AP World History Assignments

Chapter 15: The Resurgence of Empire in East Asia

Please review reading outline for chapters 15, 16, and 19: Word | Pdf

After reading chapter sections in chapters 15, 16, and 19, you will be able to:

Explain the importance of post-Classical Political Reconstruction in China and India

Identify the factors that contributed to economic productivity, demographic growth, new technologies, urbanization, increased trade in China, India, and Sub-Saharan Africa

Understand how trade routes contributed to the spread of Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, and Christianity to new lands via merchants, missionaries, and military forces

Contextualize changing social structures in India (caste system adaptation); Japan (feudalism); China (foot binding adn patriarchy); and southeast Asia
(selective barrowing and integration of Indian and Chinese customs)

Chapter 15: The Resurgence of Empire in East Asia

On provided maps under Downloads tab, locate the following places in chapters 15, 16, and 19 (see readings in Word or Pdf).:

1. Borders or relative sizes of Sui, Tang, and Song China

2. Hangzhou

3. Grand Canal

4. Chang Jiang (Yangtze) River

5. Japan

6. Yellow Sea

7. South China Sea

8, The Sind

9. Vijayanagar

10. Ceylon

11. Cambay

12. Calicut

13. Bay of Bengal

14. Indian Ocean

15. Axum

16. Malindi

17. Kilwa

18. Sofala

19. Funan

20. Angkor

21. Beijing

22.  Chang’an

23. Huang He/Yellow River

24. Korea

25. Vietnam

26. Sea of Japan

27. Harasha’s Kingdom

28. Chola

29. Sultanate of Delhi

30. Monsoon winds

31. Surat

32. Quilon

33. Arabian Sea

34. Madagascar

35. Mogadishu

36. Mombassa

37. Red Sea

38. Adulis

39.  Srivijaya

40. Sumatra

Chapter 15: The Resurgence of Empire in East Asia

As you read assigned sections (also in pdf) in Chapters 15, 16, and 19, take notes on the following terms and concepts: Who, what, where, why, when, how, so what?

1. Sui

2. Tang Taizong

3. Uighers

4. footbinding

5, gunpowder

6. Chan/Zen Buddhism

7. neo-Confucianism

8. Silla dynasty

9. Samurai

10. the sind

11. Chola

12. Ceylon

13. ddhows and junks

14. Sufis

15. Swahili states

16. Yang Jian


17. grand canal

18 equal field system

19. fast-ripening rice

20. porcelain

21. printing

22. money

23. Heian court

24. The Tale of Genjii

25. Harsha

26. Sultanate of Delhi

27.  Vijayanagar

28. monsoons

29. jati

30. Angkor Wat

31. Zimbabwe

 

Chapter 15: The Resurgence of Empire in East Asia

Word document or pdf document of map locations and Chapter 15, 16 and 19 terms; map of Sui and Tang empires and Silla kingdom 589-907 | blank map; map of Song dynasty 960-1279 | blank map; map of 13th century world systems