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  • World History
    • World History Honors
    • Unit 1: (1200-1450) - State Building in the Global Tapestry
    • Unit 2: (1200-1450) - Networks of Exchange
    • Unit 3: (1450-1750) - Land-Based Empires
    • Unit 4: (1450-1750) - Sea of Exploration
    • Unit 5: (1750-1900) - Revolutions
    • Unit 6: (1750-1900) - Imperial Migration
    • Unit 7: (1900-present) - Global Conflicts
    • Unit 8: (1900-present) - Cold War & Decolonization
    • Unit 9: (1900-present) - Globalization
  • Civic Literacy
    • Governmental Figures
    • Unit 0 - Civics and Citizenship
    • Unit 1 - Legistlative Branch
    • Unit 2 - Executive Branch
    • Unit 3 - Judicial Branch
    • Unit 4 - Liberty & Justice for All
    • Unit 5 - State and Local Government
    • Unit 6 - Seeds of Rebellion
    • Unit 7 - The Young Republic
  • AP
    • AP World History >
      • Unit 1: (1200-1450) - State Building in the Global Tapestry
      • Unit 2: (1200-1450) - Networks of Exchange
      • Unit 3: (1450-1750) - Land-Based Empires
      • Unit 4: (1450-1750) - Transoceanic Interconnections
      • Unit 5: (1750-1900) - Revolutions
      • Unit 6: (1750-1900) - Imperial Migration
      • Unit 7: (1900-present) - Global Conflicts
      • Unit 8: (1900-present) - Cold War & Decolonization
      • Unit 9: (1900-present) - Globalization
    • AP European History >
      • Unit I - The Rise of Europe
      • Unit II - Rebirth and Exploration
      • Unit III - A Fractured Faith
      • Unit IV - A Question of Sovereignty
      • Unit V - A Shifting Society
      • Unit VI - Revolution
      • Unit VII - Political Turmoil
      • Unit VIII - Rise of the Nation-State
      • Unit IX - Forging the Modern Era
      • Unit X - Imperialism and the Great War
      • Unit XI - Global Conflicts
      • Unit XII - The Long Peace
  • American History
    • American History Honors >
      • Map Test
    • Unit 0: (1763 - 1800) - Revolutionary America
    • Unit 1: (1800 - 1848) - Expansion & Reform
    • Unit 2: (1824 - 1861) - A Nation Divided
    • Unit 3: (1861 - 1877) - Civil War & Rebirth
    • Unit 4: (1865 - 1898) - Gilded Dreams
    • Unit 5: (1890 - 1920) - The American Ascent
    • Unit 6: (1920 - 1945) - Roaring to Warring
    • Unit 7: (1945 - 1963) - Peace & Paranoia
    • Unit 8: (1955 - 1980) - The Fight for Justice
    • Unit 9: (1980-present) - Modern America
  • Western Civilization
    • Unit I: (prehistory-330BC) - Origins
    • Unit II (2700 - 323B.C.) - Classical Antiquity
    • Unit III (509BC - 476) - The Dream that was Rome
    • Unit IV (476 - 1216) - The Age of Faith
    • Unit V (1095 - 1492) - Crossroads of Catastrophe
    • Unit VI (1350 - 1620) - Into the Unknown
    • Unit VII (1517 - 1776) - Crisis of Faith
    • Unit VIII (1756 - 1815) - Revolution!
    • Unit IX (1769-1914) - Engineering of Empires
    • Unit X (1914 - 1920) - The Great War
    • Unit XI (1920 - 1945) - Twilight of Empires: A World at War
    • Unit XII (1945 - present) - Cold War & Globalization
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Networks of Exchange

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Economic activity along existing trade routes increase  in volume and scope thanks to the rise of powerful states and empires that produce new trading cities that emerge across Africa and Eurasia.
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NEED TO KNOW
  • Silk Roads
  • caravans
  • Indian Ocean trade
  • monsoons
  • Trans-Saharan trade 
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2.1 SILK, SEA & SAND: TRADE ROUTES

Thanks to the establishment of stable empires throughout Afro-Eurasia, major trade routes flourish bringing more than just goods and economic property to the regions connected by these trade routes.
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NEED TO KNOW​
  • Genghis Khan​
  • Golden Horde
  • Sack of Baghdad
  • Kublai Khan
  • Yuan Dynasty
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2.2 THE MONGOL EMPIRE

