Advanced Placement World History Syllabus 2018-2019 Course Description: This course offers balanced global coverage, with Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe, and the Oceania all represented. The purpose of this AP World History course is to develop a greater understanding of the evolution of global processes and contacts on different types of human societies. The AP World History course highlights the nature of changes in global frameworks and their causes and consequences, as well as comparisons among major societies. Emphasis should be on relevant factual knowledge, leading interpretive issues, and skills in analyzing types of historical evidence. Periodization explicitly discussed forms and organizing principle to address change and continuity throughout the course. Specific themes provide further organization to the course, along with consistent attention to contacts. Students will be expected to read outside of class and will be given homework assignments on a regular basis. Special emphasis will be placed on preparation skills for the AP Exam; thus, students will be expected to participate in enrichment opportunities that may occur on the weekends or during intersession. Receipt of college credit is contingent upon their score on the AP Exam, which all students are expected to take at the end of the Spring Semester. Course Resources: Primary Textbook: - Bentley, Jerry H. & Herbert F. Ziegler Traditions & Encounters (2nd Edition) McGraw Hill, New York, 2003 Supplementary Textbooks: - Stearns, Peter N. et al. World Civilizations: The Global Experience (4th Edition) Pearson Longman, New York, 2005 - Strayer, Robert. Ways of the World, with Resources, Bedford/St. Martins, New York, 2011 - Bulliet, Richard W., et al. The Earth and Its Peoples: A Global History - AP Edition (3rd Edition) Houghton Mifflin, New York, 2001 Primary Sources: - Source: Ralph T. Griffith, trans. The Hymns of the Rigveda, 4 vols., 2nd ed. Benares: E. J. Lazarus, 1889–92, 4:289–93. (Translation slightly modified.) -
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Advanced Placement World History
Syllabus 2018-2019
Course Description: This course offers balanced global coverage, with Africa, the
Americas, Asia, Europe, and the Oceania all represented. The purpose of this AP World
History course is to develop a greater understanding of the evolution of global processes
and contacts on different types of human societies. The AP World History course
highlights the nature of changes in global frameworks and their causes and consequences,
as well as comparisons among major societies. Emphasis should be on relevant factual
knowledge, leading interpretive issues, and skills in analyzing types of historical
evidence. Periodization explicitly discussed forms and organizing principle to address
change and continuity throughout the course. Specific themes provide further
organization to the course, along with consistent attention to contacts. Students will be
expected to read outside of class and will be given homework assignments on a regular
basis. Special emphasis will be placed on preparation skills for the AP Exam; thus,
students will be expected to participate in enrichment opportunities that may occur on the
weekends or during intersession. Receipt of college credit is contingent upon their score
on the AP Exam, which all students are expected to take at the end of the Spring
Semester.
Course Resources:
Primary Textbook:
- Bentley, Jerry H. & Herbert F. Ziegler Traditions & Encounters (2nd Edition) McGraw
Hill, New York, 2003
Supplementary Textbooks:
- Stearns, Peter N. et al. World Civilizations: The Global Experience (4th Edition)
Pearson Longman, New York, 2005
- Strayer, Robert. Ways of the World, with Resources, Bedford/St. Martins, New
York, 2011
- Bulliet, Richard W., et al. The Earth and Its Peoples: A Global History - AP
Edition (3rd Edition) Houghton Mifflin, New York, 2001
Primary Sources:
- Source: Ralph T. Griffith, trans. The Hymns of the Rigveda, 4 vols., 2nd ed.
Benares: E. J. Lazarus, 1889–92, 4:289–93. (Translation slightly modified.)
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Nine Historical Thinking Skills of AP World History:
Course Themes: The AP World History course consists of 5 themes. These themes present a broad level of
main ideas that the student will see throughout the span of the course. These themes
should be able to present cross period connections and help to recognized broad trends
and processes that have developed over centuries in various regions of the world.
