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Advanced Placement World History- Syllabus
Mrs. Melissa Lee
James Clemens High School
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Course Description
The purpose of the AP World History course is to develop greater
understanding of the evolution of global processes and contacts in different
types of human societies. This goal is achieved through a combination of
selective factual knowledge and appropriate analytical skills. The course aims
to frame the encounters and interactions between major societies and their
effects on the global community. This course will approach world history by
looking at the common threads of humanity over time—trade, religion,
politics, society, and technology and investigate how these things have
changed and continue over time in different places.
We will use a thematic approach to discuss the relevant content and analyze
the historical evidence to interpret the periods of history. The content studied
is representative of an introductory college course in world history.
Students are required to take the AP World History exam given in the spring.
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The Six AP World History Themes: These themes will be the focus of
instruction as we move through the material.
 The relationship of change and continuity from 8,000 BCE to the
present.
 Impact of interaction among and within major societies.
 Impact of technology, economics, and demography on people
and the environment.
 Systems of social structure and gender structure.
 Cultural, religious, and intellectual developments.
 Changes in functions and structures of states and in attitudes
toward states and political identities, including the emergence of
the nation-state.
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Habits of Mind
The following are habits of mind that are addressed by the AP exam. Students
will develop these habits as we move throughout the course by engaging in
course assignments.
 Constructing and evaluating arguments: using evidence to make
plausible arguments
 Using documents and other primary data: developing the skills
necessary to analyze point of view and context, and to understand
and interpret information
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Understanding diversity of interpretations through analysis of
context, point of view and frame of reference
Seeing global patterns and processes over time and space while
connecting local developments to global ones
Comparing within and among societies, including comparing
societies’ reactions to global processes
Considering human commonalities and differences
Exploring claims of universal standards in relation to culturally
diverse ideas
Exploring the persistent relevance of world history to
contemporary
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Course Organization
The course is divided into 6 periods and these periods are further divided into
units of instruction taught over 85 days of 90 minute periods.
 8000 BCE – 600 BCE
8 days
 600 BCE – 600 CE
12 days
 600 CE – 1450
17 days
 1450 – 1750
15 days
 1750 – 1900
14 days
 1900 – present
14 days
 Review
5 days
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Course Texts
 Student Text book: Bentley, Jerry and Herbert Ziegler. Traditions and
Encounters: A Global History, Boston: Houghton Mifflin.
 Student Study Guide: Amsco Publication. World History: Preparing for
the Advanced Placement Examination.
 Supplemental Reader: Stearns, Peter, Stephen S.Gosch, and Erwin P.
Grieshaber, Documents in World History Vol 1. New York: Longman. 5th
edition.
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Course Assignments
 Homework- generally consists of reading assignments
periodically checked with multiple choice quizzes and short
essays at the beginning of class. Maps and document exercises
round out the homework grade.
 Essays- are required and prepare the student for the AP exam.
Students will master document analysis, comparative analysis,
and change –over- time analysis.
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Examinations -will be given at the end of units or when the
teacher deems necessary and will consists of multiple choice and
essays. (DBQ, Change over Time and Comparison).
Projects- consists of but not limited to reading a secondary work
of history and writing a historical review.
Course Outline- The course outline is written for 85 days of instruction with
90 minute of instruction each day. This allows for some “flex time” for
modifying the schedule. This outline does allow for a five day period prior to
the AP exam and class time for the exam.
a. AP World History- Typical Weekly Lesson Plan for each chapter
Students will:
1. read chapter material before coming to class, completing vocabulary and
guided reading.
2. receive and complete key terms, essay questions, big questions, and maps for
every chapter.
3. review previous chapter information in team competitions, emphasizing the
comparisons and contrasts between and among cultures and changes over time and
the reasons civilizations change and what remains.
5. receive and analyze documents and maps, emphasizing grouping, points of view,
thesis statements, global perspectives, explaining details and meanings, answering
all parts of the question, and asking for additional documents .
6. take a multiple-choice test on chapter material.
7. discuss the global concerns of selected material and core Grapes & Piemaster
Concepts.
8. complete charts on cultures for films, using Grapes & Piemaster topics.
9. write an essay (or an outline), covering a DBQ, a C/C or a COT topic.
