Download AP World summer Assignment 2015

AP World summer Assignment
2015-16
Welcome to AP World History!
Advanced Placement World History (APWH) is a thematic, college-level course designed to familiarize
students with the broad patterns of the human experience. Students will concentrate on change and
continuity over time, the unique aspects of social institutions and the common characteristics that tie them
together, and the dynamics of how cultural interactions have shaped history since recorded history. Students
are charged with the role of historian and will engage in a plethora of activities that encourage critical
thinking and hone their ability to debate established historical interpretations and express their educated
views using primary source documents. Throughout the academic year, students will actively compare
cultures and look for historical patterns that stretch across units and tie all human populations together
throughout history. The culmination of this course is the AP World History Exam, Thursday, May 12th, which
has the potential to award students with college credit for successfully demonstrating their superior
understanding of the past.
The primary purpose of this summer assignment is to help students acquire the base knowledge they will
need to begin the course next year. It has three parts. Be sure to read and follow the instructions precisely.
Part I: A History of the World in 6 Glasses--**Due in Frau Schmid’s mailbox
or inbox by 9 am. August 24th ([email protected])**
This year’s AP World Summer Reading Assignment involves reading A History of the World in 6 Glasses by Tom
Standage. The book is available in paperback at local bookstores (like Barnes & Noble) and online at Amazon.
You can also find this book at used book sources (on-line and locally) which will save you some money. While it is
preferable to have your own copy so that you can make notes in the margin or underline, you can also find it at our
high school library and at the local public library. Whatever you do, DO NOT wait until the last week of summer
vacation to try to get a copy of the book and do the assignment!
Since AP World History focuses on big ideas, concepts, themes, and trends that have shaped world history and our
world today, 6 Glasses is an excellent book to get our minds thinking in this direction. The author takes an
innovative approach to world history by looking at the development of world civilizations through the prism of the
beverages that people drank in various time periods. These are (in chronological order): beer, wine, spirits, coffee,
tea and Coca-Cola.
Disclaimer: The use of this book as a summer reading assignment in no way represents any endorsement by Frau
Schmid or the Phillipsburg School District of the use or misuse of any of these beverages, alcoholic, caffeinated or
otherwise. The book merely offers an innovative and (hopefully) interesting perspective to initiate our year-long
discussion of world history.
Our purpose in reading the book is to get a sense of how civilizations and cultures develop and how numerous
forces (political, technological, economic, social, religious, cultural, ecological) all affect even the most mundaneseeming aspects of people’s daily lives. When you are drinking a coke on a hot day this summer, it is not an
accident. There are historical forces at work that have put that can of coke in your hand. This book explores those
forces. For this assignment, you will need to read the book and answer the following questions. Your work should
be typed, double-spaced with standard margins, and be in complete sentences in your own words. Your answers
should be at least a substantive paragraph in length, typed.
1. The text is organized in six sections that each considers a beverage and the time period during which that
beverage was significant. Historians identify time periods in many different ways and they often disagree
about the best way to identify a time period. Use the text to determine the time periods covered by each
section of the text. (You may use specific dates or important events to identify the time period, and I
expect that many of you will have different responses.) Use the following examples as models:
a. World War II began in 1939 and ended in 1945. OR
b. World War II began with Germany’s invasion of Poland and ended with Japan’s surrender to the
United States.
**Your answer here should be fairly short. For example: The Age of Beer began in (date) or with (event)
and ended with in (date) or with (event). This is all; you should have 6 statements, one for each
beverage.*
2. Standage wrote that “beer was not invented but discovered.” (11) Explain the reasoning behind this
statement. Using this reasoning, evaluate the origins of the other five beverages as either “discoveries” or
“inventions”.
3. The Greek symposion and the Roman convivium represent two different views of civilization. Use
Standage’s descriptions of symposion and convivium to construct your own definition of “civilization”.
4. Standage wrote that spirits were “the result of the convergence of materials, people, and technologies
from around the world, and the product of several intersecting historical forces.” (111) Identify the
materials, technologies, and historical forces that are discussed in the text.
5. Identify the similarities and differences between a coffeehouse, a symposion, and a convivium.
6. Standage titled Chapter 8 “The Coffeehouse Internet.” (151) Explain the term using evidence drawn from
the text.
7. “The rise of tea was entangled with the growth of Britain as a world power and set the stage for expansion
of its commercial and imperial might”. Agree or disagree with this statement based on your reading of the
text. Explain.
