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Welcome to AP World History! Dear AP World Students, Welcome to AP World History! Congratulations on choosing to embark on such a wonderful learning experience. We hope you are excited to learn about 10,000 years of World History in one school year! You will have many opportunities for rigorous and challenging projects, discussions, and assignments. Our goal is to be prepared for the AP World History Exam in May. The Summer Assignment will give you an overview of the places and events that we will learn about this year. When you complete this packet, you will have a collection of maps and timelines that will help you throughout the course. These assignments are due at the beginning of the school year. In order to be successful, it is important that you get off to a positive start; you cannot fall behind in an AP class! In AP World History, you can expect to have homework every night for the entire school year. You can also expect to read the majority, if not the entirety, of the AP World textbook. The text is challenging and requires you to learn some material on your own; there is simply too much history to cover it all in class! You should also expect to write an essay every two weeks to prepare you for the three types of essays on the AP exam. An AP course is a challenging and rigorous, but very rewarding experience. You should be prepared to work harder and learn more for the same grades you have earned in the past. It won’t be easy, but mastering the skills taught now, as a 10th grader, will make every class you take in the rest of your academic career feel like a piece of cake! We look forward to having you in class for the 2011-2012 school year. If you have any questions or concerns about the course or the Summer Assignment, you can come by our classrooms or email us. This packet has also been posted on our websites. Have a wonderful summer!!! Get excited about AP WORLD!! Miss Heath [email protected] AP World History Mr. Kahn [email protected] Miss Yarbrough [email protected] Page |1 Summer Assignment The Summer Assignment The Summer Assignment is an essential element of preparation for the AP World course. When you complete this assignment, you will have an overview of the places and events you will learn about throughout the year. Knowing where and when things happened right from the start will help you keep the entirety of world history in a logical order in your head! Remember, this is not an assignment to put off to the last night before school starts in August. Though it is not designed to be highly challenging, it is not a short assignment. You don’t want to come to the first day of school without any sleep, or without the assignment done. Start the year off right – complete a few parts of the assignment each week during the summer. P A R T 1: AP W O R L D R E G I O N S Use the map of Selected World Regions on page 3, as well as any other resource you may need, to complete the chart on page 4. The Selected World Regions map draws regional borders along current national borders. P A R T 2: M A P S Colorfully and clearly label the cities/countries/empires/continents/bodies of water on the appropriate map on pages 5-11. You may need to draw in rivers or the borders of old empires. P A R T 3: T I M EL I N E S Create four world history timelines highlighting the major events/eras/dynasties/empires of four important world regions. See page 12 for instructions and page 13 for an example. ALL ASSIGNMENTS ARE DUE AUGUST 29 WHEN WE RETURN! Page |2 Summer Assignment Page |3 Summer Assignment AP W O R L D R E G I ON S List modern-day countries that belong in each region. Latin America Sub-Saharan Africa Middle East (include North Africa) 1. 1. 1. 2. 2. 2. 3. 3. 3. 4. 4. 4. 5. 5. 5. 6. 6. 6. 7. 7. 7. 8. 8. 8. 9. 9. 9. 10. 10. 10. South Asia Southeast Asia East Asia 1. 1. 1. 2. 2. 2. 3. 3. 3. 4. 4. 4. 5. 5. 5. Page |4 Summer Assignment North America South America Australia Asia Africa Antarctica Europe Pacific Ocean Color/Label the following: Arctic Ocean Indian Ocean Atlantic Ocean Mediterranean Sea Arabian Sea Caribbean Sea Java Sea Black Sea Caspian Sea Baltic Sea Arabian Sea Page |5 Summer Assignment China River Valley Egypt River Valley Indus River Valley Mesopotamia River Valley Euphrates River Indus River Nile River Tigris River Color/Label the following: Yellow River (Huang He River) Olmec Civilization Page |6 Summer Assignment China India Italy Greece Babylon (city) Jerusalem Persian Empire Alexandria (Egypt) Color/Label the following: Athens Rome Ganges River Page |7 Summer Assignment Aztec Empire Baghdad Byzantine Empire Calicut Constantinople Inca Empire Mongol Empire Moscow Color/Label the following: Tenochtitlan Timbuktu Venice Page |8 Summer Assignment Britain Cape of Good Hope Cuba Dominica France Indonesia Japan Mexico Color/Label the following: Mughal Empire Netherlands Ottoman Empire Peru Portugal Russia Safavid Empire Songhay Spain Strait of Magellan Strait of Malacca Page |9 Summer Assignment Algeria Argentina Austria Beijing Berlin Congo Egypt Germany Color/Label the following: Haiti Japan London Paris Philippines South Africa Tokyo P a g e | 10 Summer Assignment Vietnam Angola Gold Coast (now called Ghana) Pakistan Iraq Iran Libya North Korea Color/Label the following: Kenya Syria Saudi Arabia Israel Armenia Cambodia Rwanda Sudan Chile Uganda Turkey P a g e | 11 Summer Assignment TIMELINES Create a separate timeline for each list below (four timelines total). For each timeline: Use a single sheet of paper (front and back is OK). Use a consistent scale (400 years should be four times as long as 100 years). Use BCE/CE (and be careful not to mix them up!). Research start (and end, when applicable) dates for each event – they are NOT listed in order. Plot each event on the timeline, along with a single sentence summary of how the new era/dynasty/empire began. o For example: the Yuan Dynasty began in China when the Mongols completed their conquest of the Song Dynasty. China • • • • • • • • • • • Chinese Civil War Han Dynasty Ming Dynasty Qin Dynasty Qing Dynasty Shang Dynasty Song Dynasty Sui Dynasty Tang Dynasty Yuan Dynasty Zhou Dynasty Middle East • Abbasid Dynasty • Armenian Genocide • Iranian Revolution • Lifetime of Muhammad • Ottoman Empire • Partition of Palestine [creation of Israel] • Rightly Guided Caliphs • Safavid Empire • Umayyad Dynasty Europe • Age of Absolutism • Age of Exploration • Byzantine Empire • Enlightenment • Fall of Rome • French Revolution/Napoleonic Wars • Mongol control of Russia • Protestant Reformation • Renaissance • Russian Empire [NOT the Soviet Union] • Russian Revolution • Scientific Revolution • Soviet Union • Thirty Years War • World War I • World War II India • • • • • • • • Aryan Invasions British Raj Delhi Sultanate Gupta Empire Harappan Civilization Mauryan Empire Mughal Empire Partition of India [India/Pakistan] P a g e | 12 Summer Assignment S A M P L E T IM E L I N E – A M E R IC A N H I S T OR Y This is just one option for designing your timeline, but not the only way for you to format your work. 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