Interregional Unity

Big Era Five
Patterns of Interregional Unity
300 - 1500 CE

Panorama Teaching Unit
Patterns of Interregional Unity
300 - 1500 CE

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Patterns of Interregional Unity

Table of Contents
Why this unit? 2
Unit objectives 2
Time and materials 2
Authors
2
Introductory activity 3
Lesson 1: Population and migration relatives? tT 7
Lesson 2: States and empires physically human?........................................................................................... 8
Lesson 3: Trade and transfers of products and technology
13
Lesson 4: Spread of religion
16
Lesson 5: Scientific and intellectual exchanges
21
Lesson 6: Transfer of crops and agriculture
26
(It created a demand for goods, increased the available labor force, caused urbanization, or brought more people into contact with one another.)
What kinds of places were involved in the transfer of goods, ideas, crops, and technologies across the hemisphere? (Permanent and seasonal markets, urban bazaars, royal courts, libraries, universities, caravansaries, monasteries, landowners’ estates, castles, route junctions, and river crossing-points.)
How did the introduction of specific technologies during Big Era Five affect societies that received them? What evidence might be found to show that an item was accepted, modified, or rejected?
To include the Americas in this activity, list items that were traded among indigenous American groups (Turquoise, mica, gold, silver, shell). Discuss as a class what might make it difficult for historians to create maps of trade networks in the Americas for Big Era Five? (Lack of written records, disappearance of some groups after 1500 CE, loss of languages, and incompleteness of archaeological
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