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AP World History – 2016-2017
Instructor: Dr. Laura Astorian, Ed.D.
Wheeler High School – School Code: 112010
Room 2042
School email: [email protected]
Web Page: http://astorianpsych.info
School phone: 770-578-3266
School address: Wheeler High School, 375 Holt Road, Marietta, GA 30068
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Course Materials:
Issued Textbook:
a) Stearns, Peter. World Civilizations: The Global Experience. Fifth Edition. Norton Publishing
Company. 1999.
Primary Sources (Instructor Use):
a) Andrea, Alfred and Overfield, James. The Human Record: Sources of Global History. Fourth Edition.
Houghton Mifflin. 2001.
b) Brooks, Jeffrey and Chernyavskiy, Georgiy. Lenin and the Making of the Soviet State: A Brief History
with Documents. Bedford/St. Martins. 2007.
c) Lualdi, Katherine. Sources of The Making of the West: People’s and Cultures, Vols. 1 & 2. Bedford/St.
Martin’s. 2009.
d) Riley, Kevin. Worlds of History: A Comparative Reader 4 th Ed., Vols. 1 & 2. Bedford/St. Martin’s.
2010.
e) Strayer, Robert. Ways of the World: A Brief Global History with Sources. Bedford/St. Martin’s. 2011.
Outside Readings:
a) Harman, Chris. A People’s History of the World. Verso, 2008.
b) Hochschild, Adam. King Leopold’s Ghost. Mariner books, 1999.
c) Hoff, Benjamin. The Tao of Pooh. Penguin, 1994.
d) Standage, Tom. A History of the World in 6 Glasses. Walker & Company, 2005.
II. General Information about World History
The Course:
a) AP World History is a global-centered course that covers the basic developments and interactions
among the major cultures of the world. The class is taught from a global perspective and covers far
more than Western history. Knowledge of the world as a whole is cultured and expected. Minor
historical trivia is not the focus of this course, but instead large-scale change and historical thinking.
b) Historical thinking and reasoning skills will be both developed and required. These include:
 Crafting Historical Arguments from Historical Evidence
 Chronological Reasoning including analyzing patterns of continuity and change and periodization
 Comparison and Contextualization
 Historical Interpretation and Synthesis
 Primary Source Analysis
c) Major history themes throughout the course will be emphasized. Understanding of each theme must be
demonstrated in each unit. A variety of activities will assess this understanding with a simple example
being the writing of a thematic change-over-time essay or the creation of a graphical chart including
each of the themes. The five themes are:
 Interactions between humans and the environment
 Development of interaction of cultures
 State-building, expansion, and conflict
 Creation, expansion, and interaction of economic systems
 Development and transformation of social structures
d) AP World History is for serious students. Students must be able to devote focused nightly study to
difficult and complex material. Themes of study include potentially offensive material such as
discrimination, extreme violence, sexuality, and religion. Students are expected to approach the course
in a studious manner.
e) AP World History students must develop good historical skills by writing college level essays from
three categories: document-based essays, change-over-time essays and comparative essays. Students
will be graded on these essays as College Board grades them. College Board rubrics will be used as
the grading rubric.
III. Class Expectations:
AP World History is a thematic study of the world’s history from 20,000 BCE to the present. This course requires
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Nightly reading and outlining of the textbook. The entire textbook will be read over the course of the
semester. Reading is the primary homework students of this class receive.
The reading of four “outside reading” books, one of which was assigned for summer reading
Solid performance on highly challenging tests
Strong writing skills
Analysis of primary documents
Students enrolling in this class should enjoy history and have performed exceedingly well in previous social
studies and literature classes. This course can be enjoyable, but the primary responsibility for learning rests on
the student. Students and parents should be aware that enrolling in this course equivocates to making an extensive
time-commitment to history. This class is based upon large volumes of reading, which may take students
anywhere from 20 minutes to a few hours per night, depending on reading speed and ability. Factual information
is expected to be gained through reading; class is for reinforcing knowledge, building patterns, practicing
historical thinking skills, and analyzing primary source documents.
