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Practice Packet Instructions and Grade

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Instructions

1. Read and follow the directions on each individual page.
2. Complete packet from front to back.
3. Use your textbook to complete.

Grade

Practice Packets are due completed by the end of each unit (before the test). Each Packet has been designed to provide each student with standards based practice of course content and skills. Because the packets are practice, they will be graded by completion of each standard set’s practice. See rubric below for details.

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Objectives

1. Introduce student to content and practice course skills.
2. Practice vocabulary skills.
3. Practice reading comprehension and analysis.
4. Practice historical inquiry and evaluative skills.
5. (Teacher only) Preview and track student skills before and alongside summative (test and quiz) assessments.

Chapter 8: China and the World: East Asian Connections

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Pg 365 - 393

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Unit Vocabulary

Directions: Use your textbook (pages 365 - 393) to help find definitions for each of the vocabulary words. Write the definition next to each vocab word. Use the page numbers next to each word to help find your definition.

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Unit Vocabulary

Directions: Use your textbook (pages 365 - 393) to help find definitions for each of the vocabulary words. Write the definition next to each vocab word. Use the page numbers next to each word to help find your definition.

Reading Questions

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Directions: Use pages 365 - 393 in your World History Textbook to answer the following questions. Write your answer for each question on a seperate sheet of paper.

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1. Why are the centuries of the Tang and Song dynasties in China sometimes referred to as a "golden age"?

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2. In what ways did women's lives change during the Tang and Song dynasties?

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3. How did the Chinese and their nomadic neighbors to the north view each other?

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4. What assumptions underlay the tribute system?

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5. How did the tribute system in practice differ from the ideal Chinese understanding of its operation?

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6. In what ways did China and the nomads influence each other?

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7. In what ways did China have an influence in Korea, Vietnam, and Japan? In what ways was that influence resisted?

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8. In what different ways did Japanese and Korean women experience the pressures of Confucian orthodoxy?

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9. In what ways did China participate in the world of Eurasian commerce and exchange, and with what outcomes?

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10. What facilitated the rooting of Buddhism within China?

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11. What were the major sources of opposition to Buddhism within China?

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12. How can you explain the changing fortunes of Buddhism in China?

KOREA - influenced by Political and Cultural ideals such as Chinese court and bureaucracy, culture influnce of language, art, science, technology. �Resistance in the form of maintaining their own nations/kingdoms, Confucianism, developed their own alphabet and writing

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Reading Questions

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13. How did China influence the world of the third-wave era? How was China itself transformed by its encounters with a wider world?

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14. How might China's posture in the world during the Tang and song dynasty era compare to its emerging role in global affairs in the 21st century?

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15. Looking Back: In what ways did Tang and Song dynasty China resemble the earlier Han dynasty period, and in what ways had China changed?

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East Asia

Directions: Take a close look at everything you’ve learned about East Asia and this time period. Summarize the information using SPICE to help organize your thoughts. Each category should have at least 3 points of information.

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Chapter 9: The Worlds of Islam: Afro-Eurasian Connections

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Pg 411 - 442

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Unit Vocabulary

Directions: Use your textbook (pages 411 - 442) to help find definitions for each of the vocabulary words. Write the definition next to each vocab word. Use the page numbers next to each word to help find your definition.

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Unit Vocabulary

Directions: Use your textbook (pages 411 - 442) to help find definitions for each of the vocabulary words. Write the definition next to each vocab word. Use the page numbers next to each word to help find your definition.

Reading Questions

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Directions: Use pages 411 - 442 in your World History Textbook to answer the following questions. Write your answer for each question on a seperate sheet of paper.

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1. In what ways did the early history of Islam reflect is Arabian origins?

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2. What did the Quran expect from those who followed its teachings?

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3. How was Arabia transformed by the rise of Islam?

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4. why were Arabs able to construct such a huge empire so quickly?

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5. What accounts for the widespread conversion to Islam?

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6. What is the differences between Sunni and Shia Islam?

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7. In what ways were Sufi Muslims critical of mainstream Islam?

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8. How did the rise of Islam change the lives of women?

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9. What similarities and differences can you identify in the spread of Islam to India, Anatolia, West Africa, and Spain?

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10. In what ways was Anatolia changed by its incorporation into the Islamic world?

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11. What makes it possible to speak of the Islamic world as a distinct and coherent civilization?

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12. In what ways was the world of Islam and "cosmopolitan civilization"?

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13. How might you account for the immense religious and political/military success of Islam in its early centuries?

Pros - ban female infanticide, gave women right to own property, granted them inheritance, defined marriage

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Cons - Quran will be interpreted differently by different cultures; IN ARABIA women sphere totally separate from men, wear some coverings.

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14. In what ways might Islamic civilization be described as cosmopolitan, international, or global?

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15. "Islam was simultaneously a single world of shared meaning and interaction and a series of separate, distinct, and conflicting communities." What evidence could you provide to support both sides of this argument?

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16. What changes did Islamic expansion generate in those societies that encountered it, and how was Islam itself transformed by those encounters?

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17. Looking Back: what distinguished the early centuries of Islamic history from a similar phase in the history of Christianity and Buddhism?

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Worlds of Islam

Directions: Take a close look at everything you’ve learned about the Worlds of Islam and this time period. Summarize the information using SPICE to help organize your thoughts. Each category should have at least 3 points of information.

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Chapter 10: The Worlds of Christendom: Contraction, Expansion, and Division

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Pg 463 - 497

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Unit Vocabulary

Directions: Use your textbook (pages 463 - 497) to help find definitions for each of the vocabulary words. Write the definition next to each vocab word. Use the page numbers next to each word to help find your definition.

