AP+World+History

10.Changes caused by New Technology 11.Global Interconnections 12.New forms of social organization, government 13.Influence of Industrialization 14.Imperialism 15.Enlightenment, Nationalism, Revolution and Reform 16.Global migration 17.20th Century Science 18.20th Century Conflicts and Global Ramifications Students will also become familiar with geography and develop geospatial awareness. || THESE SKILLS APPLY TO ALL UNITS AP Review Books || THESE MATERIALS ARE FOR ALL UNITS: PPTs; study guides and selected primary sources || THESE ASSESSMENTS APPLY TO ALL UNITS: AP is assessed in a variety of ways including: tests; daily review quizzes; study guides; essay outlines; FRQ Essays; DBQ Essays; DBQ Workbook; Semester Exams; Practice Exams; Review Projects; group collaboration ||
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 * || This course prepares students to take the AP World History exam. It covers material from the origins of people to modern events and considers a variety of topics and themes as proscribed by College Board. It is intended to be a college level survey course of World History. || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">FOR ALL UNITS: Each AP Chapter is covered in 1/2 to 2 weeks so that all units can be covered and treated equally before the exam in May || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Course Themes As per Collegeboard:
 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Interaction between humans and the environment—demography, disease, migration, settlement, technology
 * 2) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Development and interaction of cultures—religions, belief systems, ideologies, philosophies, science and technology, art and architecture
 * 3) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">State Building, Expansion and Conflict—political structures, state building, empires, government; nations and nationalism; revolts and revolutions; regional, transregional, and global structures and organizations
 * 4) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Creation, Expansion, and Interaction of Economies—agricultural and pastoral production; trade and commerce; labor systems; industrialization; capitalism and socialism
 * 5) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Development and transformation of social structures—gender roles and relations; families and kinship; racial and ethnic constructions; social and economic classes || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Several key concepts will be studied in this course including:
 * 6) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">The idea of big history and big geography
 * 7) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">The original population of the earth—Paleolithic, Neolithic and the transition to Societies
 * 8) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Early societies—Mesopotamia, Egypt, Harappa and Mohenjo Daro, Shang, Olmecs, Chavin
 * 9) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Early States and Empires—including Mesopotamia, Egypt, Hittites, Assyrian
 * 10) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Development of early religious and cultural traditions—Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Daoism, Legalism, Christianity, Greco-Roman, Shamanism, Animism, Ancestor Worship, Islam
 * 11) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Development of art and architecture within societies
 * 12) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Growth of states and empires—Persia, Qin, Han, Maurya, Gupta, Phoencia, Greek city-states, Hellenistic World, Roman, Mesoamerica, Moche
 * 13) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Networks of Communication and Trade—people, food, technology, religion
 * 14) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Emergence of New States—Byzantine, Chinese Dynasties, Islamic States
 * 1) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Learn how to craft an historical argument using historical evidence—this includes understanding how to use historical evidence and evaluate its usefulness, creating a sound persuasive argument, writing a clear and analytical thesis, learning how to address conflicting arguments,
 * 2) <span style="font-family: 'Century Schoolbook','serif';">Learn how to evaluate historical evidence—this includes assessing the validity and bias of sources and also the use of a vast array of sources such as written documents, maps, sculptures, art, artifacts and oral traditions; it also addresses issues such as point of view, audience, purpose, format and context; this evidence should be used to draw inferences and conclusions to support arguments
 * 3) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Develop the skill of chronological reasoning—this includes the idea of cause and effect and distinguishing between coincidence, causation, and correlation <span style="font-family: 'Century Schoolbook','serif';">This will also lead to an understanding of patterns and change over time; learning how to connect themes and global processes is essential to understanding history. This also leads to periodization which helps historians to categorize change, important events, and turning points
 * 4) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Understanding comparison and categorization <span style="font-family: 'Century Schoolbook','serif';">Comparing historical events between societies, within societies allows for multiple perspectives
 * 5) <span style="font-family: 'Century Schoolbook','serif';">Historical events can be connected to issues such as time and place (in the theory of big history) but can also be connected to global issues and larger movements
 * 6) <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Practice historical interpretation and synthesis: <span style="font-family: 'Century Schoolbook','serif';">Analyze and evaluate historical events; Use of both primary and secondary sources; Critique not only the historical events but the historians shaping our interpretation of those events and understand how and why historical interpretations change over time; Synthesize ideas from other disciplines and fields to increase historical understanding || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">Tignor, Robert et al. //Worlds Together, Worlds Apart//, 2nd Edition. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 2008.
