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AP World History Students,
You have registered for Advanced Placement World History for the Fall of 2017. This course is a challenging
course that offers motivated students the opportunity to immerse themselves in a global overview of past
events. AP World History offers students the opportunity to interact with history through the steps a historian
would take in analyzing historical worldwide events.
AP World History is a year long college level course that traces history from its foundations to the present. The
course includes the use of analytical reading and writing skills, critical evaluation of primary and secondary
sources, analysis of historiography, presentations, discussion groups, development of document based
questions, comparison, and continuity and change over time.
This course emphasizes student centered learning. Each week we will have lessons that cover a particular
region of the world in a chronological period. As we progress, we will start integrating these regions and time
periods together. Lectures are presented to clarify particularly difficult aspects of the text or subject matter.
Lectures are ​not​ prepared to “go over” what student did not read prior to the lecture. Students should come
prepared to class with reading notes and follow up questions to fully participate in the lecture, discussions, and
activities in class.
In order to prepare for the course, summer work is assigned and due the first day of class. Summer work will
be included in the fall grade and quizzes and unit test over the material will be given in class within the first
three weeks.
Questions are best directed to me through email as I will periodically check it over the summer. If you have any
questions or concerns, the sooner you contact me the better. I look forward to seeing you all in the fall.
Sincerely,
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Chapter 1: Before History Pages 5-22
Read Chapter 1 and answer the following questions. Include any words you are unfamiliar with or questions that come to mind during your
reading. You may skip the section ​The Evolution of Homo Sapiens​ pages 6-10.
Eyewitness: Lucy and the Archaeologists
1. What is the difference between prehistory and history?
2. What are sources of history?
3. What are the difficulties in available sources from prehistory and the earliest civilizations?
I.
The Evolution of Homo sapiens - SKIP
II.
Paleolithic Society
A. Economy and Society of Hunting and Gathering Peoples
1. Why was their more equality in paleolithic societies?
2. Why was their more equality between men and women in paleolithic societies?
3. How did Paleolithic people demonstrate intelligence and sophistication?
4. How large were paleolithic societies and how were they able to grow?
5. Where did permanent settlements first develop?
6. Your question(s)?
B. Paleolithic Culture
1. What do the burial sites of Neandertal Peoples represent?
2. How has the creativity of Homo sapiens been demonstrated in Paleolithic times?
3. What is the value of learning from previous generations?
4. What significance do the venus figurines have?
5. What significance do the paleolithic cave paintings hold?
6. Your question(s)?
III.
The Neolithic Era and the Transition to Agriculture
A. Origins of Agriculture
1. What is the difference between the Paleolithic and Neolithic Era?
2. Why was the development of agriculture impractical before Neolithic Era?
3. How did women and men contribute in the formation of agricultural economies?
4. What animals were suited for domestication in the Americas?
5. How did agricultural activities spread?
6. What was advantages and disadvantages of Agricultural society?
7. Your question(s)?
B. Early Agricultural Society
1. How did agriculture activity encourage the emergence of villages and towns?
2. How did agriculture activity encourage specialization of labor?
3. What work do you dream of doing as an adult?
4. What three areas did specialization first occur in?
5. What are was the most significant in your opinion? Why?
6. How did social distinctions and social inequality develop in agricultural society?
7. Why was property ultimate sign of wealth and status?
8. Your question(s)?
C. Neolithic Culture
1. How did Neolithic society develop scientifically?
2. How did Neolithic life influence religious views?
3. Your question(s)?
D. The Origins of Urban Life
1. Why did the city develop in the neolithic period?
2. In what ways was the city different from the villages of earlier Neolithic age?
3. What types of professionals develop out of specialization?
4. How did cities influence larger area?
5. Are there drawbacks to rise of complex societies? Is every aspect of civilization good? Are there still problems today
that stretch back to rise of civilization?
