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AP World History Summer Assignment 2012
Text: Bentley, J. & Herbert Ziegler. Traditions and Encounters: A Global Perspective on
the Past. 4th ed. NY: Mcgraw-Hill, 2008.
Teacher: Mrs. Barazani
[email protected]
www.howdidwegethere.wikispaces.com
Websites: Text- www.glencoe.com/bentley4 or bentley5
AP College Boardhttp://www.collegeboard.com/student/testing/ap/sub_worldhist.html?worldhist
Welcome to Advanced Placement World History. This course covers approximately
10,000 years of history, so we have a lot to cover and absorb. AP World History is
taught using extensive reading, exploration of the five themes of world history (broken
down into seven themes for our class), comparing and contrasting societies, and
examining continuities and change over time. For most of you, this is your first foray into
the world of advanced placement classes. To be successful, you will need to stay
focused, be prepared to read, and to work hard.
The first three units of the AP World History course cover an enormous amount of
information and textbook chapters. To help us out on this journey, it’s important to use
the summer to prepare us for this course. Therefore, your summer assignment will be to
cover the readings of the Foundations Unit, complete a chart, vocabulary words, and a
world map. The summer assignment is due the first day of the academic school year.
Pace yourself over the summer; do not leave it until the end. In addition to the written
work, you will have a quiz the first or second day of school on all of the vocabulary.
You will work independently. This work must be your own and must be original.
Sometimes, it is helpful to work with a partner or a small group. If you choose to do this,
whatever you write must be in your own words. Do not copy word for word from the text
or from your friends. All of the worksheets or charts that you have been given are
posted on the class Wiki and may be downloaded, copied, printed or saved. That way
you can expand each according to your needs. If you need to contact me during the
summer, please feel free to email me. I will check my email every few days.
Make good use of the textbook website. It has chapter outlines, glossary, interactive
maps and more. I strongly encourage you to print out the chapter outlines and take
notes on the outline while you are reading. Then, using the outline and your notes, go
back and fill in your RECIPES Chart. Also, get familiar with the AP College Board World
History website. It will help you understand the course and the testing methods.
Work hard. Push yourself. Do your best!
Part I: Skim Chapters 1-6
These chapters cover Neolithic settlements, the four River Valley Civilizations, and
Mesoamerican societies. I highly encourage you to utilize the chapter outlines by printing each
out and taking notes on the outline.
Part 2: R-E-C-I-P-E-S Chart
As you are reading, complete the R-E-C-I-P-E-S chart. You have also been provided with an
explanation of R-E-C-I-P-E-S and the questions you should be answering within your chart for
each theme and place. Throughout this course, you will need to break down cultures and
civilizations to a basic level so that you can see the key characteristics and developments within
a society and compare them to other societies in order to get the big picture of world history.
Using the R-E-C-I-P-E-S chart will help you break down the huge amount of information into
something more workable. When filling in the chart, you may want a few specifics but the overall
information should be more general in nature. In other words, limit what you write. It’s a chart,
not a textbook.
Each chapter of the text is basically divided the same way. It starts with the political and
economic factors and then moves into the religious, social, intellectual, and artistic factors.
Feel free to download the chart from the Wiki.
Part 3: Vocabulary
While you read complete all words for each chapter. All vocabulary words are from your text.
Use the definitions/examples from your text. There is no need to look anywhere else for the
definitions (except on possibly a few occasions). Once again, you may/should download your
copy. On the first or second day of class you will have a quiz on the vocabulary terms from all
six chapters.
Part 4: World Map
Label and learn the locations on the world map. You will be quizzed on it later in the year.
R-E-C-I-P-E-S
Based on the 5 Themes of World History as put forth by the AP Board:
Interaction between humans and the environment
Development and interaction of cultures
State building, expansion and conflict
Creation, expansion and interaction of economic systems
Development and transformation of social structures
Religion
How people explain, relate to and cope with the mysterious; a way of making things understandable
Consider:
What are the basic beliefs? What are the formal practices? What role do religious leaders play? What is the
religious impact on gender/social roles? Where did the group come from? What happens after they die? What
documents are there to define them? How does the religion view science, technology and learning?
Environment
The physical or material conditions in which people find themselves; the terrain, soil, climate, and geographical
features; demography & the effects of demography on the environment
Consider:
Where have people moved (migration) and why? Have plants, animals or diseases been transmitted to new
locations? Have the population levels changed & why? What alterations have the people made on the environment?
Culture
How people express themselves through the creation of objects and experiences that reflect their thoughts and
feelings through painting, sculpture, architecture, music, dance, theater and literature; the develop of traditions
(food, clothing, celebrations)
Consider:
What is most import to this civilization or group? What do they value? What are the cultural activities of the group?
What do they produce that maintains their culture?
Intellectual
How people form ideas and beliefs; how they learn, where does knowledge come from, how it is passed on
Consider:
How do science and religion relate? What new technology or advancements are being created and how are they
being used? Who are the thinkers? What groups are given the chance to learn?
Political
How people are governed; What political system do they use? who makes the laws, decides on foreign relations,
collect taxes, dispenses justice, and provides necessary services to the public; what is the response of the people?
Consider:
Who is in charge? How did they get control? How do they keep control? Why does this type of system work, or
not work? Who are the key rulers and their accomplishments? What is the structure of the military? Are there
significant wars or treaties?
