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Unit 3: Land-Based Empires
c. 1450 - 1750
12-15% of AP Exam

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Unit 3 Planning Resources (Donate for Access) 

  • Unit 3-4 Combined Pacing Guide
  • Unit 3 Topics Outline
  • Unit 3 Study Guide​​

Unit 3 Presentations (Donate for Access) 

  • Ming & Qing China (Topics 3.1, 3.2) ​
  • Muslim Land-Based Empires​ (Topics 3.1, 3.2, 4.7)
  • Tokugawa Japan (Topics 3.1, 3.2) 
  • Protestant Reformation (+ Renaissance) 
  • ​Protestant Reformation (Topic 3.3) 

Unit 3 Handouts & Activities (Donate for Access) 

  • ​Land-Based Empires Graphic Organizer (Topics 3.1, 3.2) 
  • ​​Changes and Continuities in Belief Systems (1450-1750) Graphic Organizer (Topic 3.3)
​Note: Students can/should add to this graphic organizer after completing Unit 4​
  • Unit 3 Monumental Architecture Graphic Organizer
  • Unit 3 Monumental Architecture Resources/Links
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Unit 3 Discussion (Donate for Access) 

This discussion is a great way for your students to review the content of Unit 3 before their assessment. 
  • Discussion Questions
  • Discussion Rubric 
Note: I create four rubrics on one Google document and print them out with the setting "four on a page" so I can have smaller copies to attach to my students' discussion questions. 

Empires Expand: Ottoman Empire Case Study (Donate for Access) 

This activity covers Topics 3.1 and 3.2
  • Ottoman Empire Case Study Documents
  •  Ottoman Empire Case Study Graphic Organizer

Samurai/Tokugawa WebQuest (Donate for Access) 

  • ​​​Samurai / Tokugawa Shogunate Student Handout

Legitimizing Political Authority: Absolutism Case Study (Donate for Access) 

This activity covers Topic 3.2
  • Accompanying Intro Presentation
  • Legitimizing Political Rule in France Case Study Documents 
  • Legitimizing Political Rule in France Case Study Graphic Organizer 

Autopsy of an Empire Activity (Donate for Access) 

  • Instructions, Rubric, and Students Homework Prep
  • Autopsy Presentation/Instructions
  • Autopsy Report (created by Russ Levine) 
  • Sample Autopsy of an Empire Obituary

The following activities are free to access since I did not create them. I reorganized the content from Stanford History Education Group to streamline them for use in my classes. ​

Protestant Reformation Document Analysis (FREE to Access!)

  • Original Activity on SHEG
  • Student Handout
  • Documents 

 Unit 3 Vocabulary

  • Unit 3 Vocabulary

Crash Course Videos

  • ​Protestant Reformation
  • Mughal Empire
  • Venice & the Ottoman Empire
  • Russia, the Kievan, and the Mongols
  • The Renaissance
  • Samurai, Daimyo, and Nationalism

Helpful Links

  • Heimler's History: Unit 3 Review
  • Freemanpedia: 1450 - 1750
  • Khan Academy: Mughal Rule in India
  • Khan Academy: Sikhism
  • Khan Academy: Protestant Reformation






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