 * 1 || Prehistory to 600 B.C.E.

Technological and Environmental Transformations Big Geography and the Peopling of the Earth Neolithic Revolution and Early Agricultural Societies Development and Interactions of Early Agricultural, Pastoral, and Urban Societies ||  || What is History? How do we identify societies and in what ways are early societies growing and developing? How does this shape the world? || Environment—importance of rivers to early settlements; how does geography impact early societies

Culture—development of major world religions; how do societies change from Neolithic to a society Expansion—how/why do societies become empires; what is the importance of agriculture to early societies; what types of societies develop and where Social Structure—how/why do classes develop; how do classes differ because of culture and environment Economies—what was the basis for early trade; how do societies interact? How do economies develop? ||  || Chapters 1, 2, 3, 4 ||   ||   || <span style="font-family: 'times new roman',times,serif; font-size: 15px;">Organization and Reorganization of Human Societies <span style="font-family: 'times new roman',times,serif; font-size: 15px;">Development and Codification of Religious and Cultural Traditions <span style="font-family: 'times new roman',times,serif; font-size: 15px;">Development of States and Empires <span style="font-family: 'times new roman',times,serif; font-size: 15px;">Emergence of Regional and Transregional Networks of Communication and Exchange ||  || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">How do societies develop identities and culture? What is the importance of interaction between societies? || <span style="font-family: 'times new roman',times,serif; font-size: 15px;">Environment—How does environment impact the development of larger societies? How does it help/hinder trade and growth? <span style="font-family: 'times new roman',times,serif; font-size: 15px;">Culture—important philosophies, religions change as they spread; how does culture influence social classes and government <span style="font-family: 'times new roman',times,serif; font-size: 15px;">Expansion/Conflict—problems within states and states clash as they grow; why do states grow and fall apart? What problems can the size of a state create? Why do civilizations fight? How do they develop a sense of identity? How do empires grow? <span style="font-family: 'times new roman',times,serif; font-size: 15px;">Economies—development of more stable trading routes and economies; how do long distance trade routes develop? How does this affect cultures? How important are regional and transregional trade and communication? <span style="font-family: 'times new roman',times,serif; font-size: 15px;">Social Structures—why do new classes emerge? What impact does this have on the government of a society? How are social classes organized? ||  || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Chapters 5, 6, 7, 8 ||   ||   || <span style="font-family: 'times new roman',times,serif; font-size: 15px;">Expansion and Intensification of Communication and Exchange Networks <span style="font-family: 'times new roman',times,serif; font-size: 15px;">Continuity and Innovation of State Forms and their Interactions <span style="font-family: 'times new roman',times,serif; font-size: 15px;">Increased Economic Productive Capacity and its Consequences ||  || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">What is the importance of the interaction of societies? How does this effect the global economy? || <span style="font-family: 'times new roman',times,serif; font-size: 15px;">Environmental—How does increased trade lead to a new vision of the world? How does it create problems? <span style="font-family: 'times new roman',times,serif; font-size: 15px;">Culture—What impact does the new religion of Islam have? How do cultures change and merge? What aspects of culture remain the same? How do you put value on a culture? <span style="font-family: 'times new roman',times,serif; font-size: 15px;">Expansion and Conflict—How does the Islamic Empire expand? How does trade expand? What happens as the world grows smaller? What leads to exploration? <span style="font-family: 'times new roman',times,serif; font-size: 15px;">Economies—How is trade growing and changing? How do economies develop and grow stronger? How do stable economies benefit society? How is the economy growing? <span style="font-family: 'times new roman',times,serif; font-size: 15px;">Social Structures—How does labor change? What new forms and structures emerge? How does this impact both culture and government? ||  || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Chapters 9, 10, 11 ||   ||   || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Globalizing Networks of Communication and Exchange <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">New Forms of Social Organization and Modes of Production <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">State Consolidation and Imperial Expansion ||  || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">How does globalization develop and what is the result? What is imperialism and how does it affect the world? || <span style="font-family: 'times new roman',times,serif; font-size: 15px;">Environment—how does environment influence trade; how does environment influence culture; how