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Southwest Allen County Schools
Social Studies Curriculum 2009-2015
AP World History, UNIT (1)
Desired Results
What should students know and be able to do? (Include state standards and SACS expectations.)
Early Civilizations
1. Students will identify what enabled civilizations to develop.
2. Students will recognize what characteristics are critical for a society to become a civilization, and also
identify some of the drawbacks of a civilization.
3. Students will assess what advantages an agriculturally based society has over a hunter-gatherer society.
4. Students will describe why Judaism was a significant development in the religious history of early
civilization.
5. Students will explain why the development of writing was important in the history of river valley
civilizations.
South and East Asia
1. Students will identify the strengths and weaknesses of classical Chinese society.
2. Students will answer what caused the rise of Confucianism and how Confucian philosophy supported
the political structure in China.
3. Students will analyze how China was able to accept two major beliefs systems, Confucianism and
Daoism.
4. Students will interpret the development of the caste system.
5. Students will compare and contrast Hinduism and Buddhism.
6. Students will review the impact of the geography of India and China and also the impact upon social
patterns.
7. Students will compare and contrast family structures in India and China.
Mediterranean
1. Students will identify the main similarities and differences between Greek and Roman political
structures.
1. Students will identify the significance of the Hellenistic period.
3. Students will compare and contrast the main political, social, and economic features of the Roman
Empire and Han China.
4. Students will evaluate the contributions of the Mediterranean civilizations.
5. Students will analyze the effects on society of the fall of the classical civilizations
6. Students will appraise the ways in which the Eastern and Western portions of the Roman Empire were
different and ways in which they were similar.
7. Students will identify the similarities and differences in the decline and fall of classical civilizations.
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Africa
1. Students will identify the main features of the civilizations of Kush, Axum, and Ethiopia. What were
their similarities and differences?
2. Students will identify the Sudanic states and analyze how they were organized.
3. Students will discuss the African political and social institutions that predate the arrival of Islam on the
African continent.
4. Students will describe the intellectual, cultural, and social accomplishments of the African civilizations.
Middle East
1. Students will relate how Islam addressed the fundamental problems of Arabian society at the time.
2. Students will analyze how the disputes over authority after the death of Mohammad served to hinder
Muslim unity.
3. Students will discuss if women in the Islamic world had more or less freedom than women in other
contemporary societies.
4. Students will describe the intellectual contributions and achievements of the Islamic civilization.
5. Students will analyze the factors that contributed to Islam’s spread to south and Southeast Asia.
Europe
1. Students will assess the nature of Byzantine political organization and culture and how they affected the
development of Eastern Europe and Russia.
2. Students will compare and contrast the development of civilization in Eastern and Western Europe.
3. Students will discuss the differences between the Orthodox and Roman Catholic churches.
4. Students will discuss the ways in which the Middle Ages carried on the culture of ancient Mediterranean
civilization and also added its own innovations.
5. Students will examine manorialism and feudalism.
6. Students will describe various political units of Western Europe between 1000 and 1400.
Americas
1. Students will compare and contrast the imperial civilizations of the Andes and Mesoamerica.
2. Students will describe the political, social, and economic organization of the Aztec and Inca Empires.
3. Students will compare and contrast American and European societies.
Acceptable Evidence
What assessments and products let us know if students have acquired the Desired Results?
Required Acceptable Evidence:
• Preparation of study note cards
• Notes/Lecture
• Document Analysis
• Class Discussion
• Study Guides
• Map Work
Other Acceptable Evidence:
• Socratic Seminar
• Outlining Sections
• Films
• Class Review Sessions
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Summaries/Identifications
Photo Essay/Analysis
Class Debates
Content
What subject matter will be used to help students achieve the Desired Results?
Early Civilizations
1. In what areas of the world did systematic agriculture develop during the Neolithic Age, and how did this
development affect the lives of men and women?
2. What are the characteristics of civilization, and what are some of the explanations for why early
civilization emerged?
3. What role did religion play in the early civilizations of western Asia, and Egypt, and how did Judaism
differ from the other religions in the area?
4. What methods and institutions did the Assyrians and Persians use to amass and maintain the respective
empires?
5. What were the chief features of Indian civilization and in what ways was it similar to the civilizations
that arose in Egypt and Mesopotamia?
South and East Asia
1. How did ancient Indians meet the challenge of the land?
2. What effects did the Aryans have on Indian civilization?
3. What kind of social and political organization developed in India?
4. What intellectual and religious values did Indian society generate?
5. What roles did the caste system and family play in Indian society?
6. What are the main tenets of Hinduism and Buddhism, and how did each religion influence Indian
civilization?
7. How did Buddhism change in the centuries after Siddhartha Gautama’s death, and why did it ultimately
decline in popularity in India?
