Hines’ History Spot

APWH – Chinese Dynasty song recital Mon. Ch4 of GSS journal is due Mon. Ch14 discussion questions are due on Mon too. Happy Weekend! All postings below.

World History – Complete the Ch13 study guide for Mon. Ch13 test is mon.

French II – none

THE CHAPTERS & QUESTIONS
PROLOGUE:
1. What is “Yali’s Question” and how does Diamond reword this question (which becomes the focal question of the entire book)? Briefly describe the various possible answers to the question.

CHAPTER 1: Up to the Starting Line: (Skip this chapter!)

CHAPTER 2: A Natural Experiment of History
2. Why did the Maori and the Moriori evolve differently?
3. How did population density affect economies, social complexity, and political organization?

CHAPTER 3: Collision at Cajamarca
4. Who are Atahualpa and Pizzarro and why was their meeting significant?
5. Explain the variety of reasons why Pizzarro’s small force defeated Atahualpa’s empire.

CHAPTER 4: Farmer Power
6. How did food production lead to Spanish advantages over the Inca?

CHAPTER 5: History’s Haves and Have-Nots (Skip this chapter!)

CHAPTER 6: To Farm or Not to Farm
7. Why did hunter-gatherers evolve to become farmers in some areas and not in others?

CHAPTER 7: How to Make an Almond (Skip this chapter!)

CHAPTER 8: Apples or Indians (Skip this chapter!)

CHAPTER 9: Zebras, Unhappy Marriages, and the Anna Karenina Principle
8. Why did Eurasia have the most domesticated animals of all continents?
9. What are the 6 characteristics of domesticated animals?

CHAPTER 10: Spacious Skies and Tilted Axes
10. Why is it significant that Eurasia is the only continent with an East/West axis?
11. What does this mean for continents with a North/South axis?

CHAPTER 11: Lethal Gift of Livestock
12. Following the arrival of European explorers in the New World, why did European diseases wipe-out Native Americans and not the other way around (Native American diseases killing Euros)?

CHAPTER 12: Blueprints and Borrowed Letters
13. What do the following terms mean: “blueprint copying” and “idea diffusion”?
14. Why did kings want to limit writing to the elites?

CHAPTER 13: Necessity’s Mother (Skip this chapter!)

CHAPTER 14: From Egalitarianism to Kleptocracy
15. Summarize the differences between: bands, tribes, chiefdoms, and states.
16. What are 4 reasons why large populations require complex, centralized political organization?

CHAPTER 15: Yali’s People (Skip this chapter!)

CHAPTER 16: How China Became Chinese (Skip this chapter!)

CHAPTER 17: Speedboat to Polynesia (Skip this chapter!)

CHAPTER 18: Hemispheres Colliding
17. Why did Native American societies lag so far behind Eurasian societies in the areas of food production, germs, technology, political organization, and writing?
18. Why did the diffusion of wheat from Mesopotamia prevent independent domestication elsewhere?

CHAPTER 19: How Africa Became Black
19. What were the 5 major human groups that dominated Africa by A.D. 1000?
20. How, when, and why did the Bantu come to dominate sub-Saharan Africa?

EPILOGUE: The Future of Human History as a Science (Skip this chapter!)

Chinese Dynasty Song – to the tune of “Frère Jacques”

Shang, Zhou, Qin, Han
Shang, Zhou, Qin, Han

Sui, Tang, Song
Sui, Tang, Song

Yuan, Ming, Qing, Republic
Yuan, Ming, Qing, Republic

Mao Zedong
Mao Zedong

APWH – Ch 14 Discussion Questions – Read the chapter!

1. What was the nature of the military organization established by Chinggis Khan?
2. What was the nature of the administration of the Mongol empire under Chinggis Khan?
3. What was the effect of the Mongol conquest of Russia and Islamic heartlands?
4. What was the effect of the Mongol conquest on Chinese society and political structure?
5. What were the positive aspects of the Mongol conquests?
6. How did the conquests of Timur-I Lang contrast with those of the Mongols?
7. How did the Mongol conquests bring an end to the postclassical periods in W. Europe, E. Europe, and Islam?
8. Answer the questions for the document, Visualizing the past, and In Depth article.