8. Use evidence from the chapters on Coca-Cola to explain the meaning of “globalization”.
9. Standage claimed that “the six beverages in this book demonstrate the complex interplay of different
civilizations and the interconnectedness of the world cultures”. Evaluate this claim and defend your
position. *Make sure you have a clear topic sentence that states your position and make sure you defend
that position.*
10. Often times, a text is as important for what it does not say as it is for what it does say. Think about the
many beverages that were left out of A History of the World in Six Glasses and consider why Standage
chose to leave water and milk out of the story
Part II: Human Pre-History Exploration—Due first day of school, Aug. 31st
While the AP World History curriculum technically begins firmly in the Neolithic Era (c.8000 BCE-3500 BCE), it
is important to have a base knowledge of Upper Paleolithic Era (c.40,000 BCE to c.10,000 BCE; also known as
the "Stone Age") patterns before the rise of sedentary agriculture. For thousands of years leading up to the
Neolithic Revolution, human beings relied on a hunter-gatherer form of existence – a way of life that still exists
today in parts of South America, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Southeast Asia. While hunting and gathering may
seem to some today as a brutish existence, it has worked remarkably well and actually enjoyed some
advantages over early sedentary farming life. The survival skill set that early humans developed during the
Paleolithic Era allowed human beings to spread throughout the globe at a surprising pace. By 12,000 BCE
human beings could be found on six of the world's seven continents.
The purpose of this section is to introduce you to the movement of humans during the Paleolithic period, the
hunter-gatherer lifestyle they employed to survive, and the slow transition toward sedentary agriculture during
the Neolithic Revolution. Please note that this section will require a mixture of readings from the internet and a
recent article from National Geographic, "The Greatest Journey". You will need to respond to the THREE
questions listed below after you have read ALL of the material. Please note that the questions are designed to
make you think critically about what you have read and combine multiple sources to arrive at a single, well
written answer. In other words, you cannot simply hunt down a passage or two to find an answer – you have
to read and understand the entire material to create an answer! This sort of thinking will define your AP
experience in the coming year. Remember, if you are ever completely stumped, please email me for help.
Make sure you USE YOUR OWN WORDS!
Each answer will likely be at least a page in length, typed and double spaced, if it is to adequately
address the entire question. Readings & Exploratories--Please complete them in the following
order:
1. "The Greatest Journey", National Geographic, March 2006. (http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2006/03/humanjourney/shreeve-text/1) Please note that this article is 5 pages and you will need to click “Continue” at the bottom to
continue reading the article.
2. An excellent map that accompanies the article can be found online at
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0603/feature2/images/mp_download.2.pdf
3. Explore these websites: http://www.bradshawfoundation.com/journey/, http://www.becominghuman.org/, and
https://genographic.nationalgeographic.com/human-journey/ to learn more about early humans and their migrations.
4. Read "Human Life in the Era of Hunters and Gatherers" developed by History-World.org at http://historyworld.org/paleolithic2.htm
Question for Readings 1-4 (this question should require about ½-1 typed page to answer.)
A. Explain how human technological and social development fostered the rapid movement of people
throughout the globe during the latter phases of the Paleolithic Era (c.60,000 BCE to 12,000 BCE). Be sure to
include how these developments allowed early hunter-gatherers to cope with various environmental pressures
and challenges as they moved from continent to continent.
Readings & Exploratories--Please complete them in the following order:
5. Read "Agriculture and the Origins of Civilization: The Neolithic Revolution" developed by History-World.org at
http://history-world.org/neolithic.htm
6. Read "The Neolithic Transition" developed by History-World.org at http://history-world.org/neolithic1.htm
Questions for Readings 5-6 (each question should require about ½ - 1 typed page to answer)
B. Compare the advantages and disadvantages of adopting a sedentary agricultural lifestyle. To answer this
question, you will need to look at the factors that motivated formerly nomadic peoples to settle down and
adopt a sedentary lifestyle. What were some of the benefits? Were there any negative consequences of
settling down? How did the social roles of men & women change--especially for women? Explain which lifestyle
YOU feel is the most advantageous and why.
C. How does the spread of agriculture during the Neolithic period compare to the spread of human beings
during the Paleolithic Era? (In other words, how do the geographic patterns of agriculture's spread differ from
that of earlier human movements? Did agriculture spread from Africa as humans had, or were there other
points of origin?)
Part III: World Geography—Due first day of school, August 31st
The map below depicts the major world regions used in the AP World History Course. You MUST become familiar with these
large regions as a prerequisite to a serious exploration of World History.
1. What are the names of the fifteen APWH regions on the map? You will need to do an Internet search in order to discover
this information. Write the answers in the chart below. Also, for each region on the map, write down the name of one country
in that region. (I will post this on my website so that you can see the different colors.)