8. What impact did Muslim rule have on Indian society?
9. What are some of the most important cultural achievements of Indian civilization in the era between the
Mauryas and the Mughals?
10. What were the main characteristics of Southeast Asian culture and economic life, culture, and religion
before 1500 C.E.?
11. How did China’s geography influence its development?
12. What concepts of kingship and political and governmental institutions characterized each of the major
dynasties of early China- the Shang, the Zhou, the Qin, and the Han?
13. What were the major tenets of Confucianism, Legalism, and Daoism, and what role did each play in
Chinese Civilization?
14. What were the key aspects of social and economic life in early China?
15. How did elements of the cultures of India and China spread to neighboring lands?
16. How did the societies of Asia respond to the Mongol conquests?
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Mediterranean
1. How did the Greeks develop basic political forms, as different as democracy and tyranny, which have
influenced all of later history?
2. What effects did the Persian Wars and the Peloponnesian War have on Greek civilization?
3. How was Alexander the Great able to amass his empire, and what was his legacy?
4. What did the spread of Hellenism mean to the Greeks and to the peoples of Asia, Africa, and Europe?
5. How did Rome rise to greatness?
6. What policies and institutions help to explain the Romans’ success in conquering and ruling their
empire?
7. What characteristics of Christianity enabled it to grow and ultimately to triumph?
8. In what ways were the Roman Empire and the Han Chinese Empire similar and in what ways were they
different?
9. What effects did the conquest of the Mediterranean have on the Romans themselves?
10. How did the Roman Empire meet the challenge of barbarian invasion and subsequent economic decline?
Africa
1. How did Egypt influence the cultural heritage to its African neighbors?
2. What was the impact of the Swahili civilization in Africa and also on surrounding areas?
3. What internal developments and extended contacts spread civilization in Africa?
4. How did the arrival of Christianity and Islam affect African societies?
5. How did Islam and the beliefs of indigenous societies fuse among African peoples?
6. Where did cultures in Africa develop that were not affected by Islam? What was the nature of their
organization?
Middle East
1. What are the main tenets of the Muslim faith?
2. How does Islam compare with Judaism and Christianity?
3. What factors account for the remarkable spread of Islam and how did the Muslims govern the vast
territories they conquered?
4. Why did the Shi’ite Muslim tradition arise, and how did the split between Shi’ites and Sunnis affect the
course of Islam?
5. What position did women hold in Muslim society?
6. What were the main features of Islamic society and culture?
7. How did the Muslims view Western society and culture?
8. What are the basic political structures of the Arab empire under the Umayyads and the Abbasids?
9. How did the Seljuk Turks, the Crusades, and the Mongols affect the Islamic civilization?
Europe
1. The civilization later described as European resulted from the fusion of the Greco-Roman heritage,
Germanic traditions, Christian faith, and significant elements of the Islamic world. How did these
components act on one another and to the new civilization that emerged in Europe after the collapse of
the Western Roman Empire?
2. What were the main aspects of the economic, intellectual, cultural, and spiritual revivals that took place
in Europe during the High Middle Ages?
3. What were the main reasons for the Crusades, and what did they accomplish?
4. How did Charlemagne acquire and govern his vast empire, and what was the Carolingian Renaissance?
5. What was feudalism, and how did it come about?
6. How did the Christian church and civil government develop and influence one another during the early
and central Middle Ages?
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Americas
1. Who were the first Americans, and when and how did they arrive?
2. What is the geography of the Americas, and how did it shape the lives of the native peoples?
3. What patterns of social and political organization did the Maya, Aztecs, and Incas display?
4. What were the significant cultural achievements of the Maya, Aztecs, and Incas?
5. What role did religion play in the civilizations of the New World?
6. In what ways were the civilizations of the New World similar to the early civilizations of the Old World,
and in what ways were they different?
Learning Experiences
What activities/instruction will be used to assist students in attaining the Desired Results?
Required Learning Experiences:
• Students will be prepared to take the AP Exam. They will practice AP Exam questions and be strongly
encouraged to take the AP Exam.
• Students will work on developing a thesis statement and building a successful essay.
• Students will write a compare/contrast paper over topics in Unit 1.
• Students will write a change over time essay over topics in Unit 1.
• Students will write a Document Based Question (DBQ) essay.
Other Learning Experiences:
• Tests
• Quizzes
• Essay Tests
• Document Based Questions (DBQ)
• Papers
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Southwest Allen County Schools
Social Studies Curriculum 2009-2015
AP World History, UNIT (2)
Desired Results
What should students know and be able to do? (Include state standards and SACS expectations.)
South and East Asia
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Students will evaluate the Sui rise to power and also their collapse.
