AP World Unit 4
“The Longest and Most Dreadful Voyage in the World”: Trans-Pacific Slavery and the Early Modern Pacific, c. 1500 - c.1800
Discussion of teaching the early modern trans-Pacific slave trade
“Little Rain During the Monsoon”: The Culture of the Little Ice Age in Europe and India
Discussion of teaching the Little Ice Age in India
“The Severe Cold in Syria”: The Little Ice Age and the Black Death in the Middle East
Discussion of teaching the intersection of the Little Ice Age and the Black Death in the Middle East
“Six Months of Winter”: New France, the Little Ice Age, and European Colonization of the Americas
Discussion of teaching the effects of the Little Ice Age on French colonization of North America
“Seven Snowfalls Until the Spring”: The Little Ice Age and Tokugawa Japan
Discussion of teaching the Little Ice Age in Japan
“The Earth Was Covered in Snow”: China and the Middle East in the Seventeenth Century
Discussion of teaching the Little Ice Age in the Chinese and Ottoman Empires
“The Great Mass of Snow and Hail”: Teaching the Little Ice Age, c.1300 - c.1800
Discussion of teaching the Little Ice Age in world history
“I Will Shoot the Lions”: Nur Jahan and Mughal Women
Discussion of teaching the influence of Nur Jahan
“When Any of You Intend to Divorce”: Teaching Continuity and Divorce in the Medieval Islamic Middle East, c.600 - c.1600
A discussion of teaching continutiy using examples of divorce in the Islamic Middle East
“The Disease Brought Great Desolation”: An Indigenous Account of the Great Dying
Teaching the Great Dying from an Indigenous American perspective
