Download Advanced Placement World History 2011

Advanced Placement World History
2011-2012
Mrs. Patton
[email protected]
314.415.5656 (I only check messages before/after school)
Class Website: https://sites.google.com/site/parkwaynorthapworld/
Schedule:
1st: Plan
5th: AP World History
2nd: Ancient Civilizations
6th: Academic Lab (Freshmen – lab open after 9:50 AM)
3rd: World History
7th: AP World History (Second Lunch)
4th: World History
8th: Plan
Course Description
AP World History is a challenging two-semester course that is structured around the
investigation of selected themes woven into key concepts covering distinct chronological time
periods. This class is designed to be the equivalent of an introductory college world history
survey course. It has a three-fold purpose:
1. Students will be prepared for successful placement into higher-level college and
university history courses
2. Students will develop skills of analysis, critical thinking, prioritization, and time
management critical for success in the twenty-first century
3. Students will enjoy the study of world history
All students are strongly encouraged to show their mastery of the course goals in the AP World
History exam, given on the morning of May 17, 2012.
Class Materials (must be brought to class every block)
Textbook: Stearns, Peter, et al. World Civilizations: the Global Experience. 5th ed. New York:
Pearson, 2007.
Supplemental readings are an integral part of the class, and will be available from the class
website
Supplies:
* notebook (large)
* pens/pencils
* binder/folder (large, or use your own system of folders for this class)
* highlighters (at least four different colors are needed)
Responsibilities
Students are expected to bring all necessary materials to class on a daily basis. Students should
maintain a notebook for the class, which will be a repository for all class-related information.
Students are also responsible for reading and studying the textbooks, as well as all other
readings. Students will receive a daily calendar of the reading schedule for each six-week period,
and the schedule will also be available on the class website. While some of the textbook will be
discussed in detail throughout class discussion, seminars, and debates, not all of the required
material will be covered in class. Therefore, students are responsible for ALL MATERIAL
ASSIGNED, whether we discuss it in class or not.
Attendance and Make-Up Work
The pace of this class is accelerated and missing class time will likely cause difficulties.
However, it is understood that absences happen from time to time. Since calendars and readings
will be distributed for each six-week period, students are responsible for readings and
assignments upon their return. Students are strongly encouraged to anticipate absences to the
extent possible and plan ahead accordingly.
The AP World History Exam
The examination is three hours and five minutes in length, and consists of two sections: a fiftyfive minute multiple choice section and a 130-minute free response section. The multiple choice
section consists of eighty questions over fifty-five minutes; this results in approximately fortyfive seconds per question. The free response section begins with a mandatory ten minute reading
period. Students are advised to spend most of the ten minutes analyzing the documents and
planning their answer to the document-based essay question in Part A. Part B is an essay
requiring students to discuss continuity and change over time in a particular region. Part C is an
essay requiring students to compare similarities and differences of two regions in a time period
with regard to a particular issue. Students are advised to spend approximately forty minutes on
each essay.
In the multiple-choice section, approximately 5% of the questions deal with the time period from
8,000 BCE through 600 BCE. Roughly 15% of the questions will focus on the time period from
600 BCE – 600 CE. The time periods of 600 CE – 1450 CE, 1450 CE – 1750 CE, 1750 CE –
1900 CE, and 1900 CE – present will each consist of 20% of the questions.
The multiple-choice section counts for half of the examination grade, while the essay questions
account for the other half. The final exam score is from 1-5; a “passing” score is a 3 or higher
and individual colleges and universities may award college credit to passing scores. There is no
uniform policy with regard to awarding college credit. Please check with specific colleges and
universities for their individual policies.
Themes and AP World History
Students in this course must learn to view history thematically. The AP World History course
is organized around five overarching themes that serve as unifying threads throughout the
course, helping students to relate what is particular about each time period or society to a
“big picture” of history. The themes also provide a way to organize comparisons and analyze
continuity and change over time. Consequently, virtually all study of history in this class will
be tied back to these themes by utilizing a “SPICE” acronym.
