New Syllabus for Unit 6...

...will be online later today. Here's the homework to give you a head start:

2/1 & 2/2: 17.4
2/3: Work on Constitution Project
2/4: 19.1 & Constitution Project due

Please note that the discussion of Things Fall Apart, Part III, will not take place this week. Check your syllabus for the new date.

To find the Japanese edicts assignment

Click here and then scroll down and click on "Unifying and Governing Early Modern Japan."

Possible Paragraph Essay Topics

1. Describe the role of women in Chinese society between 1500 and 1800.
2. Describe the effects of economic changes in the Tokugawa Era on Japanese peasants.
3. Describe the role of women in Tokugawa society.
4. Explain why the kind of commercial capitalism that was emerging in Europe did not develop in China.
5. Describe the makeup of the Chinese family during the Qing Dynasty.
6. How did the shogun exact loyalty from the daimyo?
7. How did the Qing government solve the problem of being ethnically and culturally different from the people they governed?
8. What was the Chinese view of Europeans, and how did interactions with Europeans impact Chinese society?
9. Explain how the samurai gradually ceased to be a warrior class.
10. How did the completion of the Great Canal impact China?
11. What was the Chinese attitude toward European products?
12. Why did Toyotomi Hiegyoshi turn against the Jesuit missionaries?
13. Why was Edo an important city to the Tokugawa rulers?
    
    All reading check questions are also possible topics.

Technical difficulties, again...

Alas and alack...

The maps for the Muslim empires are up, but the assignment isn't. The due date of the assignment will be extended to next Monday, so you will have plenty of time for the assignment. Check the Website again tonight to see if the assignment is there. My apologies!

(Also, you may have noticed that the syllabus hasn't been updated. No worries--just follow the instructions I gave you in class until I can get this problem remedied.)

Thank you for your cooperation--and don't forget about current events!