Students will summarize the status of women during the various dynasties in China.
Students will appraise the overall impact of the Tang-Song era on Chinese history.
Students will compare and contrast the relationship of China to Japan, Korea, and Vietnam.
Students will describe the Japanese government of this time period.
Students will analyze the Japanese government, society, and economy.
Students will analyze the common elements of Chinese culture passed on to all three of the satellite
civilizations.
8. Students will examine the impact of the Mongols upon Europe, Russia, and the Islamic world.
9. Students will assess the administration of the Mongol empire.
10. Students will discuss the effect of the Mongol conquest on Chinese society and political structure.
11. Students will explain the nature of the Asian sea-trading network.
12. Students will identify why the Japanese resorted to isolation as a response to European expansion.
13. Students will describe what centralizing and decentralizing forces were at work in Japan before 1500,
and how did they influence the political and governmental structures that arose.
14. Students will assess the main characteristics of economic and social life in early Japan.
15. Students will discuss the most important cultural achievements of early Japan, and how they illustrate
the Japanese ability to blend indigenous and imported elements.
16. Students will analyze the main characteristics of Southeast Asian civilization, and how it was affected
by the coming of Islam and the Europeans?
17. Students will evaluate how China and Japan responded to the coming of the Europeans, and what impact
the Europeans had on these East Asian civilizations in the sixteenth through eighteenth centuries?
18. Students will asses how economy and society of Japan changed during the Tokugawa era, and how
Japanese culture reflected those changes?
19. Students will compare and contrast the European intrusion into the African commercial system with
their entry into the Asian trade network.
Europe
1. Students will name the reasons for the rise of the West and the decline of civilizations outside the world
network.
2. Students will describe the nature of the Italian Renaissance.
3. Students will evaluate the nature of early Western exploration and colonial patterns.
4. Students will discuss the ways that the creation of a global economy in the sixteenth and seventeenth
centuries differed from the previous trade networks that had existed between civilizations.
5. Students will discuss the reasons that allowed the West to establish its dominance in the global trade
network of the seventeenth century.
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6. Students will describe the Colombian Exchange.
7. Students will assess the results of the creation of a world economy.
8. Students will compare and contrast the ways in which the Renaissance, Reformation, and Enlightenment
had an effect on the political organization of Europe.
9. Students will explain the scientific revolution and identify some of the major discoveries.
10. Students will discuss the main features of the Renaissance, and how they differed from the Middle Ages.
11. Students will relate how Portugal and Spain acquired their overseas empires, and how the empires
differed.
12. Students will indicate what political and social factors were reflected in the development of national
literatures and in the expansion of literacy.
13. Students will analyze Martin Luther’s main disagreements with the Roman Catholic Church, and how
the movement he started spread so quickly across Europe.
14. Students will interpret the main issues in the struggle between king and Parliament in seventeenth
century England and they were resolved.
15. Students will examine what responses the Catholic Church made to the movements of reform.
16. Students will discuss how and why the Europeans gained control of the major sea-lanes of the world and
established political and economic hegemony on distant continents.
Latin America
1. Students will define what aspects of Iberian society were transferred to the New World.
2. Students will discuss the nature of the exploitation of Indians in the Americas.
3. Students will describe the economy of the American colonies.
4. Students will relate the nature of the Spanish system of government in the American colonies.
5. Students will explain the social hierarchy of the American colonies.
6. Students will discuss how the political, social, and economic organization of the Americas differed from
those of Africa.
7. Students will examine how a few Spaniards, fighting far from home, overcome the powerful Aztec and
Inca Empires in America.
Africa
1. Students will discuss how the West affected the political development of Africa and how slavery was a
component in the nature of state formation in sub-Saharan Africa.
2. Students will review the changes in the volume of the Atlantic slave trade between 1450 and 1850.
3. Students will analyze the demographic effect of the African slave trade on the sub-Saharan region.
4. Students will discuss why the slave trade came to an end.
5. Students will assess the main developments in African history before the coming of Islam, and the
contacts early African civilizations and societies had with civilizations outside Africa.
6. Students will list what effects the coming of Islam and the Arabs had on African religion, society,
political structures, trade, and culture.
7. Students will interpret what roles lineage groups, women, and slavery played in African society.
8. Students will judge what patterns of social and political organization prevailed among the peoples of
Africa.
9. Students will determine what types of agriculture and commerce Africa engaged in.
10. Students will relate how and why Europeans expanded into Africa, and the main consequences of their
presence there.
11. Students will discuss the main features of the African slave trade, and what effects it had on Africa.
12. Students will analyze how and why African slave labor became the dominant form of labor organization
in America.