Theme 1: Interaction Between Humans and the Environment
-Demography and Disease
-Migration
-Patterns of Settlement
-Technology
Theme 2: Development and Interaction of Cultures
-Religions
-Belief Systems, philosophies, and ideologies
-Science and technology
-The arts and architecture
Theme 3: State-Building, Expansion, and Conflict
-Political structures and forms of governance
-Empires
-Nations and nationalism
-Revolts and Revolutions
-Regional, transregional, and global structures and organizations
Theme 4: Creation, Expansion, and Interaction of Economic Systems
-Agricultural and Pastoral Production
-Trade and Commerce
-Labor Systems
-Industrialization
-Capitalism and Socialism
Theme 5: Development and Transformation of Social Structures
-Gender roles and relations
-Family and Kinship
-Racial and Ethnic Constructions
-Social and Economic Classes
Period 1: Technological and Environmental Transformations to 600
BCE Key Concept 1.1: Big Geography and the Peopling of the Earth
Key Concept 1.2: The Neolithic Revolution and the Early Agricultural Societies
Key Concept 1.3: The Development and Interactions of Early Agriculture, Pastoral and
Urban Societies
Topics for Overview
-Hunting and foraging bands and early migration
-Adaptation of technology and cultures to new regions
-Neolithic revolution
-Development of complex economic and social systems
-Agriculture and Pastoralism and the transformation of human societies
-Foundational Civilizations: Mesopotamia, Egypt, Mohenjo-Daro, Shang, Olmecs, and
Chavine
-Foundational Culture: law, language, literature, religion, myths and monumental art..
Selected Activities and Assignments include but are not limited to:
Key Concept 1.1: Big Geography and the Peopling of the Earth
- Students will complete any textbook reading assignments and quizzes.
- Students will create maps of the global pattern migrations of the early peoples.
- Students will analyze reasons as to why early people migrated in to particular
regions of the world.
Key Concept 1.2: The Neolithic Revolution and the Early Agricultural Societies
- Students will complete any textbook reading assignments and quizzes.
- Students will create charts using S.C.R.I.P.T.E.D. or P.E.R.S.I.A.N methods for
specific civilizations and present to the class.
- Students will create charts of differences/similarities within the given
civilizations.
Key Concept 1.3: The Development and Interactions of Early Agriculture, Pastoral and
Urban Societies
- Students will complete any textbook reading assignments and quizzes.
- Students will be introduced to primary source analysis (SOAPPS-Tone)
- Students will analyze primary source documents of Early River Valley
Civilizations
- Students will perform cause and effect exercises for the Neolithic Revolution.
Period 2 Organization and Reorganization of Human Societies, c. 600
BCE to 600 CE
Key Concept 2.1: The Development and Codification of Religious and Cultural
Traditions.
Key Concept 2.2: The Development of States and Empires
Key Concept 2.3: Emergence of Transregional Networks of Communication and
Exchange
Topics for Overview
- Codification and development of existing religions and its connection to ethical codes to
live by. Special Focus on Judaism and Hinduism.
- New Belief Systems and traditions asserted universal truths. Special Focus on
Buddhism, Confucianism, Daoism, Christianity.
-The effect of belief systems on gender roles. Special Focus on Buddhism, Christianity
and Confucianism.
-Other religious culture traditions that parallel to the codified written belief systems of
core civilizations. Special Focus on shamanism and animism.
-Political unity of key states and empires (ex. Administrative institutions). Special Focus
on Persian Empires, Qin, Han, Maurya, Gupta, Greek and Roman Empires, Mayas,
Moche.
- Socio-Economic developments of Afro-Eurasia societies and the Americas.
-Collapse, decline, or transformation of empires through political, cultural or
administrative difficulties. Special Focus on Roman, Han, Persian, Mauryan and
Gupta empires.
- Land and water routes for transregional trade, communication and exchange in the
Easter Hemisphere. Special Focus on Eurasian Silk Roads, Trans-Saharan caravan
routes, Indian Ocean sea lanes, Mediterranean Sea lanes.
-Development of the following amongst large networks of communication and exchange:
trade in goods, exchange of people, technology, religion, culture, agriculture,
domestication and disease.
Selected Activities and Assignments include but are not limited to:
Key Concept 2.1: The Development and Codification of Religious and Cultural
Traditions.