6. Your question(s)
Describe the similarities and differences between the paleolithic and neolithic ages. What allowed for the differences? How did these differences
affect development after the neolithic age?
AP Chapter 2: Early Societies in Southwest Asia and the Indo-European Migrations
Eyewitness Gilgamesh: The Man and the Myth
1.
Why is Gilgamesh so well known?
2.
What role do myth and legend have in historical research?
3.
How did productive agricultural societies support the development of complex societies?
4.
What was the significance of people from different societies interacting?
I.
II.
III.
The Quest for Order
A. Mesopotamia: “The Land between the Rivers”
1.
How did the Sumer people become dominate in Mesopotamia by 3000 B.C.E.?
2.
Who are Semitic peoples and what were their interactions with Sumer people?
3.
How did cities differ from neolithic villages?
4.
Why did Sumerian cities develop government institutions?
5.
What projects did authorities organize?
6.
How did Kings gain and maintain control?
7.
Your question(s)?
B. The Course of Empire
1.
How and why did Sargon establish an empire in Mesopotamia?
2.
How did Sargon maintain power and expand his empire?
3.
Why did Sargon’s empire collapse By 2150 B.C.E.?
4.
How did Hammurabi improve administration of an empire?
5.
How did Hammurabi use law and religion to consolidate authority
6.
Your questions(s)?
C. The Later Mesopotamian Empire
1.
How did the Assyrian empire establish itself?
2.
What contributions did the Assyrians make to Mesopotamia?
3.
Who was Nebuchadnezzar and what is he known for?
4.
Your question(s)?
The Formation of a Complex Society and Sophisticated Cultural Traditions
A. Economic Specialization and Trade
1.
What were the disadvantages and advantages of Bronze?
2.
Where did iron work in Mesopotamia come from?
3.
What were the advantages of iron over other metals?
4.
When and where did developments of the wheel begin?
5.
Where did Mesopotamians travel by ship?
6.
How far did Mesopotamia trade and what items did they trade for?
7.
Your question(s)?
B. The Emergence of a Stratified Patriarchal Society
1.
Why did social classes form?
2.
Describe the social classes and their position/responsibilities?
3.
What was the source of slaves and what were their options for freedom?
4.
How was Mesopotamia a patriarchal society?
5.
How did women’s roles change over time in Mesopotamia?
6.
Sources from the Past: Hammurabi’s Laws on Family Relationships (page 36)
a) Based on the Hammurabi’s laws, what role did women have in society and what rights did they have?
C. The Development of Written Cultural Traditions
1.
Why did civilizations need written records?
2.
How did cuneiform differ from pictographs?
3.
What advantages did education provide?
4.
Why were astronomy and mathematics such a crucial science?
5.
How did literature communicate abstract ideas?
6.
Your question(s)?
The Broader Influence of Mesopotamian Society
A. Hebrews, Israelites, and Jews
1.
Where did Hebrew people originate?
2.
Where and when did Hebrew people establish a kingdom?
3.
What was unique about Judaism compare to other local religions?
4.
What happened to the political kingdom and people?
5.
How did Hebrews become known as Jews?
6.
Your Question(s)?
B.
IV.
The Phoenicians
1.
How did Phoenicians differ from other Mesopotamian peoples
2.
Where did the Phoenicians trade
3.
How did alphabetic writing differ from cuneiform?
4.
Source from the Past:israelites’ Relations with Neighboring Peoples
a) Why and how did Solomon interact with the Phoenicians?
The Indo-European Migrations
A. Indo-European Origins
1.
Why do languages in Europe, Southwest Asia and India have similar features?
2.
Where was the original homeland of Indo-European people?
3.
What advantage did hores give Indo-European people?
B. Indo-European Expansion and Its Effects
1.
Why were the Hittites the most influential Indo-European migrants in ancient times?
2.
Which Indo European migration had the largest impact and why?
3.
What were the main contributions of Indo-Europeans?
4.
Your Question(s)?
