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The AP World History Curriculum Framework dates the early modern erafrom c.1450 to c.1750, or from just before the European conquest of the Americas to the beginning of the Industrial Revolution. Our text (Strayer) use the same dates. What alternative event/date might be used for the beginning of this era?

A) An Early Modern Age Era? Find political, social, and economic causes that created and defined the early modern era

in this section.

B) A Late Agrarian Age? What political, social and economic factors refute the claim that the era c.1450-1750

begins the modern age?

Create documents to express your answers:

1) a written, short-hand outline of the section’s arguments

2) illustrative examples for section’s arguments

3) write an AP thesis statement arguing either for A) or B).

• Compare and contrast (similarities and differences) between the four major empires in the Islamic world of the 15th and 16th centuries

– Turkish “Sword of Islam” / Muslim Powerhouse / replace Arab-domination / heir to Abbasid and ROMAN empire / Sunni

– Turkish / Sufism into Shia / Schism with Ottoman

• Theme: Unity & Division

• Compare and contrast (similarities and differences) between the four major empires in the Islamic world of the 15th and 16th centuries

– heir to West African trans-Saharan trade routes / tax revenue / Urban Islam and Assimilated Beliefs / Meccan trips and Sonni Ali as “Caliph of the Land of the Blacks”

(Persian for Mongols) – Muslim minority Turkic rulers / political unity creates foundation for British colonial rule / South-Hindu / massive assimilation and cultural borrowing in “Peace” (compare to Ottoman with Christian minority)

• Compare and contrast of the four major empires in the Islamic world of the 15th and 16th centuries.

• Ottoman, Safavid, Mughal and Songhay

• Ottoman, Safavid and Mughal Empires

• Songhay did not

• Ottoman and Safavid – majority of subjects follow Islamic law

• Songhay and Mughal Empires ruled over areas where Islam was minority status

• Only Safavid imposed Shia version of Islam / official version of the state