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• MR. TAYLOR – WORLD HISTORY

AFRICAN TRADE DOCUMENT-BASED QUESTION


• Beginning about 640, Islam created two North African empires. Merchants and traders spread Islam into both West and East Africa, where it influenced rulers.

• In parts of Africa, hunter-gatherers used up an area’s food supply and then moved on. In some Saharan villages, workers built houses of salt. The location of gold determined trade routes.

• Trade networks developed in Africa because different regions had items that other regions wanted. African city-states and empires that were able to control and tax such trade became wealthy and powerful.

Historical Context


Write a well-organized essay that includes an introduction, several paragraphs and a conclusion. Address all aspects of the task by accurately analyzing at least six documents. Support your response with relevant facts, examples and details. No outside research is necessary. Use Chapter 15 of your textbook and the documents. • What were some of the most important ways in which West Africa and

East Africa were affected by the growth in trade and commerce that took place between 800 and 1500? Consider: • sharing of religious ideas • exchange of cultures • growth of wealth

• How was the trade that occurred along Africa’s east coast similar or different from the trade that occurred in West Africa? Consider: • location of empires • trade items • trading partners

Task

• MR. TAYLOR – WORLD HISTORY Abraham Lincoln

Nov. 19, 1863

Sixth Hour

Gettysburg Address

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent,

a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men

are created equal.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or

any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great

battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final

resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is

altogether fitting and proper that we should do this (document #3).

But, in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate—we cannot consecrate—we

cannot hallow—this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here,

have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will

little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they

did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work

which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to

be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored

dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full

measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have

died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom— and

that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from

the earth.

HIGH SCHOOL

ESSAY FORMAT

Name information

Title (not “essay”)

No word art

Paragraphs

Indents

Double spaced

Textbook-style font

10-12 size font

1-inch margins

CITE DOCUMENTS

(usually parenthetically)

No bibliography needed on a DBQ

• MR. TAYLOR – WORLD HISTORY DOC1


Textbook Page 414


Textbook Page 423

Kilwa: Ideal location on ocean, one

monsoon season from

India, access to South African

gold.


Textbook Page 414

Great Zimbabwe:

Built to impress, like

Gothic churches,

Mecca


Swahili: Mix of

Arabic and Bantu

culture


HONORS: REQUIRED READING You MUST use this reading TWICE in your essay.

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