Essay Prompt:
Compare and contrast the religious beliefs of Mesopotamians, Egyptians, Hebrews, and Assyrians. What do the differences tell us about these societies?
AP Chapter 3: Early African Societies and the Bantu Migrations
Eyewitness: Herodotus and the Making of a Mummy
1. What did the mummification process of Egypt reflect?
2. What did Mesopotamia and Egypt have in common?
I.
II.
Early Agricultural Society in Africa
A. Climatic Change and The Development of Agriculture in Africa
1. What societies developed in ancient Africa?
2. How did agricultural production in Africa first begin?
3. What was the effect of desiccation in the Sahara?
4. Why was the Nile River Valley so fertile?
5. Your question(s)?
B. Egypt and Nubia: “Gifts of the Nile”
1. Why was Egypt more prosperous than Nubia?
2. How did agricultural production support the development of complex societies?
3. How did Sudanic states influence the political development of Nile River Valley?
4. Your question(s)?
C. The Unification of Egypt
1. By what means did Menes unified Egypt?
2. What do the pyramids represent?
3. What was the relationship between Egypt and Nubia?
4. Sources from the Past: Harkhuf’s Expeditions to Nubia page 56
a) What benefits did Egyptians like Harkhuf gain from interactions with Nubia?
5. Your question(s)?
D. Turmoil and Empire
1. How did the Hyksos gain control of Egypt?
2. In what ways did the New Kingdom differ from the Old Kingdom?
3. Why and how did the New Kingdom extend its authority?
4. Why did Egyptian New Kingdom collapse?
5. Your question(s)?
The Formation of Complex Societies and Sophisticated Cultural Traditions
A. The Emergence of Cities and Stratified Societies
1. How did dense population benefit the formation of society?
2. What role did cities have in Egypt and Nubia?
3. How did the social structure of Egypt differ from Mesopotamia?
4. What role did women have in Egyptian and Nubian society?
5. How did women have more influence in African societies over Mesopotamia?
6. Your question(s)?
B. Economic Specialization and Trade
1. When and why did Egypt and Nubia advance in metallurgy?
2. What did Egypt and Nubia use for transportation?
3. Why was Egypt dependent on trade?
4. Where and what did Egypt trade?
5. Your question(s)?
C. Early Writing in the Nile Valley
1. How did Egypt use develop a writing system?
2. How did formal education and literacy influence social distinctions?
3. Why is the inability to translate meroitic writing a disadvantage for the historian?
4. Your question(s)?
D. The Development of Organized Religious Traditions
1. Why would an agricultural society honor deities like Amon and Re?
2. What was unique about the religion proposed by Pharaoh Amenhotep IV
3. Sources from the Past: the Great Hymn to Aten page 64
a) What was the role of Aten as creator and sustainer of life?
4. How did Egyptians differ in their views on death from the Mesopotamians?
5. What religious beliefs did Osiris represent to Egyptians?
6. Who influenced nubian religious beliefs?
7. Your question(s)?
III.
Bantu Migrations and Early Agricultural Societies of Sub-Saharan Africa
A. The Dynamics of Bantu Expansion
1. Where did the Bantu people originate?
2. Why and how did the Bantu migrate?
3. Why didn’t an complex society, such as Egypt or Nubia, develop with Bantu peoples?
4. Your question(s)?
B. Early Agricultural Societies of Sub-Saharan Africa
1. What did the Bantu migration diffuse in sub-saharan African?
2. How did religious beliefs of the Bantu change over the migration?
Essay Prompts:
Choose two of the following:
A. Compare (similarities & differences) Egyptian and Nubian Society
B. Compare (similarities & differences) Mesopotamian societies to Egyptian Societies
C. Compare (similarities & differences) Bantu Migrations to Indo-European Migrations
Chapter 4: Early Societies in South Asia
Eyewitness: Indra, War God of the Aryans
1. Why was Indra so prominent to Aryan people?
2. How and where did civilization first start in South Asia?
3. What happened to the Aryans and Dravidian peoples?
I. Harappan Society
A. Foundations of Harappan Society
1.
