The Story of China - Episode 4: The Ming

This Video Response Worksheet and Key is based on the PBS documentary series “The Story of China - Episode 4: The Ming.”

You will receive a Video Response Worksheet and Key in PDF format.

Video Response Worksheets will turn your history lesson into a rich educational experience that keeps students attentive, engaged, and accountable. The questions are designed so that they occur at a regular pace to keep the students engaged but not overloaded. They are also designed so that a review of the completed worksheet gives students a basic overall summary of the video.

This episode is approximately 55 minutes long.

From the producer:

SERIES DESCRIPTION: Traveling from the Silk Road to the Yellow Sea, Michael Wood explores the history of the world’s newest superpower. A thrilling and moving epic of the world’s oldest continuous state with the landscapes, peoples, and stories that made today’s China.

ABOUT THIS EPISODE: The Ming Dynasty was the time of the Great Wall and the Forbidden City, when China sent treasure ships on ocean voyages to Africa and the Persian Gulf. In Nanjing Michael Wood sees the building of a huge replica of a Ming ocean-going junk. In Suzhou the ‘Venice of China’, he explores the silk industry, ceramics and lacquer-making, and visits one of China’s most beautiful gardens. Then in Macao, the arrival of Jesuit missionary Matteo Ricci begins China’s fateful modern exchanges with the West.