DEBATING THE DOCUMENTS: World History

Each reproducible unit contains groups of documents with differing views, six worksheets (two interpretive, one comparative for each pair), a background essay, a teacher introduction, student directions, two DBQs with suggestions for writing, and a DBQ scoring guide. Each set comes with a guide with reproducible student pages that contains three whole-class debates.

The ANCIENT WORLD–EXPLORATION subset includes:

• FROM HUNTER-GATHERERS TO FARMERS AND HERDERS
• RIVERS AND CIVILIZATION: What’s the Link?
• FROM GOD-KINGS TO WORLD RELIGIONS
• BUDDHA’S TRAVELS: A Case of East Asian Cultural Diffusion
• SLAVES, PEASANTS, AND SCRIBES IN THE ANCIENT WORLD
• HOW DEMOCRATIC WERE THE ANCIENT GREEKS?
• ISLAM’S IMPACT
• INDUSTRIAL INNOVATION IN CHINA
• EUROPE’S TEACHERS, EUROPE’S LEARNERS
• TRADE AND THE PLAGUE: The Perils of Interaction
• WOMEN’S LIVES BEFORE THE MODERN ERA
• EUROPEAN FEUDALISM AND THE CHINESE IMPERIAL ORDER
• THE INDIAN OCEAN: A Trading Network in Transition
• THE IMPACT OF THE PRINTING PRESS IN CHINA AND EUROPE
• TWO WORLDS COLLIDE: Europe’s Encounter with the Americas

The SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION–GLOBALIZATION includes:

• WHAT WAS REVOLUTIONARY ABOUT THE SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION?
• AFRICA’S SLAVES: The Transatlantic and East African Slave Trades
• “LEVIATHAN”: Centralized States in the Early Modern Era
• INDUSTRIALISM: Why Was England First?
• WOMEN AND THE ENLIGHTENMENT
• POLITICAL REVOLUTION: What Was It Good For?
• RESPONSE TO THE WEST: China, India, and Japan
• SCIENCE AND FAITH IN THE 19TH CENTURY
• EUROPE’S SCRAMBLE FOR AFRICA: Why Did They Do It?
• SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY: The Threat and the Promise
• THE TOTALITARIAN TEMPTATION
• IS POPULATION GROWTH A CRISIS?
• WOMEN IN THE MODERN WORLD
• DECOLONIZATION: Dream and Reality
• GLOBALIZATION: Yesterday and Today