Where and why did the Harappan society first develop?
2.
Why is information limited on the Harappan society?
3.
How does the Indus River compared to the Nile river?
4.
How did Agricultural surplus support the development of cities?
5.
What is the significance of standardization in Harappa and Mohenjo-Daro?
6.
Who and how did Harappans trade with?
7.
Your question(s)?
B. Harappan Society and Culture
1.
How do we know there was social classes in Harappan society?
2.
Why was the Harappan society concerned with fertility?
3.
Why did the Harappan society collapse?
4.
Your question(s)?
II. The Indo-European Migrations and Early Aryan India
A. The Aryans and India
1.
What was the main occupation of early Aryans?
2.
What are the Vedas?
3.
Whom did the Aryans have conflict with in India?
4.
What changes occurred with the Aryans settling by Ganges River?
5.
How did increased reliance of agriculture change political system?
6.
Why was there no large imperial state in India during this time?
7.
Your question(s)?
B. Origins of the Caste System
1.
What is the caste system and how did skin color factor into it?
2.
How was the caste system divided?
3.
How was the caste system flexible?
4.
Why was the caste system foundation of social organization?
5.
Sources from the Past: Rig Veda on the Origin of the Castes page 79
1.
How does the origin of creation impact the status of social groups?
6.
Your question(s)?
C. The Development of Patriarchal Society
1.
What was the role of women in Aryan society?
2.
How did sati demonstrate subordination of women in society?
III. Religion in the Vedic Age
A.
Aryan Religion
1.
What does the god Indra reflect about Aryan society?
2.
What does the god Varuna reflect about Aryan religious beliefs?
3.
Why did the Aryans sacrifice regularly?
4.
How did Dravidian beliefs influence religion in India?
5.
Your question(s)?
B.
The Blending of Aryan and Dravidian Values
1..
What are the Upanishads?
2.
Explain the significance of Brahman in Hinduism?
3.
Sources From the Past: The Mundaka Upanishad on the Nature of Brahman
4.
How does the Mundaka Upanishad compare to the Rig Veda on page 79
5.
What is the cycle for an individual soul in Hinduism?
6.
What is the relationship between the physical world and spiritual in Hinduism?
7.
Your question(s)?
Essay Prompt:
Compare (similarities and differences) South Asian societies to one of the following:
·
Mesopotamia
·
Egypt
·
Nubia
Chapter 5: Early Society in East Asia pages 87-104
Eyewitness: King Yu and the Taming of the Yellow River
1.
How does legends of three sage kings represent the development of societies in East Asia?
2.
How and where did agricultural development progress in East Asia?
3.
What role did nomadic peoples have in the development of societies here?
I.
Political Organization in Early China
A. Early Agricultural Society and the Xia Dynasty
1.
How does the Yellow River compared to the river valleys in other parts of the world?
2.
Why did hereditary states emerge in China?
3.
How did the Xia dynasty influence China?
4.
Extra Credit: Find current information regarding Xia dynasty and bring in copy and summary
5.
Your Question(s)?
B. The Shang Dynasty
1.
How did technology assist the rise and success of Shang dynasty?
2.
How did the Shang dynasty support a large military?
3.
How was the Shang dynasty organized politically
4.
What does the Shang Capital at Ao and Yin demonstrate about the dynasty?
5.
What does the tomb of Lady Fu Hao demonstrate about the culture?
6.
Your Questions(s)?
C. The Zhou Dynasty
1.
How did the Zhou dynasty rise to power?
2.
Explain the principle and significance of Mandate of Heaven.
3.
How was the Zhou dynasty organized politically?
4.
What caused the collapse of the Zhou dynasty? (include the role of iron)
5.
What was the Warring States Period?