- Students will complete any textbook reading assignments and quizzes.
- Students will analyze the tenets of Judaism through the use of the Torah and
discuss how these tenets influence and create an ethical code to live by for people.
- Students will analyze the tenets of Hinduism by reviewing the caste system and
how this structure has led to a secularization of this system in a social, political
and economic sense.
- Students will read a section of the Rig Veda and discuss how this creation story
compares to other religious creation stories.
- Students will also perform Illustrative Analysis on images of the major belief
systems.
- Students will create and present a chart comparing and contrasting the major
tenets or Buddhism, Daoism, Confucianism and Christianity. They will also
explain how these belief systems were paralleled in other religious cultural
traditions.
- Students will write an essay discussing the impact of the above belief systems and
their effect on gender roles and political systems of then and now.
Key Concept 2.2: The Development of States and Empires
- Students will complete any textbook reading assignments and quizzes.
- Students will identify the rise of major classical empires
- Students will identify the causes and consequences of the decline of major
classical empires of the Mediterranean, Meso-America, South Asia and East Asia.
- Students will write an essay that will evaluate the similarities and differences of
the causes and consequences of the decline of major classical empires of the
Meditterrean, Meso-America, South Asia and East Asia.
Key Concept 2.3: Emergence of Transregional Networks of Communication and
Exchange
- Students will complete any textbook reading assignments and quizzes.
- Students will be able to identify and map out various trade routes of the Eurasian
Silk Roads, Trans-Saharan routes, Indian Ocean routes and Mediterranean routes.
- Students will be able to identify the major goods of each trade route and the
diffusion of religion, culture and disease along the various trade routes.
Period 3: Regional and Transregional Interactions, c. 600 CE to c. 1450
CE
Key Concept 3.1: Expansion and Intensification of Communication and Exchange
Networks
Key Concept 3.2: Continuity and Innovation of State Forms and their Interactions
Key Concept 3.3: Increased Economic Productive Capacity and Its Consequences
Topics for Overview
-Expansion of existing and newly developed trade routes and networks through improved
transportation technologies and commercial practices. Special focus on Silk Roads,
Mediterranean Sea, Trans-Saharan, Indian Ocean Basin, MesoAmerica and Andes.
-Expansion of the following empires through Trans-Eurasion trade: China, Byzantine,
Islamic, Mongolian.
-Linguistic and environmental of effects of long distance trade. Special Focus on Bantu
and Polynesian migrations.
- Cross-cultural exchanges between existing or new networks of trade and
communication. Special focus on the Islamic World.
-Contacts and conflicts between empires that encouraged technological and cultural
transfers. Special focus on Tang and Abbassid, across Mongol empires, and Crusades.
- Agricultural and Industrial stimulation through innovation
-Decline and Revival of Urbanization through the aid of productivity and expanding trade
networks.
- Changes in labor management and the effect of religious conversion on gender relations
and family life. Special focus on Middle Ages: Crusades, Schism, Feudalism.
Selected Activities and Assignments include but are not limited to:
Key Concept 3.1: Expansion and Intensification of Communication and Exchange
Networks
- Students will complete any textbook reading assignments and quizzes.
- Students will write a comparative essay on the migrations of the Bantus, Vikings
and Polynesians and how each migration contributed to environmental, linguistic,
cultural and religious diffusion..
- Students will perform an Illustrative Analysis based on diffusion of cross cultural
exchanges.
- Students will get in groups and discuss the importance of cross cultural trade
based on trade migrations and present the importance of each migration to the
class.
Key Concept 3.2: Continuity and Innovation of State Forms and their Interaction
- Students will complete any textbook reading assignments and quizzes.
- Students will be introduced to the DBQ and application of the PERSIAN or
SCRIPTED method with the use of the DBQ.
- Students will compare and contrast the reconstitution of the Byzantine Empire and
Chinese dynasties.
- Students will complete a cause and effect exercise on the emergence of Islamic states,
Mongols, city-states, and Feudalistic ideas of Europe and Japan.