Social--Development and transformation of social structures
• Gender roles and relations
• Family and kinship
• Racial and ethnic constructions
• Social and economic classes
Political--State-building, expansion, and conflict
• Political structures and forms of governance
• Empires
• Nations and nationalism
• Revolts and revolutions
• Regional, trans-regional, and global structures and organizations
Interaction between humans and the environment
• Demography and disease
• Migration
• Patterns of settlement
• Technology
Cultural--Development and interaction of cultures
• Religions
• Belief systems, philosophies, and ideologies
• Science and technology
• The arts and architecture
Economic--Creation, expansion, and interaction of economic systems
• Agricultural and pastoral production
• Trade and commerce
• Labor systems
• Industrialization
• Capitalism and socialism
Historical Thinking Skills
1. Crafting historical arguments from historical evidence
2. Chronological reasoning
3. Comparison and contextualization
4. Historical interpretation and synthesis
Concept Outline
Unit One
Period One: Technological and Environmental Transformations, to c. 600 BCE
Key Concept 1.1: Big Geography and the Peopling of the Earth
1. Archaeological evidence indicates that during the Paleolithic era, hunting-foraging bands of humans
gradually migrated from their origin in East Africa to Eurasia, Australia, and the Americas, adapting their
technology and cultures to new climate regions
Key Concept 1.2: The Neolithic Revolution and Early Agricultural Societies
1. Beginning about 10,000 years ago, the Neolithic Revolution led to the development of new and more
complex economic and social systems
2. Agriculture and pastoralism began to transform human societies
Key Concept 1.3: The Development and Interactions of Early Agricultural, Pastoral, and Urban
Societies
1. Core and foundational civilizations developed in a variety of geographical and environmental settings
where agriculture flourished
2. The first states emerged within core civilizations
3. Culture played a significant role in unifying states through laws, language, literature, religion, myths, and
monumental art
Period Two: Organization and Reorganization of Human Societies, c. 600 BCE – c. 600 CE
Key Concept 2.1: The Development and Codification of Religious and Cultural Traditions
1. Codifications and further developments of existing religious traditions provided a bond among the
people and an ethical code to live by
2. New belief systems and cultural traditions emerged and spread, often asserting universal truths
3. Belief systems affected gender roles. Buddhism and Christianity encouraged monastic life and
Confucianism emphasized filial piety
4. Other religious and cultural traditions continued parallel to the codified, written belief systems in core
civilizations
5. Artistic expressions, including literature and drama, architecture, and sculpture, show distinctive cultural
developments
Key Concept 2.2: The Development of States and Empires
1. The number and size of key states and empires grew dramatically by imposing political unity on areas
where previously there had been competing states
2. Empires and states developed new techniques of imperial administration based, in part, on the success of
earlier political forms
3. Unique social and economic dimensions developed in imperial societies in Afro-Eurasia and the
Americas
4. The Roman, Han, Persian, Mauryan, and Gupta empires created political, cultural, and administrative
difficulties that they could not manage, which eventually led to their decline, collapse, and transformation
into successor empires or states
Key Concept 2.3: Emergence of Transregional Networks of Communication and Exchange
1. Land and water routes became the basis for transregional trade, communication, and exchange networks
in the Eastern Hemisphere
2. New technologies facilitated long-distance communication and exchange
3. Alongside the trade in goods, the exchange of people, technology, religious and cultural beliefs, food
crops, domesticated animals, and disease pathogens developed across far-flung networks of communication
and exchange
Unit Two
Period Three: Regional and Transregional Interactions, c. 600 CE – c. 1450
Key Concept 3.1: Expansion and Intensification of Communication and Exchange Networks
1. Improved transportation technologies and commercial practices led to an increased volume of trade, and
expanded the geographical range of existing and newly active trade networks
2. The movement of peoples caused environmental and linguistic effects
3. Cross-cultural exchanges were fostered by the intensification of existing, or the creation of new,
networks of trade and communication
4. There was continued diffusion of crops and pathogens throughout the Eastern Hemisphere along the
trade routes
Key Concept 3.2: Continuity and Innovation of State Forms and Their Interactions
1. Empires collapsed and were reconstituted; in some regions new state forms emerged
2. Interregional contacts and conflicts between states and empires encouraged significant technological and
cultural transfers
Key Concept 3.3: Increased Economic Productive Capacity and Its Consequences
1. Innovations stimulated agricultural and industrial production in many regions
2. The fate of cities varied greatly, with periods of significant decline, and with periods of increased
urbanization buoyed by rising productivity and expanding trade networks
3. Despite significant continuities in social structures and in methods of production, there were also some
important changes in labor management and in the effect of religious conversion on gender relations and
family life
Unit Three
Period Four: Global Interactions, c. 1450 – c. 1750
Key Concept 4.1: Globalizing Networks of Communication and Exchange
1. In the context of the new global circulation of goods, there was an intensification of all existing regional
trade networks that brought prosperity and economic disruption to the merchants and governments in the
trading regions of the Indian Ocean, Mediterranean, Sahara, and overland Eurasia
2. European technological developments in cartography and navigation built on previous knowledge
