AP WORLD HISTORY

Unit 1 - The Global Tapestry

Lesson 1: State Building in Song China

Objectives Homework
APWH- Skill 4.A Identify and describe a historical Developments in Dar al-Islam from c 1200 - 1450
context for a specific historical development or
process.
Learning Objective
I will:
Explain the systems of government employed by
Chinese dynasties and how they developed over
time

Vocabulary EQ:
What factors provided order, stability, and
Golden Age
meaning for people in post classical societies?
Bureaucracy
Meritocracy
Compelling Question:
Confucianism
What changed and stayed the same in Song
Daoism
China from the Classical Era?
Buddhism
Civil Service exam
Mandate of Heaven
Filial Piety

Do Now - 10 min

The “Qingming scroll” (The going up the river during the Qingming Festival) the actual painting
was made sometime before 1186 CE and it depicts life during the Song Dynasty in China. The
actual scroll is about eighteen yards long. After watching the following animated version of the
famous painting answer the following questions:

A. List at least three economic activities shown in the painting

B. Based on what you know from the flipped lesson about China’s Song Dynasty. What
innovation(s) are likely using the people painted in the scroll.
Vocabulary

Golden Age

Bureaucracy

Meritocracy

Confucianism

Civil Service exam

Mandate of Heaven

Filial Piety

Daoism

Buddhism

Guided Inquiry - 20 min

How does this Select a category for

document support or your document
refute the idea that Political
Main Idea everyone experienced Social
a Golden Age during Economical
Son China? Technological
Environmental

Document A
Champa Rice

Document B
Three Chinese
Inventions

Document C
Kaifeng Prosperous
 Capital of the Northern
Song.

Document D
Women in the Song
Dynasty

Document E
Marco Polo’s Account
of Son China

What factors provided order, stability, and meaning for people in Song China?

Independent practice - 30 min

Document F

Chinese Government traditions Thothios

What changed and stayed the same in Song China from the Classical Era?

Exit ticket:
AP Classroom

Homework:
Edpuzzle - Heimler’s History Developments in Dar Al Islam