Textbook comparison #3

Textbook comparison #3
PURPOSE AND SCOPE OF ASSIGNMENT
This assignment asks you to look carefully at the material presented in two textbooks and compare the presentation of material in the two textbooks. This will make you more aware of selection and presentation in the writing of history, help you improve your ability to write comparative essays, and provide you with a starting point to review for your exam.

DIRECTIONS FOR ASSIGNMENT
Answer each of the following in numbered paragraphs.

1. Describe the coverage of Mongols in the online textbook by Eugene Berger, et al., World History: Cultures, States, and Societies, to 1500.
Focus on coverage of Mongol conquest and Mongol influence on trade and culture. You should be able to find relevant information mainly in sections 11.8-11.10, but also in sections 4.13, 8.13, and 12.18. You can find the complete textbook online at http://open.umn.edu/openTextbooks/BookDetail.aspx?bookId=375. Take into account comprehensiveness, clarity, and organization structure as defined on the textbook review page, http://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/ReviewRubric.aspx. Give specific examples (brief summary with page numbers) to support your evaluation.

2. Describe the coverage of the Mongols in the book bundle textbook for the class. For the Tuesday-Thursday class this is Felipe Fernandez-Armesto, The World: A History, vol. 1 (available through eLearn). For the Monday-Wednesday class, this is Peter von Sivers, et al., Patterns of World History, vol. 1 (available in hard copy through the bookstore).
Focus on coverage of Mongol conquest and Mongol influence on trade and culture (chapter 12 in Fernandez-Armesto; this is covered mainly in chapter 12 in von Sivers, which describes the Yuan Dynasty in China and the Mughal Empire in India). Take into account comprehensiveness, clarity, and organization structure flow as defined on the textbook review page, http://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/ReviewRubric.aspx. Give specific examples (brief summary with page numbers) to support your evaluation.

3. Compare the coverage of river valley civilizations in the two textbooks you examined.
do you think that the Mongols should be treated as a separate historical topic in World History or should their invasions be treated separately for each region that they conquered? Give specific examples (brief summary with page numbers) to support your evaluation.

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