Colors and Tips
1. Royal Blue
2. Orange
3. Brown
4. Light Green
5. Lavender (Light Purple)
6. Pink
7. Teal (greyish-green, South)
8. Grey
9. Dark, Forest Green
10. Very light blue (North)
11. Moss Green (above yellow)
12. Yellow
13. Blue
14. Red
15. Maroon
Region Name
One Country within Region
Neatly label the world maps with the land and water features listed below in the colors indicated in parentheses. Use the
numbers next to the terms and that should help you fit them on the map. Use more than one map to identify these places.
For instance, use 1 map for continents and deserts, and 1 map for seas, rivers, oceans, bays, and lakes, and 1 map for the
mountains and other important places.
Continents (Red)
1. North America
2. South America
3. Australia
4. Europe
5. Antarctica
6. Asia
7. Africa
Deserts (indicate with striped
green lines)
1. Gobi
2. Kalahari
3. Sahara
4. Thar
5. Sierra Madre
6. Mojave
7. Arabian Desert
8. Great Sandy Desert
Oceans, Seas, Bays, Lakes (Blue)
1. Atlantic Ocean (1N North and 1S
South)
2. Pacific Ocean (2N North and 2S
South)
3. Indian Ocean
4. Arctic Ocean
5. North Sea
6. Baltic Sea
7. English Channel
8. Norwegian Sea
9. Barents Sea
10. Mediterranean Sea
11. Adriatic Sea
12. Aegean Sea
13. Black Sea
14. Caspian Sea
15. Great Lakes
16. Red Sea
17. Persian Gulf
18. Arabian Sea
19. Bay of Bengal
20. South China Sea
21. East China Sea
22. Yellow Sea
23. Sea of Japan
24. Caribbean
25. Hudson Bay
26. Cape of Good Hope
27. Cape Horn
28. Gulf of Guinea
29. Ionian Sea
30. Bering Sea
Rivers (Blue)
1. Nile River
2. Tigris
3. Euphrates
4. Amazon River
5. Mississippi River
6. Rio Grande River
7. Indus River
8. Yellow River (Hwang He)
9. Yangtze
10. Ganges River
11. Irrawaddy River
12. Mekong
13. Congo
14. Volga
15. Danube
16. Rhine
17. Niger
18. Brahmaputra
19. Zambezi
20. Dnieper
Mountains & Other Important
Places (Black)
1. Himilayas
2. Caucasus
3. Andes
4. Hindu Kush
5. Ural
6. Alps
7. Atlas
8. Pyrenees
9. Balkan Peninsula
10. Iberian Peninsula
11. Asia Minor
12. Anatolia
13. Sinai Peninsula
14. Strait of Gibraltar
15. Panama Canal
16. Yucatan Peninsula
17. Horn of Africa
18. Sri Lanka
19. Mesoamerica
20. Madagascar
21. New Zealand
22. Australia
23. Suez Canal
24. Siberia
25. Manchuria
During the first week of school, we’ll have a geography quiz on some of these terms. I
encourage you to go to www.ilike2learn.com and/or http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/Geography.htm to
play geography review games to practice.
Evaluation Rubric
Part I: A History of the World in 6 Glasses Questions (200 pts)
 Accuracy, Quality, and Depth of Answers—20 pts. Each
Part II: Human Pre-History Exploration (120 pts)
 Accuracy, Quality and Depth of 3 Answers—40 pts. Each
Part III: World Geography (45 pts.)
 Accuracy of APWH Regions Chart—15 pts.
 Accuracy of 3 Labeled World Maps—30 pts.
**Remember—Part I is due to Frau Schmid by 9 am. August 24th.
Parts II and III are due the first day of school, August 31st.
Late assignments will not be accepted.**
If you have any questions about this summer assignment, please don’t hesitate to email
me at: [email protected] and I will respond as soon as possible.
Also you will need to go to my AP World website in order to complete the chart above.
Go to the Phillipsburg High School home page, and under Staff Information, click on
Social Studies, then my name, Mrs. Schmid, and then AP World. I will be working on
placing materials on the website during the summer, but first I will place a copy of this
assignment on it so that you can complete the chart of APWH regions.
A NOTE ABOUT PLAGIARISM: Plagiarism or intentionally passing off someone else's work as
your own is intellectual dishonesty. Because historical research and learning are best
done in groups, collaboration with classmates is expected. However, all work on tests
must be individual and any work done outside of class must be written entirely IN YOUR OWN
WORDS. Any quotations from references must be properly attributed on written papers.
Cheating of this kind will result in an automatic 0 for the individual or individuals, and
the assignment will be redone or another assignment will be given instead. Your parents
will also be notified.
Enjoy the summer, Happy Reading, & Do not
wait until the end of the summer to start!
I’m looking forward to meeting all of you on
August 31st!