what's the greatest gift you ever received for me it's christmas 1989 the power glove so bad but for china it was a fast-growing drought-resistant strain of rice from southeast asia today's illustrious example chopper rice what up i'm ben freeman from froomepd.com and today we're talking about champa rice but before we get going the reason i'm doing this i run a website called freemanpd.com where i try to translate ap world history modern to people like you all around the world in may of 2019 the college board came out with a brand new ced which is a list of what you need to know and we need to teach you so like any good website person i tried to include all this new stuff on my website to help you guys out and like any good historical researcher i went to the second biggest search engine on the planet i went to youtube now for a lot of these topics there's not a lot of stuff on youtube for it try it go up in the search bar search for chomper rice i'll wait see there's not a lot of stuff there there's some quality stuff from heimler kind of an overview look at stuff and there's some surprisingly good recipes and there's one girl who's high school ap world history class made her sing a song about chomper rice otherwise there's not really that much stuff there and it's stuff like this that i run into all the time where i want to put stuff online that should be there that there should be historical stuff for you but it's not there so it's my job to put that stuff out there and when i can't find it i guess from here on out i'm gonna have to make it so i've gone through the illustrative examples of the ced you'll see that on the right side i've provided a link in the bottom where you can see the ced and what they expect you to know it's a long thing but if you get to the meat and potatoes of it you're going to find a bunch of stuff that's kind of vague and then there's some illustration of examples on the side now those lots of examples on the side like chopper rice today aren't easy to find necessarily so i found 40 and there's just not that much stuff out there on these topics and it's those a list of examples that we'll be covering here on a lesser of examples it's a terrible name but it's literally what it is so deal with it and so i now throw my hat in the ring with a long line of bald bearded historians from thucydides to heimler and be sure to stick around at the end because i'm gonna throw up a real saq and a real leq from past ap world history exams that actually deal on this topic specifically so we'll run through those together as you can actually use your new champa rice knowledge for good but i can't randomly just start talking rice at you so let's get some context contextualization is a big scary word and this is your first ap world history or any ap course it's going to be a scary word for you but by the end of this year and by the end of your high school career you're going to run through a ton of different things and they all will require you to do contextualization contextualization is not just some random thing that i'm doing in this video because i think it's cool you're going to find it in all the leq's you're going to find it in the dbq it's something you're going to have to do to establish what you're talking about in your essay and it's super easy to do it's not going to take any extra effort on your part you're basically setting the stage for what you're going to be talking about in class i call it the star wars crawl it's that thing at the beginning of the film that pops up and tells you what's going on so you're not randomly thrown into space and have no idea what's going on you have a little context hence the name contextualization imagine you just clicked on this video right now and there's some bald bearded dude sitting there telling you a bunch of stuff about rice you'd be completely lost and you'd have no idea why rice even matters except for dinner so the goal of contextualization is to take the idea of chopper rice and put it in the global contextualization as to what's going on in this era and this place in this region so that you have some sort of idea what's going on and it's not just randomly thrown at you that's contextualization so to contextualize chomper rice you need to not just talk about what rice is but you need to talk about why chopper rice matters in the time period why chopper rice is where it is why it going from one place to a place just slightly to the north of it is a really really big deal and what's going on in that place what's going on in all the places you need to put this little gift this little tributary gift in context to the global picture let us know why rice is even being mentioned i've said rice more today than i've said in my entire life so why rice why now why is it important all right let's try it put one minute on the clock i'm gonna try and do this under a minute here we go all right ready the first two units of ap world history run from 1200 to 1450 and within that time period they're expecting you to know a lot about connectivity connectivity between regions connectivity between peoples the first unit global tapestry sets it up as kind of here's what's going on in all these places the second unit is networks of exchange and in the networks of exchange you kind of start to connect those units together we're starting in 1200 which means rome is gone byzantines are hanging on but rome is gone guptan india is gone han china has gone all that classical stuff is gone you need to start to forget about that the two new big influences in this era are what i call eminem's muslims and mongols and the muslims and mongols are going to change the shape of the earth in ways that had never happened to this point and the reason these two are able to do that is because of these networks of exchange which is what unit 2 is all about but let's zoom in a little closer to east asia in east asia china is king china is