Download AP World History Independent Study

AP World History Independent Study
Summer Assignment 2015
This should be done by the first day of school. You will have to take a test on Unit One
within the first week of school.
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Read Chs. 1-3 of Ways of the World and complete the attached reading guide.
Referenced page numbers may be slightly different in your edition of the
textbook.
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Read "Part II - About the AP World History Exam" in the Princeton Review Book.
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Read "Ch. 6 - Technological and Environmental Transformations: to c. 600
B.C.E." in the Princeton Review Book in order to study for the Unit One test.
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Familiarize yourself with the textbook website here: Ways of the World
(http://bcs.bedfordstmartins.com/strayer1e/). It has several resources that will
be helpful in your studies.
If you have questions or comments, I will periodically check my e-mail throughout the
summer: [email protected]
Name____________________________________________________
Per.______
Robert W. Strayer
Ways of the World: A Brief Global History
Ways of the World: A Brief Global History with Sources
Chapter 1, First Peoples: Populating the Planet to 10,000 B.C.E, Study Guide (Original: pp. 333; With Sources: pp. 3-47)
Out of Africa to the Ends of the Earth: First Migrations
1. What was the first hominid species to use fire in a controlled fashion?
2. Where did Homo sapiens first emerge?
3. How were settlements in Africa planned?
4. To where did humans migrate after they left Africa?
5. What occurred as European peoples moved southward into warmer regions?
6. What new technologies and artifacts emerged in Central Europe, Ukraine, and Russia?
7. Describe Dreamtime and what it represents.
8. What was the route of migration into North America?
9. What does the wide distribution of Clovis technology suggest?
10. How did Austronesian migrations differ from other early patterns of human movement?
The Ways We Were
11. In what ways did a gathering and hunting economy shape other aspects of Paleolithic
societies?
12. Why did Paleolithic societies have more leisure time?
13. In what way did Paleolithic people alter the natural environment?
14. What does the presence of Venus figurines across Europe suggest?
15. Why did some Paleolithic peoples abandon earlier, more nomadic ways and begin to live
more settled lives?
Comparing Paleolithic Societies
16. According to Richard Lee, what were the most prominent features of the various aspects of
San life?
Technology—
Diet/Food—
Work—
17. What is the idea behind the system of unequal gift exchange?
18. What important transformation in technology occurred among the Chumash and what did it
bring to them?
19. In what ways, and why, did Chumash culture differ from that of the San?
20. Why was the Brotherhood of the Tomol Guild so important?
Explain the significance of each of the following:
Hadza—
“insulting the meat”—
Jomon culture—
megafaunal extinction—
n/um—
trance dance—
Name_______________________________________________________
Per.______
Robert W. Strayer
Ways of the World: A Brief Global History
Ways of the World: A Brief Global History with Sources
Chapter 2, First Farmers: The Revolutions of Agriculture, 10,000 B.C.E -3,000 B.C.E., Study
Guide, (Original: pp. 35-53; With Sources: pp. 49-83)
The Agricultural Revolution in World History
1. What were the revolutionary transformations brought about by the Neolithic or Agricultural
Revolution?
2. What was the importance of “intensification” in the Neolithic Age?
Comparing Agricultural Beginnings
3. What accounts for the emergence of agriculture after countless millennia of human life
without it?
4. What were the indications that the transition to a fully agricultural and domesticated new way
of life took place quickly in the Fertile Crescent region?
5. Why did animal domestication precede the domestication of plants in Africa? (present day
Sudan)
6. While sorghum was the first grain to be tamed in Eastern Africa, what plants were important
crops in West Africa?
7. Why did the peoples of America lack sources of protein, manure, and power to pull carts?
The Globalization of Agriculture
8. In what ways did agriculture spread?
9. Describe the development of agricultural societies in the southern half of he African continent
beginning around 3,000 B.C.E.
10. Where was agriculture sometimes resisted? Why?
11. What was the impact on the environment from farmers and herders?
Social Variations in the Age of Agriculture
12. Describe the 3 different kinds of societies that emerged out of the Agricultural Revolution.
(Who were they? How were they organized? pp. 48-52)
13. After reading about Catalhuyuk in Turkey, why do you think the people designed their city
the way they did?
