Unit 4: Transoceanic Connections (2.0)
c. 1450 - 1750
12-15% of AP Exam
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Unit 4 Planning Resources (2.0)
Unit 4 Presentations (2.0)
Unit 4 Handouts & Activities (2.0)
Maritime Exploration - Technology, Causes, and Outcomes Inquiry Lesson (2.0)
This inquiry lesson covers Topic 4.1 and 4.2
Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Inquiry Lesson (2.0)
This inquiry lesson covers Topic 4.4
Challenges to State Power (2.0)
This activity covers Topic 4.6
I use this as a jigsaw activity where I assign students a different resistance movement and roll a dice to see which person has to present theirs in front of the class.
I use this as a jigsaw activity where I assign students a different resistance movement and roll a dice to see which person has to present theirs in front of the class.
Columbian Exchange Project (2.0)
This project covers Topic 4.3
Casta Paintings WebQuest (2.0)
This activity covers Topics 4.7
Teaching the DBQ Packet (2.0)
- Teaching the DBQ Packet (Unit 4 Content)
- First DBQ Sample Essay (show this during peer scoring)
Unit 4 Review Resources (2.0)
- Unit 4 Study Guide
- Unit 4 Brain Dump Updated 9/2026
- Unit 3 & 4 Review Handout Added 9/2026
Unit 4 Handout Keys
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Unit 4 Vocabulary
Unit 4 Helpful Links
- Freemanpedia: Unit 4
- Heimler's History: Technological Innovations (Topic 4.1)
- Heimler's History: Exploration Causes & Events (Topic 4.2)
- Heimler's History: Columbian Exchange (Topic 4.3)
- Heimler's History: Maritime Empires Established (Topic 4.4)
- Heimler's History: Maritime Empires Developed and Maintained (Topic 4.5)
- Heimler's History: Challenges to State Power (Topic 4.6)
- Heimler's History: Changing Social Hierarchies (Topic 4.7)
- French and Dutch Exploration of the New World (Khan Academy)
- Agri-History of Cotton in India
- Khan Academy: Spanish and Portuguese Empires Video
- Khan Academy: Scientific Revolution and Enlightenment Video