Economic
What is their economic system? How people earn a living & supply themselves with the necessities and wants
(food, shelter, clothing and more); the production, distribution and exchange of goods and services (trade
networks)
Consider:
What is the major economic activity? Who does the labor and how do they profit?
Who owns the means of production? What is the basis & type for the economy(ies)? (agriculture, industry, labor
systems, bartering, capitalism, socialism) What technologies are being used?
Social
How people are organized & what are their interrelationships within the society
Consider:
How do people communicate? What is the class structure? What is the role each class plays in the society?
What is the family structure? What is the role of the men/husband? Of the women/wife? What educational
system do they have to maintain the structure? Who gets that education?
Part 2
Name____________________
Religion
Environment
Culture
Intellectual
Political- What type of
Economic
Social
 Belief
 Demography
 Values
 Philosophy
 Type
of system
 Class structure
R-E-C-I-P-E-S
UNIT I: FOUNDATIONS
EARLY
COMPLEX
SOCIETIES, 8000
B.C.E.-600
B.C.E.
government?
systems
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Mesopotamia
& IndoEuropean
Nile (Egypt
& Nubia)
Bantu &
Niger-Congo
Indus
China
Mesoamerica
& S.
America
Oceania
Population
Plants, animals,
disease
Alterations &
technology
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Activities &
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traditions
Art, architecture, 
literature, music 
Gender roles
Science &
technology
Thinkers & shakers
Education
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Leaders
State structure
Accomplishments
Military
Courts & Law
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Economic activity
Production,
distribution &
exchange
Industrialization &
Technologies
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Family structure
Gender roles
Education
Part 3
Unit I: Foundations c. 8000 B.C.E.-600 B.C.E.
Vocabulary: As you are reading, write a complete definition, the general
historical significance, and an example for each term, person, concept or
place. While these are listed under the headings of Chapters, these terms will
often show up in later chapters. Go back & add in the new information! You will
be quizzed on these terms.
Chapter 1
Neolithic
Domestication
Agricultural Revolution/Transition
Slash-and-burn cultivation
Obsidian
Catal Huyuk
Metallurgy
Chapter 2
Epic of Gilgamesh
Mesopotamia
Tigris
Euphrates
Sumer
Semitic
State
City-state
Ziggurats
Empire
Babylonia
Hammurabi’s code
Lex talionis
Patriarchal
Cuneiform
Hebrews
Israelites
Jews
Abraham
Moses
Palestine
King David
King Solomon
Monotheism
Yahweh
Jerusalem
Torah
Kingdom of Israel
Kingdom of Judah (Judea)
Prophets
Indo-European
Aryan
Chapter 3
Nile
Nubia
Cataract
Pharoah
Old Kingdom
Pyramid
Giza
Khufu (Cheops)
Kush
Middle Kingdom
Chapter 4
Harappan Society
Hindu Kush
Himalayas
Harappa
Mohejo-dara
Deforestation
Aryan
Sanskrit
New Kingdom
Meroe
Aswan
Hieroglyphs
Papyrus
Amon/ Amon-Re
Aten
Mummification
Bantu
Vedic Age
Raja
Caste
Varna
Brahman
Kshtriyas
Vaishyas
Shudras
Untouchables
Lawbook of Manu
Upanishads
Karma
Mosksha
Yoga
Chapter 5
Yellow River (Huang Ye)
Loess
Dynasty
Xia
Shang
Zhou
Mandate of Heaven
Oracle Bones
Book of Changes
Book of History
Book of Etiquette
Book of Songs
Yangzi River Valley
Chapter 6
Bering Strait (land bridge)
Mesoamerica
Maize
Olmec
Maya
Tikal
Temple of the Giant Jaguar
Maya Calendar
Popol Vuh
Bloodletting
Teotihuacan
Chavin (cult)
Oceania
Aboriginal
Lapita people
Part 4: World Map
Neatly label your world map with the land and water features listed below using the color
indicated.
Create a key and label the regions of the world. You must be familiar with these regions, as they
will be referred to throughout the course and exams.
Continents (red)
North America
South America
Australia
Europe
Antarctica
Asia
Africa
Oceans, Seas, Bays, Lakes (blue)
Atlantic Ocean (North &
South)
Pacific Ocean (North &
South)
Indian Ocean
Arctic Ocean
North Sea
Baltic Sea
English Channel
Norwegian Sea
Barents Sea
Mediterranean Sea
Adriatic Sea
Aegean Sea
Black Sea
Caspian Sea
Great Lakes
Red Sea
Persian Gulf
Arabian Sea
Bay of Bengal
South China Sea
East China Sea
Yellow Sea
Sea of Japan
Caribbean Sea
Hudson Bay
Cape of Good Hope
Cape Horn
Gulf of Guinea
Rio Grande River
Indus River
Yellow River (Huang He)
Yangtze River
Ganges River
Irrawaddy River
Mekong
Congo
Niger River
Rivers (blue)
Nile River
Tigris
Euphrates
Amazon River
Mississippi River
Deserts (use striped brown lines)
Gobi
Kalahari
Sahara
Thar
Sierra Madre
Mojave
Regions (create your own key)
North Africa
West Africa
East Africa
Central Africa
Southern Africa
Middle East (southwest Asia)
East Asia
Southeast Asia
South Asia
Latin America (includes Mesoamerica &
Caribbean)
North America
Europe
Russia
Oceania