Classroom Guidelines:
Attendance - In order to cover all the material in time for the national exam, we are on a tight
schedule. Your attendance is necessary. In the event that you are absent, it is the student’s responsibility to
obtain and make-up any work missed in a timely fashion. Students are required to follow campus and
district policies regarding absence notification. Truancies will be referred to an administrator and no credit
will be received for any work missed.
You are expected to be present when the bell rings. If you are late, I will not repeat information already
covered or extend time for the assignment in progress.
Make-up Work, Late Work, and Homework - Make-up tests and quizzes should be taken within one
week of the original exam/quiz date. If not made up by the time, a zero will be given for the test or quiz.
Classwork and homework are due the next class period following an absence. It is the student’s
responsibility to obtain any missed work as soon as possible. Failure to obtain assignments does not excuse
you from tests, quizzes, or due dates. It is entirely the student’s responsibility to see that work is kept
current. I will NOT hunt you down to remind you of missing assignments.
Homework is due at the beginning of the class period unless otherwise notified. Please keep in mind that
homework constitutes up to a third of your six weeks average.
IV. Grading Policy:
1. Grades will be determined on the following percentages:
 Summative: Tests/Essays, Projects: 60%
 Textbook Notes: 5%
 Formative: Quizzes, Homework, Classwork: 20%
 Final Exam: 15%
2. Tests will be given at the end of each unit. A DBQ, FRQ, or SRQ will be given as part of each unit
test.
3. All students are encouraged to take the AP exam in May. All students, as per WHS policy, must
take the final exam or an alternative final exam if eligible.
IV. Teaching Strategies
 Lectures – Full 90-minute lectures tend to be less productive than balanced classes. This
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fact requires the student to be an active learner, willing to participate in discussions,
activities, presentations, and debates.
Document Analysis – Students are expected to read and interpret primary and secondary
sources. Students will interpret the context, purpose, point of view, and audience of all
primary sources covered in the class. Secondary sources will be compared against one
another to develop understanding of historical viewpoints.
Students use evidence from tables, charts, graphs and maps related to events such as the
Opium Wars, cotton manufacturing, the silver trade, population changes, disease, and the
global movement of laborers.
Historical Problems – Students are expected to respond to historical problems presented by
the teacher. These will be group activities requiring the use of multiple historical skills
including primary source analysis, periodization, contextualization, comparison, and
crafting arguments using historical evidence. Student responses will take the shape of
spoken arguments or multimedia presentations.
Essay/Exams – Students will write AP style essays throughout the semester. Emphasis will
be given to the development of good theses and strong argumentation. Students are
expected to master three types of essays: comparison, change-over-time, and documentbased.
2. Unit 1: 8000 BCE-600 CE (SSWH 1-6)
 January 4 – January 22nd
 Key Concepts
 Big Geography and the Peopling of the Earth
 The Neolithic Revolution and Early Agricultural Societies
 The Development and Interactions of Early Agricultural, Pastoral, and Urban
Societies
 The Development and Codification of Religious and Cultural Traditions
 The Development of States and Empires
 Emergence of Transregional Networks of Communication and Exchange
 Reading Assignments:
 Stearns chapters 1-5
 Harman part 1
 In-Class Sources
 Diamond, Jared The Worst Mistake in the History of the Human Race
 Gilgamesh, The Epic of
 Hammurabi’s Code
 Indian Seals, Mesopotamian Seals, and Cretan Seals (images)
 Rig Veda, The
 Population Statistics
 Buddha, The Teachings of
 Matthew, The Gospel of
 Confucius, The Analects
 Hippocrates, On the Sacred Disease
 Three Hellenic Works of Art (Visual)
 Four Hellenistic Sculptures
 Asoka, Rock and Pillar Edicts
 Sample Student Expectations:
 Describe the causes and consequences of the development of agriculture
 Compare the rise of early civilizations (Mesopotamia; Egypt, The Indus River
