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Course: World History Project - Origins to the Present > Unit 5
Lesson 2: Land-Based Empires | 5.1- BEFORE YOU WATCH: Wait for It…The Mongols!
- WATCH: Wait For It...The Mongols!
- READ: Sorqoqtani Beki (Graphic Biography)
- READ: Rashid al-Din (Graphic Biography)
- READ: Rumi (Graphic Biography)
- BEFORE YOU WATCH: Comanche Empire
- WATCH: Comanche Empire
- BEFORE YOU WATCH: Ottoman, Safavid and Mughal Empires
- WATCH: Ottoman, Safavid and Mughal Empires
- Land-Based Empires
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READ: Rashid al-Din (Graphic Biography)
Rashid al-Din was a Muslim intellectual whose history of the world showed the diversity of the peoples and ideas mixing in the Mongol Ilkhanate.
The Graphic Biography below uses “Three Close Reads”. If you want to learn more about this strategy, click here.
First read: skimming for gist
This will be your quickest read. It should help you get the general idea of what the graphic biography will be about. Pay attention to the title, headings, images, and layout. Ask yourself: what is this graphic biography going to be about?
Second read: understanding content
For this reading, you should be looking for unfamiliar vocabulary words, the major claim and key supporting details, and analysis and evidence. You should also spend some time looking at the images and the way in which the page is designed.
By the end of the second close read, you should be able to answer the following questions:
- Who was Rashid al-Din?
- According to the author, what was the difficulty of ruling the Ilkhanate?
- What does the quote from Rashid al-Din’s book, shown in the top panel, tell us?
- How does the artwork in the Jami’i al-Tawarikh demonstrate this diversity?
- How did the artist of this biography try to demonstrate the connections of the Ilkhanate to other regions in the top panel?
Third read: evaluating and corroborating
In this read, you should use the graphic biography as evidence to support, extend, or challenge claims made in the course.
At the end of the third read, you should be able to respond to these questions:
- How does this biography of Rashid al-Din support, extend, or challenge what you have learned about connections and networks in Mongol society and in this era?
Now that you know what to look for, it’s time to read! Remember to return to these questions once you’ve finished reading.
Rashid al-Din (Graphic Biography)
Writer: Trevor Getz
Artist: Liz Clarke
Rashid al-Din was a Muslim intellectual whose history of the world showed the diversity of the peoples and ideas mixing in the Mongol Ilkhanate.
Download the Graphic Biography PDF here or click on the image above.
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