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Teaching DBQ: Chinese Exploration & Isolation

DBQ: Chinese Exploration & Isolation

Citations: Document 1: Confucious translated by James Legge. “The Chinese Classics (Confucian Analects).” Project Gutenberg. <https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/3330/pg3330.html>. Document 2: Wolla, Scott. “Why didn’t China discover the New World?” Social Education, vol. 77, no. 2, 2013, pp 68–73. <https://www.socialstudies.org/system/files/publications/articles/se_77021368.pdf>. Document 3: Gronewald, Sue. “The Ming Voyages.” Asia for Educators. <http://afe.easia.columbia.edu/special/china_1000ce_mingvoyages.htm>. Document 4: "File:The Great Wall of China at Jinshanling-edit.jpg." Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository. <https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title

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ESSENTIAL QUESTION:

Why did the Ming Dynasty stop exploring the world and return to isolation?
STANDARDS:

DEPTH OF KNOWLEDGE (DOK) LEVELS:

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