Unit 4: Transoceanic Connections
c. 1450 - 1750
12-15% of AP Exam
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Unit 4 Planning Resources
- Unit 3-4 Combined Pacing Guide Updated 9/2026
- Unit 4 Topics Outline
Unit 4 Presentations
Unit 4 Handouts & Activities
- Topics 4.2 & 4.4 - Maritime Empires Graphic Organizer
- Maritime Empires CCOT Chart
- Topic 4.4 Coercive Labor Systems Graphic Organizer
- Topic 4.3 Columbian Exchange Causation Graphic Organizer
- Silver Trade DBQ Skills Practice Handout Updated 9/2026
- Silver Trade DBQ documents (PDF)
- Silver Trade DBQ Example Added 9/2026
Maritime Exploration - Technology, Causes, and Outcomes Inquiry Lesson
This inquiry lesson covers Topic 4.1 and 4.2
Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Inquiry Lesson
This inquiry lesson covers Topic 4.4
Challenges to State Power
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
This project covers Topic 4.3
Casta Paintings WebQuest
This activity covers Topics 4.7
Teaching the DBQ Packet
Unit 4 Review Resources
- 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