always king china is still king china is a big deal china is always a big deal at this point china is run by the song dynasty you could see them here i know what you're thinking that's not a very large china it's not a large china it's kind of half of china and it's for that and for many other reasons that they're often overlooked they're wedged in between the tang renaissance china which is a a huge historical point for the chinese and on the other side is the mongols so there's not really uh much of a spotlight that gets put on them and so the song are often overlooked they're wedged between renaissance china the tang and the yuan dynasty which is of course the mongols and it's so bad they're actually paying tribute to two other chinese dynasties that we won't get into here however they are still a big enough deal that they accept over 300 different tribute missions during their reign in which one of those is from a kingdom to the south called the champa and the chompa kingdom brings with them chomper rice which will double the population of china within a few decades did i do it did i was that a minute oh well keep your contextualization as short as you can you only get one point for it on the essays don't ramble on i tend to ramble okay enough contextualization so let's get to the example itself everything in east asia orbits china think of china as jupiter everywhere else in the region is completely affected by how china does things how china trades how what china's belief system china's wealth china's invasions all that stuff is directly affected by china itself i'm not saying everyone else is insignificant but think of all the places in east asia as moons of china orbiting around and i'm not saying all of east asia is unimportant except for china i mean let's say that japan and korea are like ganymede the largest of the julian moons now of course it is a moon however it is the ninth largest thing in the solar system so it's not that small right am i right i went to space camp so so anyway think of japan and korea like ganymede still a big deal but jupiter's right there and so that's china and you always have to deal with china let's focus on a lesser moon like io io is still close to jupiter it's not very large but it's still you know it's a moon and for this rambling metaphor let's just say it's champa champa was a kingdom that lasted from 192 to 1832 that's like almost seven united states is so that's a long time it's probably the longest reigning kingdom that you've never heard about they're located today in what we would call the southern region of vietnam vietnam historically for a good chunk of time is kind of divided in that north south region whether it's the diviet to the north or the champa kingdom to the south you would think that they're so close to china they would be like super chinese like just a mere copy of china however there's a lot of stuff that came in via another global network right the networks of exchange from india not only do they speak sanskrit right in sanskrit and the religion of the upper classes is hinduism but they also have a strain of rice that came through those trade routes all the way over to champa from bangladesh what we call bangladesh in east india you know they got that indian influence they got that indian rice from the highlands there for this story they're one of the 302 trade missions that visit song china in this period but they don't stand out for being one of those 300 they stand out for what they bring with them they don't bring gold they don't bring silver they bring their fast growing rice to china and they don't do it just because they want to they actually have an ulterior muscle what's wrong with chinese rice well chinese rice is fine but chinese rice is slow it has about 180 days from planting to harvest now if you know anything about time 180 days is enough for to grow a crop in a year which is fine but you only get that one crop and that's what the song dynasty is dealing with the song dynasty is growing pretty quickly and to meet this need they need more food but you can only get so much food from the rice that they currently have if you look at the edicts of the first three song emperors they're all saying grow more food grow more food grow more food cut down for us drain some swamps we need more food we need more food so if those edicts are going out and those are getting around the chopper are definitely hearing those and it was the third song emperor zhen zhong who received the famous tribute from their tributary state to the south the champa so what's the deal with chopper rice well chopper rice already told you chinese rice is growing in 180 day period chomper rice is growing in a 60-day period now if you do the math there that's up to three times as many crops you can do in just one year now if you exacerbate that over time you're gonna have tons of more food tons of more food for more people to eat more people can live and then there's more people in china more people on the planet so you're getting more yield you're getting a strain that is drought resistant meaning it doesn't need as much water you're also getting one that's not affected by the amount of daylight so if you are growing it in those parts of the year where there's not as much sunlight doesn't matter it doesn't affect the strain of rice so i'm sure the champa were very heartfelt in their love of china and wanting to have china gain in population and feed their starving people but more realistically it was because they hated their neighbors to the north to dive yet and they were constantly fighting with them through history and so they wanted china to favor them over the dive yet so they gave them the fast growing rice like here feed your people and don't forget that it was the choppa that gave you the stuff when the diviet comes crawling or if we need you to help us against them essentially if you scratch our back we'll double