Set up a 3-column note page with these column headings: Physical Power (ie. military) --AND-- Economic Power --AND-- Institutional Control, and on the back side set up this subheading "Foundation (seeds) for the European Renaissance." Add notes to both sides of this paper while viewing the middle segment (53 minutes long) of PBS' "Islam: Empire of Faith" documentary as a review of our big empires concepts and a bridge to the new unit on the European Renaissance, Reformation, and Exploration. (We viewed ~45 minutes today -- ~10 more minutes to go tomorrow.)
