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Chapter 6: the World of Islam, 600-1500 Unit 2 Resources SSUGGESTEDUGGESTED PPACINGACING CCHARTHART UnitU - chart 2 head Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8 Chapter 9 Chapter 10 Chapter 11 Unit 2 (1blue day) (6 days) (4 days) (7 days) (6 days) (6 days) (4 days) (1 day) DayU - chart 1 head redDay 1 Day 1 Day 1 Day 1 Day 1 Day 1 Day 1 Introductionw/ p4 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 7 Chapter 9 Chapter 10 Chapter 11 Wrap-Up/ U - chart text Intro, Intro, Intro, Intro, Intro, Intro, Projects U - chart head redSection 1 Section 1 Section 1 Section 1 Section 1 Section 1 Unit 2 U - chart text Day 2 Day 2 Day 2 Day 2 Day 2 Day 2 Assessment Section 2 Section 2 Section 2 Section 2 Section 2 Section 2 Day 3 Day 3 Day 3 Day 3 Day 3 Day 3 Section 3 Section 3 Section 3 Section 3 Section 3 Section 3 Day 4 Day 4 Day 4 Day 4 Day 4 Day 4 Section 4 Chapter 7 Section 4 Section 4 Section 4 Chapter 11 Day 5 Review/ Day 5 Day 5 Day 5 Review/ Chapter 6 Assessment Section 5 Chapter 9 Chapter 10 Assessment Review Day 6 Review Review Day 6 Chapter 8 Day 6 Day 6 Chapter 6 Review Chapter 9 Chapter 10 Assessment Day 7 Assessment Assessment Chapter 8 Assessment Use the following tools to easily assess student learning in a variety of ways: www.tx.wh.glencoe.com • Performance Assessment Activities • www.tx.wh.glencoe.com and Rubrics • Interactive Tutor Self-Assessment • Chapter Tests CD-ROM • Section Quizzes • MindJogger Videoquiz • Standardized Test Practice Workbook • ExamView® Pro Testmaker CD-ROM • SAT I/II Test Practice www.tx.wh.glencoe.com TEACHING TRANSPARENCIES • www.tx.wh.glencoe.com Glencoe World History Unit Time Line Transparency 2 Cause-and-Effect Transparency 2 Copyright © by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. 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King Shahrayar marries a different woman each night and puts her One of the key factors that contributed to trade route stretched from Venice, Italy to what to death the next morning. To delay her death, one wife, Princess Shahrazad the growth of cities was the development of is now Beijing, China. The Silk Road passed (sometimes spelled Scheherazade), tells the king a story each night but with- DIRECTIONS: Matching Match each item in Column A with the items in Column B. more advanced farming tools and techniques. through ports on the Mediterranean Sea and holds the ending until the following day. The tales continue for a thousand These tools and techniques enabled fewer along roads throughout Europe, the Middle Write the correct letters in the blanks. (4 points each) and one nights, a total of almost three years. By that time, King Shahrayar has farmers to grow greater amounts of food, thus East, and Asia. The Silk Road was used for Column A Column B fallen in love with Princess Shahrazad and decides not to have her killed. freeing other people to pursue different travel and trade as early as 200 B.C. However, careers. Once large cities had begun to grow, the collapse of the Roman Empire and China’s 1. journey of Muhammad and his followers to Madinah A. Axum The Thousand and One Nights is based on the Hazar Afsanah, an ancient Persian collection of stories likely written by many different people. The book there were also other significant factors that Han dynasty led to a decline in trade along the contributed to the success and development of Silk Road. 2. emerged as an independent trading state that combined B. vassalage was translated into Arabic around 850 B.C. and renamed The Thousand and Arab and African cultures cities. In the 1300s, the Silk Road again became a C. Hopewell One Nights. One such factor was “international” trade, a major trading route, habituated by traders in 3. elected as Ghengis Khan D. Temujin practice whereby people began to exchange camel convoys and on ships. The average goods with other groups or cities that were Egyptian who wanted to (and could afford to) 4. the heart of feudalism GUIDED READING As you read “The Story of the Merchant and the Demon” and “The E. Mesoamerica Fisherman and the Jinnee,” think about what lesson each story teaches. outside of their own societal or cultural purchase tea from China did not actually 5. created the first French parliament F. Inquisition groups. International trade brought about travel the Silk Road in order to acquire the tea. changes in local economies. Businesses now Instead, that Egyptian would buy the tea from 6. attempted to reconcile Aristotle’s teachings with the G. Aztecs had the additional task of competing with a trading company, which was comprised of doctrines of Christianity businesses that were outside the local econ- many individual traders, each of whom was H. Hijrah B 7. court created by the Church to find and try heretics omy. Businesses also began to have additional responsible for a different segment of the Silk I. Phillip IV sources of revenue—the income or goods they Road. As the demand for foreign products 8. peoples of the Ohio River valley, who extended their culture earned through trading with people who lived increased throughout Europe, North Africa, along the Mississippi River J. Saint Thomas from The Thousand and One Nights outside their own societal or cultural groups. and Asia, trading along the Silk Road also Aquinas Businesses that produced products that were increased, and the trading companies pros- 9. established their capital at Tenochtitlán, on an island in the “The Story of the Merchant sat by the spring, pulled out from the in great demand from foreign markets could pered. middle of Lake Texacoco saddlebag some loaves of bread and a succeed even when their local economies faced and the Demon” The Banking System As international trade 10. areas of Mexico and Central America that were civilized handful of dates, and began to eat, throw- hard times. ing the date pits right and left until he had continued to flourish, banking firms also before the Spaniards arrived The Silk Road One important trade route that expanded. Bank-like operations had been had enough. Then he got up, performed t is said, O wise and happy King, that existed long ago was the Silk Road. This major around since the Middle Ages, when people Ionce there was a prosperous merchant his ablutions, and performed his prayers. DIRECTIONS: Multiple Choice Choose the item that best completes each sentence who had abundant wealth and investments But hardly had he finished when he saw or answers each question. Write the letter of the item in the blank to the left of the and commitments in every country. He had an old demon, with sword in hand, stand- sentence. (4 points each) many women and children and kept many ing with his feet on the ground and his KAZAKHSTAN China– servants and slaves. One day, having head in the clouds. The demon approached 11. It was through the Muslim world that Europeans RUSSIA MONGOLIA tea, silk, resolved to visit another country, he took until he stood before him and screamed, Ur mqi porcelain A. were able to obtain products from China and Egypt. provisions, filling his saddlebag with loaves saying, “Get up, so that I may kill you with B. recovered the works of Aristotle and other Greek philosophers. of bread and with dates, mounted his this sword, just as you have killed my son.” Dunhuang Yumen C. developed an appreciation for painting and sculpture. When the merchant saw and heard the horse, and set out on his journey. For many TURKEY D. discovered the lost libraries of Alexandria and Persia. days and nights, he journeyed under God’s demon, he was terrified and awestricken. Lanzhou care until he reached his destination. When He asked, “Master, for what crime do you Egypt– Xi’an Copyright © by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
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