Visit these websites for more background information:
http://www.focusmm.com/civcty/cathyk04.htm
http://www.smm.org/catal/introduction/ This website is interactive. 
Second Thoughts
What’s the significance? Do you know the significance of these terms?
Broad spectrum diet
Fertile Crescent
Teosinte
Diffusion
Bantu migration
People of Australia
Banpo
Secondary production revolution
Pastoral societies
Catalhuyuk
Agricultural villages
Stateless societies
Chiefdoms
Domestication
Animal husbandry
Big Picture Questions
1. The Agricultural Revolution marked a decisive turning point in human history. What
evidence might you offer to support this claim, and how might you argue against it?
2. How did early agricultural societies differ from those of the Paleolithic era? How does
the example of settled gathering and hunting peoples such as the Chumash complicate
this comparison?
3. Was the Agricultural Revolution inevitable? Why did it occur so late in the story of
humankind?
4. “The Agricultural Revolution provides evidence for ‘progress’ in human affairs.” How
would you evaluate this statement?
Maps - Locate and label the cities and countries on the map below.
Fertile crescent (shade in the area)
Jerico
Palestine
Iraq
Catalhuyuk
Iran
Mesopotamia
Anatolia
Sudan
Turkey
Nigeria
Star the origin of the Bantu people
Name____________________________________________________________
Per.______
Robert W. Strayer
Ways of the World: A Brief Global History
Ways of the World: A Brief Global History with Sources
Chapter 3, First Civilizations: Cities, States, and Unequal Societies, 3500 B.C.E.-500 B.C.E.,
Study Guide (Original: pp. 55-84; With Sources: pp. 85-114)
1. How were the new civilizations different from the earlier agricultural villages, pastoral
societies, and chiefdoms?
Something New: The Emergence of Civilizations
2. Where and when did the first civilizations emerge?
3. What was unique about each of the initial six civilizations?
● Sumer—
● Egypt—
● Norte Chico—
● Indus Valley—
● China—
● Olmecs--
4. What explanations are given for the rise of civilizations?
5. How does Robert Carneiro approach the question of the rise of civilizations?
6. What was the role of cities in the early civilizations?
The Erosion of Equality
7. In what ways was social inequality expressed in early civilizations?
8. In the rival Mesopotamian cities, what was the role of female and male slaves?
9. Describe slavery in all of the First Civilizations.
10. Compare the practice of slavery in ancient times from region to region.
11. In what ways have historians tried to explain the origins of patriarchy?
12. How did Mesopotamia and Egyptian patriarchy differ from each other?
● Mesopotamia:
●
Egypt:
The Rise of the State
13. What were the sources of state authority in the First Civilizations?
14. Compare and Contrast Mesopotamian and Egyptian civilizations.
Mesopotamia
Political:
Political
Environment:
Environment:
Culture:
Culture:
Egypt
15. In what ways were Mesopotamian and Egyptian civilizations shaped by their interactions
with near and distant neighbors?
Reflections: “Civilization”: What’s in a Word?
16. What are the reservations some scholars have with the term “civilization?”
Explain the significance of each of the following:
Quipu—
Oracle bones—
Mandate of Heaven—
Harappa/Mohenjo Daro—
Code of Hammurabi—
Cuneiform—
Hierglyphs—
Epic of Gilgamesh—
Osiris—
Hebrews—
Phoenicians—
Nubia—
Hittites—
Hyksos—
Fill out the following chart for 2 of the 7 First Civilizations you learned about:
Civilization:
Specific Ways This
Civilization Emerged:
Generic Causes:
Location:
Role of Cities:
Role of Social
Inequalities:
Development of
Legal Codes:
Emergence of
Patriarchy:
Emergence of
Writing:
Specific Results/Impact of Each
Generic Cause and the Way This
Civilization Emerged:
Civilization:
Specific Ways This
Civilization Emerged
Generic Causes:
Location:
Role of Cities:
Role of Social
Inequalities:
Development of
Legal Codes
Emergence of
Patriarchy
Emergence of
Writing
Specific Results/Impact of Each
Generic Cause and the Way This
Civilization Emerged