does environment influence economy <span style="font-family: 'times new roman',times,serif; font-size: 15px;">Culture—how does culture change and continue when worlds collide; what do they trade and how does it affect life <span style="font-family: 'times new roman',times,serif; font-size: 15px;">Expansion—how/why do societies expand; how does it affect the area that expands; how does it affect the area that is colonized <span style="font-family: 'times new roman',times,serif; font-size: 15px;">Social Structure—how/why do classes develop in colonies; why are these classes often unbalanced; what makes people view others as superior/inferior; how does this affect all other aspects of life <span style="font-family: 'times new roman',times,serif; font-size: 15px;">Economies—what was the basis for expansion and how does it affect the economy of both the country that expands and the colony that is created; how do people “value” goods ||  || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Chapters 12, 13, and 14 ||   ||   ||   ||   || <span style="font-family: 'times new roman',times,serif; font-size: 15px;">Industrialization and Global Capitalism <span style="font-family: 'times new roman',times,serif; font-size: 15px;">Imperialism and Nation-state Formation <span style="font-family: 'times new roman',times,serif; font-size: 15px;">Nationalism, Revolution, and Reform <span style="font-family: 'times new roman',times,serif; font-size: 15px;">Global Migration ||  || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">What is the modern world and how does it emerge? || <span style="font-family: 'times new roman',times,serif; font-size: 15px;">Environmental—What impact does industry have on the environment? How do people view environmental concerns? <span style="font-family: 'times new roman',times,serif; font-size: 15px;">Culture—What is the impact of colonialism on culture? What gives societies a sense of identity? How does culture change as trade increases? How does global migration influence culture? <span style="font-family: 'times new roman',times,serif; font-size: 15px;">Expansion—Why does imperialism develop? What impact does it have? How does imperialism lead to global integration? What impact does global migration have? <span style="font-family: 'times new roman',times,serif; font-size: 15px;">What causes revolutions and reform? <span style="font-family: 'times new roman',times,serif; font-size: 15px;">Economies—How does industrialization change the economy? What is capitalism and how does it develop globally? <span style="font-family: 'times new roman',times,serif; font-size: 15px;">Social Structure—How do the events of this period collectively change completely the social structure of the early modern world? ||  || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Chapters 15 and 16 ||   ||   || <span style="font-family: 'times new roman',times,serif; font-size: 15px;">Accelerating Global Change and Realignments <span style="font-family: 'times new roman',times,serif; font-size: 15px;">Science and the Environment <span style="font-family: 'times new roman',times,serif; font-size: 15px;">Global Conflicts and their Consequences <span style="font-family: 'times new roman',times,serif; font-size: 15px;">New Conceptualizations of Global Economy, Society and Culture ||  || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">What challenges does the modern world face and how do we face them? || <span style="font-family: 'times new roman',times,serif; font-size: 15px;">Environment—What challenges does the modern world face in terms of the environment? What issues will concern us in coming years? <span style="font-family: 'times new roman',times,serif; font-size: 15px;">Culture—How does nationalism influence culture? How has culture changed with the birth of the modern world? How does quick global change affect society? <span style="font-family: 'times new roman',times,serif; font-size: 15px;">Expansion and Conflict—WWI and WWII, the Cold War; how does conflict exacerbate problems? What are the consequences of these conflicts? <span style="font-family: 'times new roman',times,serif; font-size: 15px;">Economies—Modern Economies; Third World Designations; economic ventures and cross cultural influences <span style="font-family: 'times new roman',times,serif; font-size: 15px;">Social Structures—the problem of poverty; perception of those in less developed countries ||  || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Chapters 17, 18, 19, 20, 21 ||   ||   ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">2 || <span style="font-family: 'times new roman',times,serif; font-size: 15px;">Societies 600 B.C.E. to 600 C.E.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">3 || <span style="font-family: 'times new roman',times,serif; font-size: 15px;">600 C.E. to 1450 Regional and Transregional Interactions
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">4 || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">1450 to 1750 Global Interactions
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">5 || <span style="font-family: 'times new roman',times,serif; font-size: 15px;">1750 to 1900 Industrialization and Global Integration
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">6 || <span style="font-family: 'times new roman',times,serif; font-size: 15px;">1900 to Modern Times—