The Mongols would play a vital part in connecting Eurasian trade, culture, technology and centralized authority by expanding their empire into the largest continuous land empire in history.
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  • syncretism
  • Swahili 
  • Marco Polo
  • Ibn Battuta
  • technological effects
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2.3 CULTURAL CONSEQUENCES OF CONNECTIVITY

As trade routes connected large states with each other throughout AfroEurasia, more than just trade goods were being exchanged.  Along these routes, cultural diffusion was happening resulting in syncretism of religions, languages, cultures, & new technology.
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  • Champa rice
  • yams/bananas/sugar
  • trade routes
  • Black Death
  • effects of the Black Death
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2.4 ENVIRONMENTAL CONSEQUENCES OF CONNECTIVITY

The environment affects human societies, and as populations grow and change, they in turn affect their environments. The cultural diffusion that affected the world during the 1200-1450s also occurred environmentally leading to positive and negative consequences.
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  • World History
    • World History Honors
    • Unit 1: (1200-1450) - State Building in the Global Tapestry
    • Unit 2: (1200-1450) - Networks of Exchange
    • Unit 3: (1450-1750) - Land-Based Empires
    • Unit 4: (1450-1750) - Sea of Exploration
    • Unit 5: (1750-1900) - Revolutions
    • Unit 6: (1750-1900) - Imperial Migration
    • Unit 7: (1900-present) - Global Conflicts
    • Unit 8: (1900-present) - Cold War & Decolonization
    • Unit 9: (1900-present) - Globalization
  • Civic Literacy
    • Governmental Figures
    • Unit 0 - Civics and Citizenship
    • Unit 1 - Legistlative Branch
    • Unit 2 - Executive Branch
    • Unit 3 - Judicial Branch
    • Unit 4 - Liberty & Justice for All
    • Unit 5 - State and Local Government
    • Unit 6 - Seeds of Rebellion
    • Unit 7 - The Young Republic
  • AP
    • AP World History >
      • Unit 1: (1200-1450) - State Building in the Global Tapestry
      • Unit 2: (1200-1450) - Networks of Exchange
      • Unit 3: (1450-1750) - Land-Based Empires
      • Unit 4: (1450-1750) - Transoceanic Interconnections
      • Unit 5: (1750-1900) - Revolutions
      • Unit 6: (1750-1900) - Imperial Migration
      • Unit 7: (1900-present) - Global Conflicts
      • Unit 8: (1900-present) - Cold War & Decolonization
      • Unit 9: (1900-present) - Globalization
    • AP European History >
      • Unit I - The Rise of Europe
      • Unit II - Rebirth and Exploration
      • Unit III - A Fractured Faith
      • Unit IV - A Question of Sovereignty
      • Unit V - A Shifting Society
      • Unit VI - Revolution
      • Unit VII - Political Turmoil
      • Unit VIII - Rise of the Nation-State
      • Unit IX - Forging the Modern Era
      • Unit X - Imperialism and the Great War
      • Unit XI - Global Conflicts
      • Unit XII - The Long Peace
  • American History
    • American History Honors >
      • Map Test
    • Unit 0: (1763 - 1800) - Revolutionary America
    • Unit 1: (1800 - 1848) - Expansion & Reform
    • Unit 2: (1824 - 1861) - A Nation Divided
    • Unit 3: (1861 - 1877) - Civil War & Rebirth
    • Unit 4: (1865 - 1898) - Gilded Dreams
    • Unit 5: (1890 - 1920) - The American Ascent
    • Unit 6: (1920 - 1945) - Roaring to Warring
    • Unit 7: (1945 - 1963) - Peace & Paranoia
    • Unit 8: (1955 - 1980) - The Fight for Justice
    • Unit 9: (1980-present) - Modern America
  • Western Civilization
    • Unit I: (prehistory-330BC) - Origins
    • Unit II (2700 - 323B.C.) - Classical Antiquity
    • Unit III (509BC - 476) - The Dream that was Rome
    • Unit IV (476 - 1216) - The Age of Faith
    • Unit V (1095 - 1492) - Crossroads of Catastrophe
    • Unit VI (1350 - 1620) - Into the Unknown
    • Unit VII (1517 - 1776) - Crisis of Faith
    • Unit VIII (1756 - 1815) - Revolution!
    • Unit IX (1769-1914) - Engineering of Empires
    • Unit X (1914 - 1920) - The Great War
    • Unit XI (1920 - 1945) - Twilight of Empires: A World at War
    • Unit XII (1945 - present) - Cold War & Globalization