Time period breakdown:
8000 BCE to 600 CE
I. Emergence of Complex societies to 600BCE
II. Ideas and Empires in the Axial Age 800 BCE to 200 CE
III. Global Patterns in Interactions and Exchange to 600CE
600 to 1450
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IV. The Islamic World and Christian Europe
V. Resurgent East Asia and Mongol Eurasia
VI. Global Patterns of Interactions and Exchange
1450-1750
VII. Maritime Expansion and European Transformation
VIII. The Americas, Africa and the Atlantic World
IX. Comparative Maritime and Land-Base Empires
1750- 1900
X. Imperialism and Territorial Expansion
XI. Ideologies, Revolutions, Reform,
XII. Industrializations
1900- Present
XIII. Global Conflict: The Crisis of the Old Order
XIV. Global Conflict: The Collapse of the Old Order
XV. Globalization at High Speed
Each topic or theme will be discussed in terms of the following:
GRAPES
Geography
Religion
Academic Achievement
Political
Economic
Social
PIE MASTER
Political
Intellectual
Economic
Migration
Art
Social
Technology
Environmental Interaction
Religion
Class Intro: AP World History- Importance of Encounter and Interaction
Geographic Regions (map regions)
Intro Grapes moving into Piemaster specifics
I. Unit One: 8000 BCE to 600 CE Agricultural/Nomadic societies
 River Civilizations
 Persia, Greeks, Gupta, Rome, Han, China, Bantu (Africa)
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Development of Religion and its diffusion
Test on Unit one: Multiple choice and comparative essay
II. Unit Two: 600 BCE to 1450
 Islam-Dar al Islam
 Byzantium/Medieval Europe
 Early Christian Europe
 Vikings and Polynesians
 China, Japan, Korea, Vietnam,
 Mongols
 Importance of Trade
 Begin DBQ seminarUnit is divided for test taking purposes into two separate tests: Multiple choice
and comparative essay, DBQ write a theses statement
III. Unit 3 1450-1750
 Renaissance
 Exploration
 Enlightenment
 Contact between Europe, Africa and Americas
 Empire building
Unit is divided for test taking purposes: Multiple choice, essay and DBQ
IV. Unit 4 1750-1914
 Imperialism and Territorial
Expansion
 Ideologies, Revolutions and Reform
 Transitional Ideologies
Unit is divided for test taking purposes: Multiple choice, essay and DBQ
V. Unit 5 1914- Present
 Dissolution of Global Empires
 Global War and Conflict
 Cold War and its Effects
 New Global Institutions
 Globalization
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Unit is divided for test taking purposes: Multiple choice, Comparative essay, DBQ,
Change over time question
AP World History--List of Historical Scholarship Materials
& art work divide by time period and or
theme.
Students read all or part of each selection and answer teacher-designed critical-thinking
questions (comparison and contrast and change overtime) and/or complete a document analysis
form and/or write an essay based on a collection of teacher-edited documents (DBQ). The
following readings are available in the student reader (Strayer), student textbook (Bentley),
online, supplemental textbooks and or provided to student by teacher (photocopies).
The Rise of Agriculture and Agricultural Civilizations(8000 B.C.E.1000 B.C.E.)
From Human Prehistory to the Early Civilizations
"The Epic of Gilgamesh"
"The Judgments of Hammurabi"
"Three Mortuary Texts (Egypt)"
The Classical Period (1000 B.C.E. - 500 C.E.)
Classical Civilization: China
"The Mandate of Heaven"
"The Book of Songs"
"The Classic of the Way and Virtue"
"The Analects"
"The Writings of Master Han Fei"
"The Yellow Emperor's Classic of
Medicine"
"Discourses on Salt and Iron"
"Lessons for Women"
"Five Robed Statues
Classical Civilization: India
"Indus, Mesopotamian and Cretan Seals"
"The Rig Veda"
"The Upanishads"
"The Bhagavad Gita"
"The Buddha-Setting in Motion the Wheel
of the Law"
"Shiva Nataraja"
"Rock and Pillar Edicts"
"The Laws of Manu"
"Travels"
"Three Bodhisattvas"
"The Bhakti Sutra"
Classical Civilization in the Mediterranean: Greece and Rome
"The Odyssey"
"Epistle to the Romans" St. Paul
"On the Sacred Disease"
"Letters Regarding Christians" Pliny
"History of the Peloponnesian War"
"Apologia", Tertullian
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"Apologia", Plato
"Three Hellenic Works of Art"
"Natural History"
"Against Apion"
"Gospel of St. Matthew"
"Ecclesiastical History", Eusebius
"Barberini Ivory"
"Church History", Rufinus of Aquileia
"The Gospel of Thomas"
The Classical Period: Directions, Diversities, and Declines by 500 B.C.E.
