DEBATING THE DOCUMENTS: World History

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Students think like historians as they analyze primary sources, write short essays for document-based questions, and take part in a culminating debate.

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
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Copyright

2008–09

Size

8½" x 11"

Publisher

MindSparks

Grade

6–12

Extension

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