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Valley, and Shang China)
Discuss the findings of anthropologists and linguists on tracing the migrations of
Bantu and Polynesian speakers
Interpret the meanings of genetic findings of natives of Madagascar
Discuss the impact of technology on civilizations and peoples
Evaluate the periodization 8000BCE – 600 BCE and period terms such as
Ancient, Paleolithic, Neolithic, Bronze Age and the nature of Civilization
Compare Secondary and Classical Civilizations (Chinese civilizations through
the Han Dynasty; Early India; Greece and Rome; Egypt, Kush and Axum; Ghana
and Mali; Early Mesoamerican and South American civilizations)
Compare the development of major world religions
Examine continuity and change in the decline and fall of the major classical
civilizations (Rome, Gupta India, and Han China)
Evaluate the Periodization 600 BCE – 600 CE
Historical Dating Systems and Periodization
Comparing Historical Interpretations (Diamond’s The Worst Mistake in the
History of the Human Race vs. Harman’s A People’s History of the World)
Writing Theses
Primary Source Analysis
Using Historical Evidence
The Comparative Essay
Analyzing Documents within Known Historical Context
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Comparing historical viewpoints (Stearns vs. Harman and Gibbon’s Decline and
Fall of the Roman Empire vs. Harman)
The Document Based Question
 Assessments
 Quizzes on PHotW Readings
 AP Insight Quizzes
 Tao of Pooh Essay
 Multiple-Choice Test
 Document-Based Question
3. Unit 2: 600 CE – 1450 CE (SSWH 5-10)
 January 23rd 1-February 23rd
 Key Concepts
 Expansion and Intensification of Communication and Exchange Networks
 Continuity and Innovation of State Forms and Their Interactions
 Increased Economic Productive Capacity and Its Consequences
 Reading Assignments
 Stearns chapters 6-15
 Harman part 3 and 4
 In-Class Sources
 The Nestorian Stele (images and text)
 Quran, The
 A Thousand and One Arabian Nights
 Chen Pu The Craft of Farming
 The Mosaics of San Vitale (images)
 Population Statistics – World’s Largest Cities
 Sample Student Expectations:
 Identify the impacts of long-distance trade on both global and local communities
 Describe the causes and effects of the development and spread of Islam
 Discuss continuity and change in the conversion of much of Africa to Islam and
Christianity
 Compare Byzantine and Latin points of view on the crusades
 Identify the cause and consequences of the rise of the Mongol Empire and the
Pax Mongolica
 Identify the artistic advancements made during the renaissance as determined by
prominent art historians.
 Evaluate the Periodization 600 – 1450CE, Evaluate period terms such as
Medieval, Dark Ages, Golden Age of Islam, Han and T’ang (as applied to
culture)
 Other Skills:
 The Change-Over Time Essay
 Analyzing Documents within Known Historical Context
 Assessments:
 Quizzes on PHotW Readings
 AP Insight Quizzes
 Multiple-choice Test
 Document Based Question
4. Unit 3: 1450 – 1750 CE (SSWH 10-14):
 February 24th 4- March 24st
 Key Concepts
 Global Networks of Communication and Exchange
 New Forms of Social Organization and Modes of Production
 State Consolidation and Imperial Expansion
 Reading Assignments:
 Stearns chapters 16-22
 Harman part 5
 In-Class Sources
 Ibn Battuta Long Distance Travel Beyond the Mongol Peace
 Marco Polo Description of the World
 Zhao Rugua Description of Barbarous Peoples
 Luther, Martin Table Talk
 The Gokstad Ship (image)
 Sample Student Expectations:
 Compare the travels of Marco Polo and Ibn Battuta
 Explain the causes and consequences of the European Renaissance, Reformation
and the Scientific Revolution
 Explain the causes and consequences of European Exploration of the Americas,
the Columbian exchange, and other forced labor systems
 Compare African slavery and the Encomienda system
 Identify historical patterns among the early European colonies in the New World
 Demonstrate the impact of trade and empires along the Silk road
 Explain how both Ming and Qing China fall into the patterns of the Mandate of
Heaven
 Compare the reactions of the Japanese Tokugawa Period and Peter the Great’s
Russia and explain the differing reactions to Western power.
 Evaluate the periodization 1450-1750CE and periodic terms such as the
Renaissance, Scientific Revolution, Age of Exploration
 Other Skills
 Comparing Historical Viewpoints (Peter The Great’s Edicts and Decrees vs.