13. Students will define what role slavery played in African societies before European intrusion.
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14. Students will compare and contrast the European intrusion into the African commercial system with
their entry into the Asian trade network.
Middle East
1. Students will discuss the similarities in the causes for decline in all of the Islamic early modern empires.
2. Students will compare what weaknesses were common to all of the Muslim empires.
3. Students will appraise what military and religious factors gave rise to the Ottoman, Safavid, and Mughal
Empires. Students will understand how they were governed.
4. Students will discuss to what extent these empires were world powers.
5. Students will list what intellectual developments characterized the Ottoman and Safavid Empires.
6. Students will describe what domestic and external difficulties caused the decline of Ottoman Turkey,
Safavid Persia, and Mughal India.
7. Students will compare and contrast why each of the great Muslim empires – Ottoman, Safavid, and
Mughal – come into existence, and why they ultimately declined.
8. Students will analyze the main characteristics of each of the Muslim empires, and in what ways were
they similar.
9. Students will compare and contrast what contact each of the Muslim empires had with Europeans, and
how each empire was affected by the contact.
10. Students will examine what role did women played in each of the Muslim empires.
Acceptable Evidence
What assessments and products let us know if students have acquired the Desired Results?
Required Acceptable Evidence:
• Preparation of study note cards.
• Notes/Lecture
• Document Analysis
• Class Discussion
• Study Guides
• Map Work
Other Acceptable Evidence:
• Socratic Seminar
• Outlining Sections
• Films
• Class Review Sessions
• Summaries/Identifications
• Photo Essay/Analysis
• Class Debates
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Content
What subject matter will be used to help students achieve the Desired Results?
South and East Asia
1. How did the Sui and Tang reestablish a centralized empire in China?
2. What institutions did the Tang use to govern their empire?
3. What problems did religion cause in this period and how did the state resolve them?
4. Identify Neo-Confucianism; how did it influence Chinese culture and the state?
5. What problems plagued the Song state and how did it attempt to solve them?
6. Describe the Chinese commercial revolution.
7. How did the Chinese expand agricultural production?
8. How did gender relations change during the Tang – Song era?
9. Describe Chinese intellectual accomplishments during this period.
10. Describe the influence of Chinese culture on Heian Japan.
11. What led to the decline of imperial power within Japan?
12. To what extent did Vietnam and Korea accept and reject Chinese influences?
13. How did Korea and Vietnam maintain political independence from China?
14. How did the Mongols govern their empire and its peoples?
15. How did the Mongol rule allow religion and commerce to flourish?
16. How did Mongol rule influence Europe, the Muslim world, and China?
17. Why did nomads cease to be a threat to civilizations after the Mongols?
18. How did the arrival of the Europeans affect the Asian trading network?
19. Describe the Asian sea-trading network.
20. How did the Europeans establish and maintain their trading empires in Asia?
21. How did the Ming Dynasty attempt to reform and govern its empire?
22. Describe the Ming social hierarchy.
23. What were the motives for the Ming naval expeditions? Why were they ended?
24. What led to the decline of the Ming?
25. How did the Japanese deal with the European challenge?
Europe
1. How did the Renaissance affect and benefit European society?
2. What advantages did Spain and Portugal have when expansion began?
3. Which regions were outside the world network and why were they vulnerable?
4. What were the Colombian Exchanges and how did they affect the world?
5. What global labor and commercial structures, patterns, and relationships arose?
6. How did European nations acquire and govern their American colonies?
7. How did European colonial possessions and practices in Asia and Africa differ from practices in the
Americas?
8. What new economic and commercial structures arose during the period and how did they fundamentally
redefine the European institutions?
9. How did the Renaissance and Scientific Revolution affect the intellectual life and promote changes in
popular outlook?
10. What was the relationship between the Enlightenment and changes in popular culture and government?
11. In what areas did Russia expand and how was this accomplished?
12. How did the Mongol rule affect Russia?
13. How did Peter the Great and Catherine the Great modernize Russia?
14. What forces resisted modernization and westernization in Russia?
15. What was the connection between expansion and modernization?
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16. What is a multinational state and how does it differ from a nation-state?
