AP World Unit 3
“Distant Parts of the World are Connected with One Another”: The Causes of the First Global Economy
Using maps to teach the causes of the first global economy
“Countless Shops Filled with Diverse Goods”: Introducing the First Global Economy
What do paintings reveal about Portugal’s role in the First Global Economy?
“Death Came Suddenly to the Brave Troops and Valiant Cossacks”: Indigenous Resistance to Russian Expansion in Siberia
The Russian “conquest” of Siberia regularly encountered Siberian resistance
“Sables, Ermines, and Squirrel Skins”: Teaching the Fur Trade and Russia in World History
Teaching Russian history and the fur trade
Narrating the Global History of Lisbon
Lisbon is more than a European city; it’s also an African and Asian city
“These People Have the Cream of the Trade”: Gujaratis’ Continued Influence after the Arrival of Europeans
The Portuguese acknowledged the continued dominance of Gujarati traders
“A Very Pleasant Game”: Teaching the South Asian Cultural Mosaic with Snakes & Ladders
Teaching the diversity of South Asia through Snakes and Ladders
“We Decreed by Law”: Regulating the Slave Trade in Sixteenth-Century Kongo
Teaching how the rulers of Kongo regulated the slave trade
“Souls are neither Male nor Female”: Teaching Global Feminism in World History, c.1750 to Present
Discussion of teaching global feminism from 1750 to present
“A Single Black Woman”: African Women and the Portuguese Slave Trade in Sixteenth-Century West Africa
Teaching how African women influenced the slave trade in seventeenth-century West Africa
