of the southern
colonies in British North America?
6. How did the British colonies of North America differ from Latin America
under Spanish rule?
7. What were the reasons for Russian expansion between 1500 and 1800?
8. How did Russian conquest of the steppes and Siberia impact the people of
that region? See index card
9. How was Russian empire-building similar and different from the building of
empires by Spain, Portugal and England occurring at this same time?
10. List Asian empires that were created during this same time period? See
index card.
11. EESPRIITE the Qing Dynasty of the Manchu people that ruled China.
See index card
12. EESPRIITE the Mughal dynasty of India. See index card.
13. How did Mughal attitudes and policies toward Hindus change from the
time of Akbar to that of Aurangzeb?
14. EESPRIITE the Ottoman Empire. See index card.
15. How did the rise of the Ottoman Empire impact Europe
1. What factors led to European involvement in Asian trade?
2. Why and how were the Portuguese able to into the Indian Ocean trade?
3. How much control of the Indian Ocean Trade were the Portuguese able to
obtain? See index card.
4. Describe Spanish rule in Asia. See index card
5. Compare British and Dutch control over Asia at this time.
6. How did European trade in the Indian Ocean change over time in the era
1450 – 1750?
7. How did the response of Japan’s government to westerners change from
when the first Portuguese traders and merchants first arrived in the mid16th
century to the early 17th century?
8. List the places that were part of the global trade in silver? See index card
9. How did China’s government spark global trade of silver?
10. What was the impact of the global trade of silver on Potosi and Spain?
12. Why did Spain’s economy collapse even with the influx of silver?
13.What the role of Japan in the global trade of silver and how did this trade
impact Japan?
14. What was the impact of the global trade of silver on China?
12 – 14. Analyze similarities and differences in the impact of the global trade
in silver on Spain, Japan and China.
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Ch. 15,
Part III
689 - 697
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16
722 - 737
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Ch. 16
Part II
737 – 744
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Review
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UNIT 4 Test
Chapters 14 - 16
Cultural
Transformations
(Changes)
Religion and
science
15. What were the causes and impact of the fur trade in North America?
16. What was the impact of European contact with Native Americans due to
the fur trade that developed?
17. What were similarities and differences between the North American and
Siberian fur trades?
18. List 3 features of the slave trade BEFORE European involved in the 1500.
19. List 3 features of the NEW European slave trade AFTER the 1500.
20. Explain how Europeans learned about the profit of sugar plantations.
21. What other sources of labor were used by Europeans BEFORE African
slaves.
22. What changes occurred in the slave trade between 1500 and 1850s?
23. How were African slaves obtained? Where did many end up going?
24. How did the Atlantic slave trade impact different African societies? (Book
gives you economic, social and political impacts.
25. Analyze (talk about how and why) differences between the involvement of
the Kingdoms of Benin and Dahomey in the African slave trade.
1. In what ways did the Protestant Reformation transform European society,
culture and politics?
2. How was European imperial expansion related to the spread of
Christianity?
3. What kinds of people were not drawn to the Christian faith?
4. How did Europeans spread Christianity in Spanish America?
5. Why were missionary efforts to spread Christianity so much less successful
in China than in Spanish America?
6. How did China’s views on Christianity change from its initial arrival to the
18th century?
7. Analyze the spread of Islam between 1450 and 1750. Where? How? Why?
8. Why did Islamic reform movements emerge? Name a specific one.
9. What is Neo-Confucianism and why did the Ming and Qing dynasties adopt
it as the foundation of the Chinese government and society?
10. How did religious beliefs change in India at this time?
11. Scientific Revolution – define
12. What were the impacts of the Scientific Revolution?
13. Why did the Scientific Revolution occur in Europe rather than in China or
the Islamic world?
14. How did medieval views of the earth change after the Scientific Revolution?
15. Name contributors of the Scientific Revolution and their published works.
16. What was the response of the Catholic Church towards the Scientific
Revolution?
17. In what ways did the Enlightenment challenge older patterns of European
thinking? List specific works and their author.
18. How were European Scientific Revolution ideas accepted in China?
19. In what ways was European science received in the major civilizations of
Asia in the early modern era?