Latin America
1. How did Iberian society influence Spanish and Portuguese conquests?
2. What Iberian institutions were transplanted to the Americas?
3. How did the Caribbean serve as a model for the Spanish empire?
4. How did Spain acquire her American empire?
5. What effects did the Spanish contacts and conquests have on Indian societies?
6. How did Spain organize and manage its empire and colonial possessions?
7. How did the Portuguese experience in Brazil differ from the Spanish experience in Latin America?
8. What effects did the 18th century reform movements have on Latin America?
Africa
1. How did the arrival of Portugal and other Europeans affect West Africa?
2. Why did the slave trades arise and how did the affect Africa?
3. How many Africans were enslaved and where did they go?
4. What demographic patterns do historians see in the slave trade?
5. How did African slavery differ from American slavery?
6. How did the slave trade influence African politics and the rise of states?
7. What developments occurred in East Africa?
8. How did African cultures, religions, and institutions change outside Africa?
Middle East
1. What led to the decline of the Muslim world and its empire?
2. What is a gunpowder empire and how is technology critical to its success?
3. What factors influenced the rise of the Ottomans, Safavids, and Mughals?
4. How did the Ottomans, Mughals, and Safavids govern their empires?
5. What led to the decline of the Ottoman, Mughal, and Safavid empires?
6. Describe the intellectual achievements of the Muslim gunpowder states.
7. Describe gender roles and society in the three Muslim gunpowder empires.
8. Describe the relationship between European and Muslim empires.
Learning Experiences
What activities/instruction will be used to assist students in attaining the Desired Results?
Required Learning Experience:
• Students will be prepared to take the AP Exam. They will practice AP Exam questions and be strongly
encouraged to take the AP Exam.
• Students will work on developing a thesis statement and building a successful essay.
• Students will write a compare/contrast paper over topics in Unit 2.
• Students will write a change over time essay over topics in Unit 2.
• Students will write a Document Based Question (DBQ) essay.
Other Learning Experiences:
• Tests
• Quizzes
• Essay Tests
• Document Based Questions (DBQ)
• Papers
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Southwest Allen County Schools
Social Studies Curriculum 2007-2009
AP World History, UNIT (3)
Desired Results
What should students know and be able to do? (Include state standards and SACS expectations.)
Europe
1. Students will discuss what led to industrialization and how the Industrial Revolution changed the social
structure and political alignment of the West.
2. Students will identify what new political movements emerged in the aftermath of the French Revolution.
3. Students will explain how industrialization and revolutions were linked.
4. Students will assess the motives behind the global scramble for colonies.
5. Students will assess the success of reform movements in resolving the problems of race, class, and
gender.
6. Students will describe Russian reform and industrialization from 1861 – 1900.
7. Students will discuss the relationship between the Great Depression and political instability.
8. Students will appraise the long range and immediate causes of World War I, and why the course of the
war turned out to be so different from what the belligerents had expected.
9. Students will explain how World War I affected the belligerents’ governmental and political institutions,
economic affairs, and social life.
10. Students will discuss the causes of the Russian Revolution of 1917, and why the Bolsheviks prevailed in
the civil war and gained control of Russia.
11. Students will compare and contrast the causes, the main events, and the results of the American and
French Revolutions.
12. Students will discuss how the changes brought by the Industrial Revolution affected people and society
in an era of continued rapid population growth.
13. Students will analyze how the basic features of the new industrial system created by the Industrial
Revolution, and what effects the new system had on urban life, social classes, family life, and standards
of living.
14. Students will discuss the main ideas of Karl Marx, and what role they played in politics and the union
movement in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
15. Students will discuss the types of administrative systems the various colonial powers established for
their colonies, and how these systems reflected the general philosophy of colonialism.
Latin America
1. Students will discuss the degree to which Latin American states were successful in shaking off their
colonial past.
2. Students will assess the causes of political change in Latin America.
3. Students will contrast the Brazilian move to independence with other Latin American independence
movements.
4. Students will analyze the ways in which the United States entered the political and economic affairs of
Latin America.
5. Students will describe how the Great Depression affected politics in Latin America.
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6. Students will discuss what problems the nations of Latin America faced in the interwar years, and how
they responded to these problems.
7. Students will identify the major ideas associated with conservatism, liberalism, and nationalism, and
what role did each ideology played in Europe and Latin America between 1800 and 1870.
8. Students will explain how the different peoples of Africa and Asia interacted with the industrializing
West.
9. Students will assess why and how did the Spanish and Portuguese colonies of North and South America
rid themselves of European domination and developed into national states.
10. Students will discuss how the subject peoples responded to colonialism, and what role did nationalism
play in their response.
South and East Asia
1. Students will judge the reforms the Manchu introduced and the level of their success.
2. Students will analyze how Europeans gained entry into China.
3. Students will discuss what led to the overthrow of the Manchu dynasty.
4. Students will describe Japanese reform and industrialization from 1853 – 1900.
5. Students will examine what social and economic changes took place in Japan as a result of
industrialization.
6. Students will review what factors led to Japan’s shift from a liberal democracy to a military-controlled
government.
7. Students will determine why Japan embarked on a foreign policy of conquest.
8. Students will examine how modern nationalism – the dominant force in most of the world in the
twentieth century – developed in Asia between the First and Second World Wars.