developed in the classical, Islamic, and Asian worlds, and included the production of new tools,
innovations in ship designs, and an improved understanding of global wind and current patterns – all of
which made transoceanic travel and trade possible
3. Remarkable new transoceanic maritime reconnaissance occurred in this period
4. The new global circulation of goods was facilitated by royal chartered European monopoly companies
that took silver from Spanish colonies in the Americas to purchase Asian goods for the Atlantic markets,
but regional markets continued to flourish in Afro-Eurasia by using established commercial practices and
new transoceanic shipping services developed by European merchants
5. The new connections between the Eastern and Western hemispheres resulted in the Columbian Exchange
6. The increase in interactions between newly connected hemispheres and intensification of connections
within hemispheres expanded the spread and reform of existing religions and created syncretic belief
systems and practices
7. As merchants’ profits increased and governments collected more taxes, funding for the visual and
performing arts, even for popular audiences, increased
Key Concept 4.2: New Forms of Social Organization and Modes of Production
1. Traditional peasant agriculture increased and changed, plantations expanded, and demand for labor
increased. These changes both fed and responded to growing global demand for raw materials and finished
products
2. As new social and political elites changed, they also restructured new ethical, racial, and gender
hierarchies
Key Concept 4.3: State Consolidation and Imperial Expansion
1. Rulers used a variety of methods to legitimize and consolidate their power
2. Imperial expansion relied on the increased use of gunpowder, cannons, and armed trade to establish large
empires in both hemispheres
3. Competition over trade routes, state rivalries, and local resistance all provided significant challenges to
state consolidation and expansion
Unit Four
Period Five: Industrialization and Global Integration, c. 1750 – c. 1900
Key Concept 5.1: Industrialization and Global Capitalism
1. Industrialization fundamentally changed how goods were produced
2. New patterns of global trade and production developed and further integrated the global economy as
industrialists sought raw materials and new markets for the increasing amount and array of goods produced
in their factories
3. To facilitate investments at all levels of industrial production, financiers developed and expanded various
financial institutions
4. There were major developments in transportation and communication
5. The development and spread of global capitalism led to a variety of responses
6. The ways in which people organized themselves into societies also underwent significant
transformations in industrialized states due to the fundamental restructuring of the global economy
Key Concept 5.2: Imperialism and Nation-State Formation
1. Industrializing powers established transoceanic empires
2. Imperialism influenced state formation and contraction around the world
3. New racial ideologies, especially Social Darwinism, facilitated and justified imperialism
Key Concept 5.3: Nationalism, Revolution, and Reform
1. The rise and diffusion of Enlightenment thought that questioned established traditions in all areas of life
often preceded the revolutions and rebellions against existing governments
2. Beginning in the eighteenth century, peoples around the world developed a new sense of commonality
based on language, religion, social customs and territory. These newly imagined national communities
linked this identity with the borders of a state, while governments used this idea to unite diverse
populations
3. Increasing discontent with imperial rule propelled reformist and revolutionary movements
4. The global spread of European political and social thought and the increasing number of rebellions
stimulated new transnational ideologies and solidarities
Key Concept 5.4: Global Migration
1. Migration in many cases was influenced by changes in demography in both industrialized and
unindustrialized societies that presented challenges to existing patterns of living
2. Migrants relocated for a variety of reasons
3. The large-scale nature of migration, especially in the nineteenth-century, produced a variety of
consequences and reactions to the increasingly diverse societies on the part of migrants and the existing
populations
Unit Five
Period Six: Accelerating Global Change and Realignments, c. 1900 to the Present
Key Concept 6.1: Science and the Environment
1. Researchers made rapid advances in science that spread throughout the world, assisted by the
development of new technology
2. As the global population expanded at an unprecedented rate, humans fundamentally changed their
relationship with the environment
3. Disease, scientific innovations, and conflict led to demographic shifts
Key Concept 6.2: Global Conflicts and Their Consequences
1. Europe dominated the global political order at the beginning of the twentieth century, but both landbased and transoceanic empires gave way to new forms of transregional political organization by the
century’s end
2. Emerging ideologies of anti-imperialism contributed to the dissolution of empires and the restructuring
of states
3. Political changes were accompanied by major demographic and social consequences
4. Military conflicts occurred on an unprecedented global scale
5. Although conflict dominated much of the twentieth century, many individuals and groups – including
states – opposed this trend. Some individuals and groups, however, intensified the conflicts
Key Concept 6.3: New Conceptualizations of Global Economy, Society, and Culture
1. States responded in a variety of ways to the economic challenges of the twentieth century
2. States, communities, and individuals became increasingly interdependent, a process facilitated by the
growth of institutions of global governance
3. People conceptualized society and culture in new ways; some challenged old assumptions about race,
class, gender, and religion, often using new technologies to spread reconfigured traditions
4. Popular and consumer culture became global