Chapter 12 Guided Reading

A.P. World History
Guided Reading Chapter 12
“Mongol Eurasia and Its Aftermath – 1200 to 1500”

Terms
1. Steppes
2. Nomadism
3. Khan
4. Shamanism
5. Bubonic plague
6. “Great Pandemic”
7. Tax farming
8. ‘The Mongol Yoke”
9. Tsar
10. Teutonic Knights

Places
11. The Ukraine

Empires / Kingdoms
12. Il-khan Empire
13. Khanate of the Golden Horde

Individuals / Peoples
14. Genghis Khan (Temujin)
15. The Mongols
16. Great Khan Ogodei
17. Marco Polo
18. Batu
19. Timur of the Jagadai Khanate
20. Ibn Khaldun
21. Nasir al-Din
22. Omar Khayyam
23. Alexander Nevskii, Prince of Novgorod
24. The Ottomans
25. The Mamluks

Questions to Outline:

1. Mongol troops had a decided technological advantage over their enemies. Describe the components of this technological advantage and how they enabled the Mongols to conquer such an enormous territory.
2. The Mongols presided over a vast cultural exchange across geographic and religious borders. What were the important intellectual developments that Europe owed to Mongol influence?
3. Discuss the effects of Mongol domination on Russia with emphasis on how it shaped Russia’s history.
4. Describe in detail the knowledge and skills that the Mongol Empire spread across Eurasia. How did the Mongols integrate different cultural and intellectual traditions?
5. What tensions were there between the Mongols and the Muslims?

Friday's Test Study Guide

WHAP Chapter 10 and 11 Test Friday November 7th 2008

* 6^th century China

* trade between North China and South China and the Sui

*Buddhism in the Tang Empire as a political influence

*Chang’an’s importance

*Chinese maritime innovations included

*Rivals to the Tang Empire

*The Uigurs

*Tibetan government’s relations with monasteries (later years)

*Post Tang Empire states that emerged

* Song technological innovations

*Buddhists drew upon Indian and Tibetan folk practice and created a meditative practice known as

*Song civil service examinations

*As prosperity and population in Song China

*Women during the Song period

*In the early tenth century, Korea was united under which dynasty?

*Koreans and the Buddhist texts

*The Fujiwara family of Heian Japan .

*The gift of Champa to Song

*Classic period civilizations in Mesoamerica were built on an earlier civilization

*Mesoamericans and human sacrifice

*Chinampas “floating gardens”

*Teotihuacan

*the Mayan political state

*Maya monumental architecture

*The classic era Maya military forces

*Roles of Mesoamerican women

*Mayan contributions to mathematics

*The Toltecs’

*Aztec society

*The Aztecs challenges of feeding a growing population

*Aztec sacrificial victims

*The Anasazi, a desert people, led an enriched cultural life centered on

*The domestication of animals in the Andes

*The Moche and other Andean cultures

*Andean cities that precede the Incan civilization

Chapter 11 Notes Update

Hi Everyone!
Chapter 11 Notes will be handed out in class on Tuesday! No need to print anything. Remember to read chapter 11 before coming to class. Also, print out the Aztec Inca PowerPoint

Study Guide for Chapter 8-9 Test Thu/Fri

Crusades and their results
The Council of Clermont
Success of many cities in Italy and Flanders
Revival of Western Europe (1000-1200)
Kievan Russia and power
Vladimir I choosing Orthodox Christianity over Islam
Monasticism
Responsibilities of monasteries and convents
Challenges of the Roman Catholic Church after 10th century
Rise of the mounted warrior
Europe from 300 to 1200 as “feudal”
Byzantine cultural achievements
“plague of Justinian”
Byzantine Empire loss of territory
Byzantines – how different than west
Great Schism
Europe up to the year 1200
Sufism
Muslim women is not true?
The great vision of the shari’a
Muslim fighting the European Crusades
The ulama
Umayyad Spain
The caliphs standing army
Abbasid rule
The Umayyad dynasty
Arab armies
Muhammad’s revelations
Muslim religious practice
Why Muhammad conceived Islam
Mecca
Division of the Muslim

Chapter 10 Lecture

Islamic Empire Response

PROMPT:
How did neighboring empires shape the creation and growth of Islam both religiously, politically and economically?

REFER TO: Link

Islamic Empire Lecture