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Unit Vocabulary

Directions: Use your textbook (pages 463 - 497) to help find definitions for each of the vocabulary words. Write the definition next to each vocab word. Use the page numbers next to each word to help find your definition.

Reading Questions

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Directions: Use pages 463 - 497 in your World History Textbook to answer the following questions. Write your answer for each question on a seperate sheet of paper.

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1. What variations in the experience of African and Asian Christian communities can you identify?

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2. In what respects did Byzantium continue the patterns of the classical Roman Empire? In what ways did it diverge from those patterns?

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3. How did Eastern Orthodox Christianity differ from Roman Catholicism?

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4. In what ways was the Byzantine Empire linked to a wider world?

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5. How did links to Byzantium transform the new civilization of Kievan Rus?

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6. What replaced the Roman order in Western Europe?

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7. In what ways was European civilization changing after 1000 C.E.?

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8. What was the impact of the Crusades in world history?

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9. In what ways did borrowing from abroad shape European civilization after 1000 C.E.?

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10. Why was Europe unable to achieve the kind of political unity that china experienced?

What impact did this have on the subsequent history of Europe?

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11. In what different ways did classical Greek philosophy and science have an impact in the West, in Byzantium, and in the Islamic world?

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12. What accounts for the different historical trajectories of the Byzantine and West European expressions of Christendom?

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13. How did Byzantium and Western Europe interact with each other and with the larger world of the third-wave era?

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14. In what respects was the civilization of the Latin West distinctive and unique, and in what ways was it broadly comparable to other third-wave civilizations?

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15. Looking Back: how does the evolution of the Christian world in the third-wave era compare with that of Tang and Song dynasty China and of the Islamic world?

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Worlds of Christendom

Directions: Take a close look at everything you’ve learned about the Worlds of Christendom and this time period. Summarize the information using SPICE to help organize your thoughts. Each category should have at least 3 points of information.

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Notes

An area to keep notes. Remember, if you miss any notes they are available on the course website.

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*A deepening and widening of __________ of __________ interaction within and across regions contributed to cultural, technological, and biological __________ within and between various societies.�

I. Improved __________ technologies and __________ practices led to an increased volume of __________ and expanded the geographical range of existing and newly active trade networks.

A. Existing trade routes— including the Silk Roads, the Mediterranean Sea, the Trans-Saharan routes, and the Indian Ocean basin— __________ and promoted the __________ of powerful new trading __________.�

B. Communication and __________ networks developed in the __________.�

C. The growth of interregional trade in __________ goods was encouraged by significant __________ in previously existing transportation and commercial technologies— including the __________, compass use, the __________, and larger ship designs in sea travel—and new forms of __________ and the development of __________ economies.

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Notes

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D. Commercial growth was also facilitated by state practices, including the Inca __________ system; trading organizations, such as the Hanseatic League; and state-sponsored commercial infrastructures, such as the Grand __________ in China.�

E. The __________ of __________ — including China, the Byzantine Empire, various Muslim states, and the Mongols— facilitated Afro–Eurasian __________ and communication as new peoples were __________ into their __________ economies and trade networks.�

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II. The __________ of peoples caused __________ and __________ effects.�

A. The expansion and intensification of long-distance trade routes often depended on environmental knowledge and technological __________ to the __________.�

B. Some __________ had a significant environmental impact, including migration of __________ -speaking peoples who facilitated transmission of __________ technologies and __________ techniques in Sub-Saharan __________, as well as the maritime migrations of the __________ peoples who cultivated transplanted __________ and domesticated __________ as they moved to new __________.��

C. Some migrations and commercial contacts led to the __________ of __________ throughout a new __________ or the emergence of new languages.

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Notes

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III. Cross-cultural exchanges were __________ by the intensification of existing, or the creation of new, __________ of __________ and __________.�

A. Islam, based on the revelations of the prophet __________, developed in the __________ Peninsula. The beliefs and practices of Islam reflected interactions among __________, __________, and __________ with the local Arabian peoples. Muslim rule expanded to many parts of Afro–Eurasia due to __________ expansion, and Islam subsequently __________ through the activities of __________, missionaries, and Sufis.�

B. In key places along important trade routes, __________ set up __________ communities where they introduced their own cultural __________ into the indigenous culture.�

C. As exchange networks intensified, an __________ number of __________ within Afro–Eurasia __________ about their travels.�

D. Increased cross-cultural interactions resulted in the __________ of __________, __________, and __________ traditions, as well as __________ and __________ innovations.�

IV. There was continued __________ of crops and __________, including epidemic diseases like the __________ plague along trade routes.

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Primary Source Workshop

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Directions: Fill in the primary source cards for each source included in this workshop. Score your analysis using the rubric below.

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The Chronicle of the Direct Descent of Gods and Sovereigns

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Advice to a Young Samurai � pg 402

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The Imagawa Letter � pg 402-403

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Source Summary

Directions: Write a summary that describes how these sources present 2 different POV (points-of-view) that existed during this time period. Make sure to reference the score rubric to help your answer.

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Primary Source Workshop

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Directions: Fill in the primary source cards for each source included in this workshop. Score your analysis using the rubric below.

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A Banquet with the Emperor

pg 405

Visual Source 8.1

Visual Source 8.2

At Table with the Empress � pg 406

Visual Source 8.3

A Literary Gathering � pg 407

Visual Source 8.4

An Elite Night Party � pg 408

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Title: A literary gathering

Title: An elite night party

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Source Summary

Directions: Write a summary that describes how these sources present SIMILAR POV (points-of-view) that existed during this time period. Make sure to reference the score rubric to help your answer.