9. Students will organize what problems China faced between 1919 and 1939, and what solutions the
Nationalists and the Communists proposed to solve these problems.
10. Students will compare and contrast how the different peoples of Africa and Asia interacted with the
industrializing West.
11. Students will discuss why the Qing dynasty declined and ultimately collapsed, and what role the
Western powers played in this process.
12. Students will state the political, economic, and social reforms instituted by Meiji reformers in Japan.
13. Students will analyze to what degree the Meiji Restoration was a “revolution,” and to what degree it
succeeded in transforming Japan.
Middle East
1. Students will discuss the nature of the 18th century crisis in the Ottoman Empire.
2. Students will explain what led to the overthrow of the Ottoman sultanate.
3. Students will tell how the British gained control of Egypt.
4. Students will discuss what forms the independence movements in India and the Middle East took, and
what problems each movement faced.
5. Students will identify how the subject peoples responded to colonialism, and what role did nationalism
play in their response.
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Acceptable Evidence
What assessments and products let us know if students have acquired the Desired Results?
Required Acceptable Evidence:
• Preparation of study note cards.
• Notes/Lecture
• Document Analysis
• Class Discussion
• Study Guides
• Map Work
Other Acceptable Evidence:
• Socratic Seminar
• Outlining Sections
• Films
• Class Review Sessions
• Summaries/Identifications
• Photo Essay/Analysis
• Class Debates
Content
What subject matter will be used to help students achieve the Desired Results?
Europe
1. What ideas did the American and French revolutions unleash?
2. What political ideologies challenged European conservatives?
3. How did the Industrial Revolution affect traditional European lifestyles?
4. What role did nationalism play in European politics after 1848?
5. What ideologies challenged the traditional social system after 1870?
6. What developments led to the outbreak of World War I?
7. How did modern 19th century imperialism differ from 16th century colonialism?
8. How did the Europeans typically acquire colonial possessions?
9. How did the British rule India?
10. Describe the early colonial society in Java and India.
11. How did Western style education affect colonial peoples?
12. How did economic competition influence imperialism?
13. Describe the social relationships between colonizer and the colonized.
14. How did Europeans change the economies of their colonies?
15. Describe Russian society from 1815 – 1860.
16. What reforms did Alexander II attempt and with what results?
17. What effects did Russian nationalism have on Eastern Europe?
18. How did World War I change Western governments and societies?
19. Why did Europe accept decolonization and what were its effects on Europe?
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Latin America
1. What causes led to the revolutions for independence?
2. How did Latin American nations achieve their independence?
3. How was Haiti’s war for independence different from others in the area?
4. What factors led to political instability in Latin America?
5. How did the heritage of the past hinder the newly independent nations?
6. What was the role of the military and the church in Latin American politics?
7. What economic problems did Latin American nations encounter?
8. How did the world trade system and foreign intervention affect Latin America?
9. Compare and contrast the development of Brazil, Argentina, and Mexico.
10. What social tensions and inequalities existed in Latin America?
11. How did the world economic concerns transform Latin America from 1880 – 1920?
12. What changes occurred as a result of the Mexican Revolution?
13. How did World War I affect Latin America?
14. How did Latin American society, economics, and politics change from colonial times to the 1920s?
South and East Asia
1. What domestic and foreign forces threatened Qing China?
2. How did Chinese leaders respond to westernization?
3. How successful were the Chinese leaders in reforming their states?
4. How successfully did the Chinese resist Western penetration?
5. Were Europeans responsible for Chinese internal problems or did they just take advantage of the
situation?
6. What internal forces arose to challenge Qing leadership?
7. Describe Japanese society during the late Tokugawa Shogunate.
8. How was Japan opened to foreign influences and with what results?
9. Why was Japan better able to modernize than China?
10. How did Japan change politically after the Meiji Restoration?
11. Describe the industrialization of Japan.
12. What social and cultural effects and conflicts did modernization cause in Japan?
13. What elements led to Nationalist seizure of power in China?
14. Why did the Nationalists fail to achieve permanent success in China?
15. Discuss the ascendancy of Japan’s military during the 1930s, and their economic and industrial
advancements.
Middle East
1. What domestic and foreign forces threatened Muslim states?
2. How did Muslim leaders respond to westernization?
3. How successful were the Muslim leaders in reforming their states?
4. How successfully did Muslims resist Western penetration?
5. Were Europeans responsible for Muslim internal problems or did they just take advantage of the
situation?
6. What internal forces arose to challenge Ottoman leadership?
7. Why were Muslim culture and states able to survive when the Qing could not?
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Learning Experiences
What activities/instruction will be used to assist students in attaining the Desired Results?
