1450 to 1914 Rise of the West
Read Robert Marks chp. 3, 4 and 5 in The Origins of the Modern World; Alfred Crosby (resources matter most, I will explain Crosby and the Columbian Exchange in class) vs. Felipe Fernandez-Armesto and Peter Watson (two handouts that look at ideas and ideology in the West) vs Kennedy and McNeill (see Fareed Zakaria, The Post-American World , p. 54-65 for an overview of the “structural” argument of McNeill and Kennedy.
For an on-line version of Zakaria click here please).
RIISS
Resources
Ideas/Ideology
Social/Structural
= the major types of arguments re: the rise of the West we will be looking at. THERE ARE THREE MAJOR SCHOOLS OF THOUGHT you need to know for the test!!!
To take this to another level, add the idea of a power vacuum (click here for a related piece of the puzzle), and think about Zheng He : What happen in China in 1433 ?
Test
Multiple-choice (10 total for 30pts part I)/essay (70 pts)/
Essay: Explain the RANGE of factors that led to the rise of the West up to 1850.
Rise of the West Test Rubric. Also, is an essay one student wrote on the test, I had him type it up for the blog (click here).
Back to first trimester page, click here
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