"Two Temple Reliefs"
"Four Hellenistic Sculptures"
"The Book of Genesis"
"The Aeneid"
"The Book of Deuteronomy"
"Agricola and Annals"
"The Book of Isaiah"
"Tales of Guanshiyin"
"Zarathustra"
"The Parable About the World-Ocean"
"The Bacchae"
The Postclassical Era (600 to 1750)
The First Global Civilization: The Rise and Spread of Islam
"Selected Writings", Maimonides
"The Quran"
"Gardens of the Righteous", Imam Nawawi
"The Life of the Messenger of God", Muhammad ibn Ishaq
"The Smoothed Path", Malik ibn Anas
"Creed Concerning the Imams", Ibn Babawayh al-Saduq
Abbasid Decline and the Spread of Islamic Civilization to South and Southeast Asia
"Book of Travels", Benjamin of Tudela
"The Deeds of Sultan Firuz Shah"
"Description of India", Abul Raihan al-Biruni
"Vikrama's Adventures" "Akbarnama", Abul
Fazl
African Civilizations and the Spread of Islam
"The Chronicle of the Seeker", Mahmud Kati
"Benin Saltcellar and Wall Plaque"
"Meadows of Gold", Abul-Hasan AN al-Masudi
"The Book of Routes and Realms", Abu Ubaydallah al-Bakri
"Ethiopian Royal Chronicle"
"Seated Female Figure"
"A Donation to Those Interested in Curiosities", Ibn Battuta
Civilization in Eastern Europe: Byzantium and Orthodox Europe
"Poems", al-Rumi
"The Pact of Ibn Muslama"
"The Pact of Umar"
"The Merits of the Turks and of the Imperial Army", Al-Jahiz
"Travels", Ibn Jubayr
"A Thousand and One Arabian Nights", Shahrazad
"The Mosaics of San Vitale"
"The Secret History" and "On the Buildings", Procopius
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"A Byzantine Icon of the Koimesis" and "A Dormition Miniature"
"The Jerusalem History", Baldric of Dol
"The Alexiad", Anna Comnena
"Annals", Nicetas Choniates
A New Civilization Emerges in Western Europe
"Pope Leo Ill's Lateran Mosaic"
"The Capitulary on Saxony" and "A Letter to Pope Leo III", Charles the Great
"A Report on the Embassy to Constantinople", Liudprand of Cremona
"Book of the Family", Leon Battista Albert!
"Woodcuts on Marriage", Erhard Schon and Hans Sebald Beham
"Unyoked is Best", Anna Bijns
The Americas on the Eve of Invasion
"Three Mayan Ceramic Sculptures"
"Book of the Gods and Rites", Diego Duran
"Chronicles", Pedro de Cieza de Leon
"An Anonymous Woodcut of 1511"
Reunification and Renaissance in Chinese Civilization: The Era of the Tang and Song Dynasties
"The Christian Monument", Bishop Adam
"Poems", Du Fu
"The Old Tang History"
"The Craft of Farming", Chen Pu
"Memorial on Buddhism", Han Yu
"A Biography of the Tripitaka Master", Huili
"A Record of Musings on the Eastern Capital"
"Lives of the Nuns", Shi Baochang
The Spread of Chinese Civilization: Japan, Korea, and Vietnam
"Chronicles of Japan"
"The Pillow Book", Sei Shonagon
"Chronicle of the Grand Pacification"
"Tales from Uji"
"The Kangnido"
The Last Great Nomadic Challenges: From Chinggis Khan to Timur
"A Description of Foreign Peoples", Zhau Rugua
"The Book of John Mandeville"
"Letter to Changchun", Chinggis Khan
"Journey to the Land of the Tartars", William of Rubruck
"Description of the World", Marco Polo
"Report", Friar Odoric of Pordenone
"Embassy to Tamerlane", Ruy Gonzalez de Clavijo
The West and the Changing World Balance
"The Chronicles of Guinea", Gomes de Azurara "The
Practice of Commerce", Francesco Pegolotti
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The World Shrinks (1450-1750)
The World Economy
"A Discourse on Western Planting", Richard Hakluyt
"Voyages From Holland to America", David Pieterzen Devries
"Memorandum on English Alliances" and "Memorandum to the King on Finances”,
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
The Transformation of the West (1450-1750)
"Table Talk", Martin Luther
"Decrees of the Council of Trent"
"Art as Protestant Propaganda" Hans Beham, and Lucas Cranach the Younger
"King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella, Agreements with Columbus, 1492"
"Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina", Galileo Galilei
"New Organon", Francis Bacon
"The Royal Academy and It Protectors" and "A Dissection at the Jardin des Plantes",
Sebastien Le Clerc "Treatise on Toleration", Voltaire
"Sketch of the Progress of the Human Mind", Marquis de Condorcet
"English Bill of Rights"
The Rise of Russia
"Edicts and Decrees", Peter the Great
"On the Corruption of Morals in Russia", Mikhail Shcherbaov
Early Latin America
"Compendium and Description of the West Indies", Antonio Vazquez de Espinosa
"General History of the Things of New Spain", Bernardino de Sahagun
"Encomienda Records From Nestalpa, 1547-1565"
"Complaint of the Indians of Tecama Against Juan Ponce De Leon"
Africa and the Africans in the Age of the Atlantic Slave Trade
"Letters to the King of Portugal", Nzinga Mbembad
"A Voyage to New Calabar River in the Year 1699", James Barbot
"Esmeraldo de Situ Orbis", Duarte Pacheo
"Eastern Ethiopia", Joao dos Santos
"A Journal of a Voyage made in the Hannibal of London in 1694”, Thomas Phillips
The Muslim Empires
"Turkish Letters", Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq
"Report to Pope Paul V", Father Paul Simon
"Memoirs", Jahangir
"Letter to Shah Ismail of Persia", Sultan Selim I
"Legal Opinions", Khayr al-Din Ramli
Asian Transitions in an Age of Global Change
"Meritorious Deeds at No Cost"
"The Overall Survey of the Ocean's Shores", Ma Huan
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"Journals", Matteo Ricci
"Closed Country Edict of 1635" and "Exclusion of the Portuguese, 1639”, Tokugawa
Iemitsu
"Travels in India", Jean-Baptiste Tavernier
"Common Sense Teachings for Japanese Children" and "Greater Learning for Women",
Kaibara and Token Ekiken
"On Strange Tales" and "On Merchants", Zhang Han
"Memorial to Emperor Ming Xizong", Yang Lien
"Laws Governing the Military Households", Tokugawa Hidetada
"Closed Country Edict of 1636", Tokugawa lemitsu
"Letter to the Dutch East India Company Board of Directors"
"Self-Portrait", Kangxi
Industrialization and Western Global Hegemony (1750-1914)
The Emergence of Industrial Society in the West, 1750-1914
"The Wealth of Nations", Adam Smith
"Cahier of the Third Estate of the City of Paris"
"Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen"
"Political Cartoons and Caricatures from the French Revolution"
Industrialization and Imperialism: The Making of the European Global Order
"The Interesting Narrative of Olaudah Equiano", himself
"Letter to William Pitt, 1759", Robert Clive
"Letter to Lord George Macartney, 1792", Sir Henry Dundas
"Edict on Trade with Great Britain", Emperor Qianlong
"Testimony Before Parliamentary Committees on Working Conditions in England
"Self-Help" and "Thrift", Samuel Smiles
"The Communist Manifesto", Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
"On the Origin of Species" and "The Descent of Man", Charles Darwin
"An Appeal Against Women's Suffrage", Mrs. Humphry Ward
"History of Germany in the Nineteenth Century" and "Historical and Political Writings",
Heinrich von Treitschke
"The Jews' State", Theodor Herzl
"Speech Before the French National Assembly", Jules Ferry
"Advertisements and Illustrations from British Books and Periodicals"
"Standard Treaty", Royal Niger Company
Industrialization and Imperialism: The Making of the European Global Order (continued)
"Petitions of King Ockiya and the Chiefs of Brass to Lord Derby, 1877" and
"Memorandum of the Brass Chiefs, 1895"
"His Story", Ndansi Kumalo
"Letter to Lord Amherst", Rammohun Roy
"The Azamgarh Proclamation"
"Edicts and Proclamations", King Chulalongkorn
"Letter to Emperor Tu Due" and "Last Message to his Administrators", Phan Than Gian
The Consolidation of Latin America (1830-1920)
"The Jamaica Letter", Simon Bolivar