Required Learning Experience:
• Students will be prepared to take the AP Exam. They will practice AP Exam questions and be strongly
encouraged to take the AP Exam.
• Students will work on developing a thesis statement and building a successful essay.
• Students will write a compare/contrast paper over topics in Unit 3.
• Students will write a change over time essay over topics in Unit 3.
• Students will write a Document Based Question (DBQ) essay.
Other Learning Experiences:
• Tests
• Quizzes
• Essay Tests
• Document Based Questions (DBQ)
• Papers
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Southwest Allen County Schools
Social Studies Curriculum 2007-2009
AP World History, UNIT (4)
Desired Results
What should students know and be able to do? (Include state standards and SACS expectations.)
Europe
1. Students will discuss the genocidal policies of the Germans in Europe and the Japanese in Asia.
2. Students will explain the global dynamics of World War II.
3. Students will define the purposes and outcomes of the Marshall Plan.
4. Students will judge the positive and negative outcomes of the implementation of the Welfare State.
5. Students will evaluate the ways in which the Communist system was unable to compete with its
capitalist rivals.
6. Students will identify the characteristics of totalitarian states, and to what degree these characteristics
were present in Fascist Italy, Nazi Germany, and Stalinist Russia.
7. Students will review how the Allies’ visions of the postwar world differed, and how these differences
contributed to the emergence of the Cold War.
8. Students will identify the causes of the cold war.
9. Students will examine the major developments in the Cold War between 1950 and 1989.
10. Students will explain how and why the Cold War changed from a European confrontation to a conflict
of global significance.
11. Students will list the chief characteristics of Soviet political, economic, and social life prior to Mikhail
Gorbachev, and what reforms he introduced.
12. Students will judge why a reform movement eventually triumphed in Eastern Europe in 1989 and how it
brought an end to the cold war.
Middle East
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3.
4.
Students will analyze the United Nations plan for the Middle East.
Students will examine how cities in the Middle East are different from those in the West.
Students will interpret what influences contributed to Islamic fundamentalists gaining power in Iran.
Students will asses what impact colonialism had on the Middle East, and how its legacy continues to
affect developments in these areas.
5. Students will define what role nationalism has played in the Middle East since World War II, and how
have other forces in each area exerted counteracting effects.
6. Students will evaluate how the role of women has changed in the Middle Eastern society since 1945.
7. Students will classify what political and economic problems Middle Eastern nations faced since 1945,
and how have they attempted to solve these problems.
South and East Asia
1. Students will describe the division of India after independence.
2. Students will examine how cities in Asia are different from those in the West.
3. Student will discuss whether the problems in newly independent Asian nations were the creation of
imperialism or the result of indigenous factors.
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4. Students will evaluate the post-independence policies in India.
5. Students will discuss the ways in which the development of the Pacific Rim continues the tradition of
Asian (primarily Chinese) civilizations and the ways in which the Pacific Rim departs from that past.
6. Students will appraise what accounts for the enormous economic growth of Japan and the Pacific Rim
after 1945.
7. Students will examine the gains women achieved in China, Japan, and the Pacific Rim states after 1945.
8. Students will evaluate how and why Mao Zedong and the Communists came to power in China, and the
implications of their triumph for the Cold War.
9. Students will list the major political, economic, and social developments in China since Mao’s death in
1976.
10. Students will analyze why communism has survived in China but not in Eastern Europe and Russia, and
what impact it has had on Chinese life and culture.
11. Students will indicate how the emerging nations of the Third World have sought to escape from poverty,
and what have been the results of their efforts.
12. Students will identify what problems India has faced since independence, and how its leaders attempted
to solve these problems.
13. Students will assess how social and economic life, the position of women, and culture changed in India
since independence, and to what extent do traditional patters exist.
14. Students will analyze how the political, economic, and social developments in Southeast Asia since
1945 reflected an effort to adapt Western institutions and values to Southeast Asian traditions.
15. Students will categorize the major political, social, cultural, and economic developments in Japan, South
Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, and Hong Kong since 1945.
Latin America
1. Students will discuss the evolution of pro-socialist governments in Latin America in the 20th century.
2. Students will explain the reasons the Cuban Revolution did not spread to other areas of Latin America.
3. Students will define what problems faced Latin America as the 20th century ended.
4. Students will review what factors led to the spread of democracy throughout Latin America.
5. Students will examine how cities in Latin America are different from those in the West.
6. Students will discuss the problems the nations of Latin America have faced since 1945, and the role
Marxist ideology has played in their efforts to solve these problems.
Africa
1. Students will judge why new African states had such difficulty in establishing national identities.
2. Students will examine how cities in Africa are different from those in the West.
3. Student will discuss whether the problems in newly independent Asian and African nations were the
creation of imperialism or the result of indigenous factors.
