Unit+3+1450+to+1750

1.  Questions of Periodization from 1450 to 1750 2. Changes in trade, technology, and global interactions 3. Knowledge of major empires and other political units and social systems 4. Gender and empire 5. Slave Systems and Slave trade 6. Demographic and environmental changes 7. Cultural and Intellectual developments 8. Diverse interpretations 1450 to 1750
 * Are there continuities and breaks between the chronological periods?
 * What are the causes of changes from the previous period and within this period?
 * What is the evidence of the changes?
 * Briefly, discuss European exploration (Spain, Portugal, Columbus, Magellan, etc.)
 * How do greater global trade interactions impact world political structure?
 * How does changing technology alter point of views of the “outside” world?
 * What are the political characteristics of the period? Examine the Aztec, Inca, Ottoman, China, Portugal, Spain, Russia, France, Britain, England, Tokugawa, Mughal political structures.
 * What are the characteristics of African kingdoms in general? Focus on one - Kongo, Benin, Oyo, Dahomey, Ashanti, Songhay
 * Gender and empire (including the role of women in households and in politics)
 * What are the changes in the roles of women in households and politics?
 * What are the continuities?
 * Describe the various slave systems prior to 1450.
 * Explain how these systems change during this time period.
 * Analyze the role of trade within the Atlantic Slave system.
 * How does trade impact the demographic profile of the period?
 * Describe the new diseases, animals, crops, and their impact on various cultures.
 * Explain the Columbian Exchange.
 * How are the Scientific Revolution and Enlightenment tied to the Reformation?
 * Compare the global causes and impacts of cultural change.
 * Compare and contrast the major developments in the arts (e.g., Mughal and the Americas)
 * Creation of new religions like the Vodun, Zen, Sikhism and Protestantism
 * What are the debates about the timing and extent of European predominance in the world’s economy?
 * How does the world economic system of this period compare with patterns of inter-regional trade in the previous time period/unit?