your population deal deal that's a nice tributary relationship you're helping us and then hopefully you don't kill us and boy did it arrive just in time in the year 1012 there was a huge drought in china as you know in china they have something called the mandate of heaven the mandate of heaven states that if the heavens favor the emperor then china will be going well and if things are going bad that means that you're losing the mandate of heaven and you're probably about to lose power and now a drought and famine are going to cause you to lose power enter the chomper rice all of a sudden it really seems like the mandate of heaven is returning you've found a magical food that can feed us all and for zhen zong takes that gets 30 000 bushels of that rice and has it distributed across china and says grow it everywhere and they do they terrace farming on the mountains they double crop it down in the lowlands it's growing rapidly and the population of china does double and luckily it doubled just in time for the mongols to arrive so so when your teacher's talking about the technological and environmental outcomes of the networks of exchange champa rice is definitely one of those examples you can use some would say it's an illustrative example all right so you know what champa rice is it's been contextualized so let's actually see what you can do with this knowledge when it comes to maine you're taking the ap world exam this is the 2017 exam so in one of the essay queues you can see it here there's a pretty easy opportunity for you to use your chopper rice knowledge to your advantage so here it is like a lot of things on the ap exam this thing is a stimulus-based question so let's look at the stimulus here it is start at the bottom you can see who it is it's some guy historian this was written not long ago so some guy in relatively current day writing about the past so here he is he's talking he says the first and most important in the early modern era is the intensified human land use in every world region rising human numbers put increasing pressure on the land almost invariably human expansion caused a reduction in the quantity and diversity of vegetation or to put it in other terms a reduction in biomass so he's talking about farming and what farming did to the diversity of the crops great so agriculture was and continues to be the single most important means yes that's where we get our food thank you john f richards but for you what's important for you look down at letter b identify and explain one historically specific example from the period before 1450 in which humans interacted with the environment in ways very similar to those described in the passage where people are using one crop to help increase the population where they are using one strain it reduces the diversity of the crops because it's the only one they're growing chomper rice but wait what about the year chomper rice arrives in china roughly around 1 000 so i know that's before the course starts but the impact takes a while so here it says before 1450. since this is before 1450 you can definitely use uh champa rice as an example here and if you look at the scoring guide that the college board gives you it even says please talk about chopper rice here so you've now used your chopper rice to get a point on the saq what about an leq this is from the 2019 leq now you're gonna have a choice when it comes to the leqs which is nice of them however you probably won't think it's nice on that day so one of the options on the 2019 leq was something you could have used your brand new chopper rice knowledge about so let's look at it so this is the last leq they gave considering in 2020 they only did the dbq because of obviously the pandemic so this is the one of the last examples you would have had of any kind of essay that the college board is expecting you to write and it's choppa rice based in the period 600 to 14.50 hey wait a minute that's when the year 1000 is that's when the chomper rice stuff what a perfect time to ask this question in the year 600 to 1450 trade networks expanded an economic productive capacity increase that's great technological innovations and transfers often contributed to this process wonderful that's a little setup then they hit you with the prompt develop an argument that evaluates the extent so how much a lot a little so come up with an argument that says why it is a lot or why it is a little or why it doesn't at all to which technological innovations or transfers led to an increased economic growth in this period what is something that transferred that led to economic growth say from the choppa kingdom to china which doubled their population because they could farm up to three times as much food which allowed farmers to bring in more wealth and feed their families and have more kids and those kids then survive it's choppa rice so that's some real world use of chopper rice that's two in the past three years where you could have used this one specifically lester example of which there is nothing on youtube about until today for you to very quickly be able to look it over and figure out what's going on what's chopper right really quickly oh it's a fast-growing strain that was tribute paid to the song chinese and helped their population grow all right thanks for watching i'm ben freeman one last time i'm gonna try and post these as often as i can to try to fill the holes on the internet where there just isn't stuff for you that's uh quick enough simple enough for you to uh see an illustrative example figure out what it is and be able to use it in an essay and an saq an leq dbq what have you so click subscribe if you want to get these once i post them i am a real teacher so i am able to post these as i can as quickly as i can so if you're subscribed you'll be able to get them right when they come out thanks again good luck on the exam in may and i'll see you guys next time [Music] you