Mikhail Shcherbatov’s On the Corruption of Morals in Russia)
 Assessments:
 Quizzes on PHotW Readings
 AP Insight Readings
 Multiple-Choice Test
 FRQ
5. Unit 4: 1750-1914 CE (SSWH 14-16)
 March 27th – April 21st
 Key Concepts
 Globalizing Networks of Communication and Exchange
 New Forms of Social Organization and Modes of Production
 State Consolidation and Imperial Expansion
 Reading Assignments:
 Stearns chapters 23-27
 Harman part 6
 Hochschild King Leopold’s Ghost
 In-Class Sources
 Voltaire A Treatise on Toleration
 Smith, Adam The Wealth of Nations
 Napoleon Crossing the Alps (image)
 Bolivar, Simon The Jamaica Letter
 Summary of a Conversation with Osei Bonso, King of Asante
 Wahab, Abdullah The History and Doctrines of Wahabis
 Envoys from Vassal States and Foreign Countries Presenting Tribute to the
emperor, China (image)
 Marx and Engles The Communist Manifesto
 Darwin, Charles On the Origins of Species and the Descent of Man
 Sample Expectations:
 Compare major revolutions: American, French, Latin America, Haitian, Chinese
 Describe the consequences of the Industrial Revolution
 Describe changes brought by European Imperialism in Africa and Asia while
contrasting the viewpoints of the colonizers and the colonized.
 Compare the impact of European dominance in Australia and Polynesia
 Describe the causes of the rise of 19th Century Nationalism and the effects on
individual ethnicities as well as international tensions.
 Compare the reactions of Qing China and Meiji Japan to Western Industry and
the resulting consequences.
 Evaluate the periodization 1750-1900CE, and terms such as the Enlightenment,
The Age of Revolutions, The Age of Imperialism
 Other Skills:
 Comparing Historical Viewpoints (Oladudah Equiano’s The Interesting
Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano Written by Himself vs. James Barbot’s
A Voyage to the New Calabar River)
 Additional Document Analysis and the Comparative Essay
 Assessments:
 Quizzes on PHotW Readings
 AP Insight Quizzes
 Multiple Choice Test
 FRQ
6. Unit 5: 1914 – the Present (SSWH 16-21):
 April 24th – May 11th
 Key Concepts
 Industrialization and Global Capitalism
 Imperialism and Nation-State Formation
 Nationalism, Revolution, and Reform
 Global Migration
 Reading Assignments:
 Stearns chapters 28-36
 In-Class Sources
 Popular Art circa World War I
 1918 Flu Epidemic Death Rates (Statistics)
 Hitler, Adolf Mein Kampf
 Bombing of Tokyo and Other Cities (Statistics)
 Gandhi Indian Home Rule
 Gorbachev, Mikhail Perestroika
 Muralist Paintings
 Bin Laden, Osama Declaration of Jihad against Americans Occupying the
Land of the Two Holy Mosques
 World Development Indicators
 Sample Expectations:
 Describe the military and cultural developments of World Wars I and II and the
period between the wars
 Characterize the impact of the First and Second World War on Europe, North
America, South America, Asia, and Oceana
 Assess the Concept of 20th Century Genocide and connect this broad idea to
specific circumstances
 Connect the decolonization of individual nations in Africa and Asia to the global
trend of decolonization
 Describe the causes and consequences of The Russian Revolution and the Cold
War
 Compare the development of East Asia and Latin America from 1900 to Present
 Identify the causes of post-colonial state successes and failures as developed by
political scientists.
 Assess the validity of the superpower-dominated Cold War narrative
 Analyze quantitative data concerning demographic changes in the Americas,
Europe, Asia, and Africa during the 20th century (source: worldfactbook, the
Economist)
 Other Skills
 Comparing Historical Viewpoints (George Kennan’s The Long Telegram vs.
Nikolai Novikov’s Telegram, September 27, 1946)
 Assessments
 King Leopold’s Ghost Reading Packet
 AP Insight Quizzes
 Multiple Choice Test
 Free Response Test