Implementation Plan for AP World History Chapter Review Podcasts
Series Title: APWH Traditions and Encounters Chapter Reviews
Series Description: This is a series of podcasts that will give a basic overview of each chapter of the APWH textbook, Traditions and Encounters (Bentley, 2006). Each podcast will cover the big picture topics of the chapter including major themes, time periods and significant people and places.
Format: These podcasts will be hosted on www.padomatic.com and then ultimately on iTunes.
Audience: Primary audience is 10th grade AP world history students who are using Traditions and Encounters in their course work. Secondary users include, those interested in general world history, students preparing for CST exams, parents wanting to help their kids, etc.
There are 40 chapters in the Traditions and Encounters text which will serve as the foundation for this podcast series. After those, future topics could include: world religion development and spread, changing trade patterns, AP test taking strategies and others.
Marketing Plan: Since the audience for this podcast is my students, I can easily direct them to either podbean or iTunes. Given the number of students with iPods, I think most will choose the iTunes option. Also, our district has an online grade/assignment page (www.edline.net), so I could potentially host the podcasts there.
Episodes: Some potential episode outlines build on the following content guidelines:
Episode 25: CHAPTER 25 REVIEW: New Worlds: The Americas and Oceania
Spanish in the New World
How’d they get there?
Why Spanish and not Portuguese?
Cortez in Mexico
Contact with Aztecs
Journey to Tenochtitlan
Technological advantage
Pizarro in Peru
Technological advantage
Easy destruction
Colonial Societies of the New World
Audiencias
Haciendas
Small pox and natives
Social Classes
Peninsulares, criollos, mestizos, mulattoes, zambos
Trade
Silver from Potosi
Sugar from Brazil and Caribbean
Spanish Galleons
Firs and timber from North America
Europeans in Pacific
Dutch first recorded to Australia
Captain Cook and Hawaii
English and Australia
European trade networks
Episode 26: CHAPTER 26 REVIEW: Africa and the Atlantic World
African Societies
Rise of Songhay: Sunni Ali
Location, trade, religion, downfall
Kingdom of Kongo: King Afonso I
Relationship with Portuguese
Syncretic Religion: Antonian Movement/Dona Beatriz
Ndongo/Angola
Swahili City States
Location, trade, religion
Relationship with Portuguese
Decline
Triangle Trade
Goods moving from Europe to Africa (manufactured)
Africa to New World
Slave trade: Middle Passage
Justification for trade of slaves: historical precedent
How many, dangers of trip, etc.
End of slave trade
New World to Europe
Raw materials/cash crops
African Diaspora
Spreading and blending of various African cultures in New World
Slave colonies, revolts
Olaudah Equiano, Frederick Douglass
Episode 27: CHAPTER 27 REVIEW: Tradition and Change in East Asia
Foundation of Ming Dynasty
Hongwu, Yongle, Zheng He
Building projects
High Points
Dynastic Cycle downturn
Wanli
Earthquake
Manchu Rebellion
Qing Foundation
Nurhaci, Kangxi, Qianlong
Civil Service Exams
Patriarchal society
Population increase
Japan Unification
Review of Japanese Feudalism
Tokugawa Shogunate
Daimyo/Samurai
Catholics/Dutch
Chinese/Japanese Isolation
Cut selves off from Europe
Limit trade
Lack of Modernization
Episode 28: CHAPTER 28 REVIEW: The Islamic Empires
Foundations of Islamic Empires
Mughal: Babur, Akbar, Shah Jahan, Aurangzeb
Tolerance with Hindus
Decline
Safavid: Shah Ismail, Abbas the Great
Shiite empire
Fought Ottomans – Chaldiran
Move capital to Isfahan
Fight Portuguese, others
Ottoman: Osman Bey, Mehemed II, Suleiman
Take over from Mongols/Seljuk Turks
Mehemed II – conquer Constantinople, make Muslim
Suleiman – peak of dynasty
Commonalities of Empires
Co-existence with non-Muslims
Lack of technological advancement
Agriculture based, strong military… for a time
Put faith in emperor – some leaders good, some not so good
Fight for succession
Episode 29: CHAPTER 29 REVIEW: Revolutions and National States in the Atlantic World
Popular Sovereignty and Political Upheaval
Enlightenment and ideals
Popular sovereignty
Equality for all
Social contract
American Revolution
Declaration of Independence
Follows Locke’s theories
Colonists mad about lack of representation
French Revolution
Causes –short and long term
Course of war (Estates General, Dec. of Rights of Man, Great Fear, March on Versailles, Robespierre, National Razor, etc…)
Napoleon’s reign
Congress of Vienna
Other Revs.
Haiti
Other Latin American Revs
Women’s rights movements
Unification and state building
Italy: Cavour, Garibaldi
Germany: Bismarck