4. Students will evaluate the post-independence policies in Egypt.
5. Students will describe how African countries reasserted or established their political independence in the
postwar era.
6. Students will analyze what impact colonialism had on Africa and how its legacy continues to affect
developments in these areas.
7. Students will discuss what role nationalism played in Africa since World War II, and how have other
forces in each area exerted counteracting effects.
8. Students will analyze how dreams clashed with realities in the independent nations of Africa, and how
the resulting tensions affected African culture.
9. Students will assess how the role of women changed in African society since 1945.
10. Students will recognize how the emerging nations of the Third World sought to escape from poverty,
and what have been the results of their efforts.
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Global Issues
1. Students will assess how the planet organized itself politically, and will competing nation-states
continue to dominate world politics.
2. Students will evaluate how the human race has been using its resources to meet its material needs.
3. Students will identify the key ideas that are guiding human behavior as our planet moves toward an
uncertain future.
Acceptable Evidence
What assessments and products let us know if students have acquired the Desired Results?
Required Acceptable Evidence:
• Preparation of study note cards.
• Notes/Lecture
• Document Analysis
• Class Discussion
• Study Guides
• Map Work
Other Acceptable Evidence:
• Socratic Seminar
• Outlining Sections
• Films
• Class Review Sessions
• Summaries/Identifications
• Photo Essay/Analysis
• Class Debates
Content
What subject matter will be used to help students achieve the Desired Results?
Europe
1. What is total war and how does it affect the societies involved?
2. What agreements settled World War II and structured the post-war world?
3. How did the Cold War affect Western Europe?
4. What is the welfare state?
5. How did the social structure of the West change in the period after World War II?
6. How did Soviet foreign policy change after 1945?
7. Describe the cultural experience occurring in Western and Soviet-influenced societies during the late
20th century.
Middle East
1. What problems confronted the newly independent ex-colonial states?
2. How has ethnicity threatened many of the region’s states?
3. What achievements and disappointments have women faced in these states?
4. How have international economic conditions impacted developments?
5. What political patterns have governments and politics followed in these states?
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6. What role has the military played in post-colonial politics?
7. What different paths have Egypt, Iran, India, and South Africa taken?
South and East Asia
1. What problems confronted the newly independent ex-colonial states?
2. How has ethnicity threatened many of the region’s states?
3. What achievements and disappointments have women faced in these states?
4. How have international economic conditions impacted developments?
5. What political patterns have governments and politics followed in these states?
6. What role has the military played in post-colonial politics?
7. What factors led to the growth of militarism in Japan prior to World War II?
8. How did World War II affect the Pacific Rim?
9. How was Korea at the center of the Cold War?
10. Why did the Four Dragons emerge as leaders in the region?
11. How did Japanese society differ from traditional Western societies?
12. To what extent did the Four Dragons economically, politically, and socially conform or depart from
Japanese or Western counterparts?
Latin America
1. What caused the Cuban Revolution?
2. How did revolution change Mexican and Cuban society?
3. What unresolved challenges has Mexico faced during the last decade?
4. How did labor, middle class, and ideology influence in the 20th century?
5. What pressures led to radical changes during the 1950s?
6. How did the military affect Latin American politics in the 20th century?
7. What social developments has Latin America experienced this century?
8. How have trade and industry in Latin America changes from 1800 – 2000?
9. What problems confronted the newly independent ex-colonial states?
10. What achievements and disappointments have women faced in these states?
11. How have international economic conditions impacted developments?
12. What political patterns have governments and politics followed in these states?
Africa
1. What problems confronted the newly independent ex-colonial states?
2. How has ethnicity threatened much of Africa?
3. What demographics-related problems threatened Africa?
4. Why is the environment endangered in Africa?
5. What achievements and disappointments have women faced in Africa?
6. How have international economic conditions impacted development?
7. What political patterns have governments and politics followed in Africa?
8. What role has the military played in post-colonial politics?
Global Issues
1. Compare and contrast the consequences of globalization in developed and less-developed nations.
2. Discuss the differing environmental policies in democratic and authoritarian societies.
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Learning Experiences
What activities/instruction will be used to assist students in attaining the Desired Results?
Required Learning Experience:
• Students will be prepared to take the AP Exam. They will practice AP Exam questions and be strongly
encouraged to take the AP Exam.
• Students will work on developing a thesis statement and building a successful essay.
• Students will write a compare/contrast paper over topics in Unit 4.
• Students will write a change over time essay over topics in Unit 4.
• Students will write a Document Based Question (DBQ) essay.
Other Learning Experiences:
• Tests
• Quizzes
• Essay Tests
• Document Based Questions (DBQ)
• Papers
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