-Students will discuss the importance of synthesis amongst local and borrowed traditions.
-Students will create a chart showing technological and cultural transfers of interregional
contacts and conflicts.
Key Concept 3.3: Increased Economic Productive Capacity and its Consequences
- Students will complete any textbook reading assignments and quizzes.
- Students will create a cause and effect chart on productivity base on trade
networks.
- Students will be introduced to the Continuity and Change over time essay.
- Students will write a Continuity and Change overtime essay based on labor
management, religious conversion and its effects on gender roles.
- Students will perform a cause and effect chart on coerced labor within European,
Japanese and Mesoamerican Empires.
Period 4: Global Interactions, c. 1450 to c. 1750
Key Concept 4.1: Globalizing networks of Communication Networks of Communication
and Exchange
Key Concept 4.2: New forms of Social Organization and Modes of Production
Key Concept 4.3: State Consolidation and Imperial Expansion
Topics for Overview
- Revolutions in Sailing
- European exploration and interactions with American and Asian markets. Special focus
on Portugese, Spanish, Dutch, French, and British.
- Colombian Exchange
- Interactions between hemispheres spread and reformed existing religions creating
syncretic belief systems and practices
- Slavery and Plantation systems
- Development of new social, political elites and restructuring of new ethnic, racial and
gender hierarchies.
- Legitimacy and Centralized powers, imperial expansion through armory and the trade of
armory. Special focus on Manchus, Mughals, Ottomans, Russia.
Selected Activities and Assignments include but are not limited to:
Key Concept 4.1: Globalizing Networks of Communication and Exchange
Period 5: Industrialization and Global Integration, c. 1750-c. 1900
Key Concept 5.1: Industrialization and Global Capitalism
Key Concept 5.2: Imperialism and Nation-State Formation
Key Concept 5.3: Nationalism, Revolution, and Reform
Key Concept 5.4: Global Migration
Topics for Overview
- Factors leading to Industrial Revolution
- Consequences of the Industrial Revolution. Special focus on transportation,
communication, global economies, and societal development.
-Growth of imperialism and the spread of transoceanic empires. Special focus on British
empire’s imperialism, Scramble for Africa, Latin American imperialism, and Asian
and Pacific imperialism.
- Revolutions and the spread of transnational ideologies and solidarities. Special focus on
American Revolution, French Revolution, Haitian Revolution and Latin American
independence movement.
- Social impact of Revolutions. Special focus on conservatism, liberalism, socialism,
communism, women’s suffrage.
- Migration: consequences and reactions
Period 6: Accelerating Global Change and Realignments, c. 1900 to the
Present
Key Concept 6.1: Science and the Environment
Key Concept 6.2:Global Conflicts and Their Consequences
Key Concept 6.3: New Conceptualizations of Global Economy, Society, and Culture
Topics for Overview
- Development of new technologies which led to the advancements of science.
- Human – environment relationships
- World War I: Before and After. Special focus on Imperialist expansion s by European
powers, competition for resources, ethnic conflict, great power rivalries, nationalist
ideologies.
- Worldwide Economic Depression Special Focus on closer involvement of
governments in economic roles, communist nation’s economic control (i.e. Soviet
Union and China).
- Dissolution of Empires and restructuring of states. Special focus on national leaders,
regional, religious and ethnic movements, and transnational movements.
- World War II: Before and After.
- Cold War
- Global Organizations and Alliances
- Non-violent methods of change. Special focus on Picasso art, Gandhi, Martin Luther
King.
- The proliferation and intensification of conflicts through military and militarized states
to reach political aims. Special focus on military dictatorship of Chile, Spain and
Uganda, IRA, ETA, Al-Qaeda
- Globalization and the interdependence of states, communities and individuals. Special
focus on economic institutions, humanitarian organizations, regional trade
agreements, multinational corporations, global changes in environmental and
economic consequences.
Periodization
In-class/Homework:
In order to support the student mastery of content and synthesis of historical patterns over
time students will be expected to complete a number of activities that will help them
prepare for the AP Exam in the spring. These activities include but are not limited to the