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Civilizations in Crisis: The Ottoman Empire, the Islamic Heartlands, and Qing China
"The Book of Counsel For Viziers and Governors", Mehmed Pasha
"The History and Doctrines of the Wahhabis", Abdullah Wahhab
"Selections from his Writings", Usman dan Folio
"Memorandum to the Earl of Bathurst", Church of England Missionary Society
"Report to the Lieutenant Governor-General of Tasmania”
"Imperial Rescript", Sultan Abdul Mejid
"Letter to Hasan Shirazi", Sayyid Jamal ad-Din
"Announcement to the Arabs, Sone of Qahtan"
"Letter to Queen Victoria, 1839", Lin Zexu
"Memorandum to Emperor Xianfeng", Zeng Guofan
Russia and Japan: Industrialization Outside the West
"Some Observations on Merchants", Mitsui Takafusa
"A Secret Plan of Government", Honda Toshiaki
"Reflections on my Errors", Sakuma Shozan
"Letter to Mitsubishi Employees", Iwasaki Yataro
"Prints and Drawings, 1853-1887"
"What Is To Be Done", Lenin
The 20th Century in World History (1914 to the present)
Descent into the Abyss: World War I and the Crisis of European Global Order
"Popular Art and Poster Art From Germany, England, and Australia"
"Mud and Khaki Memoirs of an Incomplete Soldier", Henry S. Clapham
"Comments of the German Delegation to the Paris Peace Conference on the
Conditions of Peace, October 1919"
The World in the 1920's: Challenges to European Dominance
"The Three People's Principles and the Future of the Chinese People", Sun Yat-sen
"The Results of the First Five-Year Plan", Joseph Stalin
"Indian Home Rule", Mohandas Gandhi
The Great Depression and the Authoritarian Response
"Mein Kampf, Adolf Hitler
"Anniversary Statement", The Black Dragon Society
"Fundamental Principles of National Policy, 1936"
A Second Global Conflict and the End of the European World Order
"Memoirs", Rudolf Hoss
"The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb", Henry L. Stimson
"Recollections", Iwao Nakamura and Atsuko Tsujioka
Western Society and Eastern Europe in the Decades of the Cold War
"The Long Telegram", George Kennan
"Telegram, September 27, 1946", Nikolai Novikov
"Debate in the House of Commons, March 1947"
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Latin America: Revolution and Reaction into the 21st Century
"Latin America: Its Rise and Progress", Francisco Garcia Calderon
"Speech to the Nation", Lazaro Cardenas
"Final Document of the Third General Conference of the Latin American Episcopate, 1979"
Africa, the Middle East, and Asia in the Era of Independence
"Parable of the Eagle" James Aggrey
"Limbo", Leon G. Damas
"Prayer for Peace" Leopold Sedar Senghor
"Vultures" David Diop
"Social Conditions Among Bantu Women and Girls", Charlotte Maxeke
"Speech to the Congress of the People's Republican Party", Mustafa Kemal
"Toward the Light", The Muslim Brotherhood
"Editorial Against Dowry"
"Perestroika", Mikhail Gorbachev
Rebirth and Revolution: Nation-building in East Asia and the Pacific Rim
"Letter to the French Chamber of Deputies", Nguyen Thai Hoc
"Report on an Investigation of the Peasant Movement in Hunan" and "Strategic
Problems of China's Revolutionary War, Mao Zedong
"A Native of Yan'An", Cao Ming
"Letter to the Editor of Chinese Women", Wu Jinbo
"Speeches and Writings", Deng Xiaoping
Globalization and Resistance: World History (1990-2003)
"Islamic Government", Ruhollah Khomeini
"Editorial on Hinduism and Islam", Girilal Jain
"Declaration of Jihad Against Americans Occupying the Land of the Two Holy Mosques"
"The Last Night", Mohammed Atta
"Free Trade and the Decline of Democracy", Ralph Nader
"Globaphobia: Confronting Fears About Open Trade", Gary Burtless, Robert
Lawrence, Robert Litan, Robert Shapiro
The 21st Century in World History (the present)
2003 to Present Day
"World Development Indicators, 2003", World Bank
"World Slums", 2005, BBC
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