6.
Your Question(s)?
II.
Society and Family in Ancient China
A. The Social Order
1.
How did the elite differ from other classes in China?
2.
Describe the social structure of China.
3.
Where did China extend long distance trade?
4.
Sources from the Past: Peasants’ Protest
a) What does the passage indicate about the position of peasants and their relationship with landowners?
5.
Your Question(s)?
B. Family and Patriarchy
1.
Define the veneration of ancestors and its influence on Chinese culture.
2.
How do we honor the departed today?
3.
Why did patriarchy intensify over time in China
4.
What influence did women have in early China compared to later in Zhou dynasty?
5.
Sources from the Past: Family Solidarity in Ancient China
a) According to the Book of Songs, why was the relationship between brothers the most important?
6.
Your Question(s)?
III.
Early Chinese Writing and Cultural Development
A. Oracle Bones and Early Chinese Writing
1.
How did religion differ in early China compared to other societies?
2.
What were oracle bones?
3.
How did early Chinese writing compare to other societies?
4.
Your Question(s)?
B. Thought and Literature in Ancient China
1.
What kind of literature was written during the Zhou dynasty
2.
Why is there so little written record left from early China?
3.
Your Question(s)?
IV.
Ancient China and the Larger World
A. Chinese Cultivators and Nomadic Peoples of Central Asia
1.
Why did nomadic societies predominant in central asia?
2.
What were the advantages and disadvantages of nomadic society to agricultural societies?
3.
How did nomads organize politically?
4.
Your question(s)?
B. The Southern Expansion of Chinese Society
1.
How did the Yangzi Valley compare to the Yellow River Valley in cultivation?
2.
What did increased agricultural production in China led to?
Essay Prompt:
Compare Chinese societies with one of the following: Mesopotamia, Egypt, or India
Chapter 6: Early Societies in the Americas and Oceania pages 107-124
Eyewitness: Chan Bahlum Spills Blood to Honor the Gods
1.
Why was the shedding of blood crucial to Mayan rituals?
2.
How did human first reach Americas, Australia, and New Guinea?
3.
What was the similarities and difference in societies of Pacific Islands compared to other places?
I.
Early Societies in Mesoamerica
A. The Olmecs
1.
Why and where did early agriculture first developed in the Americas?
2.
How did development in America differ from other parts of world?
3.
Where and how did the Olmec establish themselves?
4.
What is the most distinctive creations of the Olmecs?
5.
What did the Olmecs produce for trade?
6.
In what ways did the Olmecs influence later Mesoamerican societies?
7.
Your Question(s)
B. Heirs of the Olmecs: The Maya
1.
Where did the Mayan establish themselves?
2.
How did the Mayan enhance agriculture in the region?
3.
What was used for money in Maya society?
4.
How did the Mayan organize themselves politically?
5.
What was the purpose of Mayan warfare?
6.
How did the Maya society fall into decline?
7.
Your Question(s)?
C. Maya Society and Religion
1.
How did the Mayan organize their social hierarchy?
2.
Describe the purpose of the Mayan calendars?
3.
Why are examples of Mayan writing so few?
4.
How did the Mayan religion reflect the role of agriculture?
5.
Why did the Mayan play the ballgame?
6.
Your Question(s)?
D. Heirs of the Olmecs: Teotihuacan
1.
Where was the City of Teotihuacan and why did it develop there?
2.
Why were priests crucial to society?
3.
What goods were Teotihuacan known for?
4.
What do we know about the religion of Teotihuacan?
5.
Why did Teotihuacan go into decline?
6.
Your Question(s)?
II.
Early Societies in South America
A. Early Andean Society and the Chavin Cult
1.
Why was there little contact between societies in Mesoamerica and South America?
2.
What did early agricultural development in South America include?
3.
What do you know about religion in early South America?
4.
When and where did cities occur in South America?
5.
Your Question(s)?
B. Early Andean States: Mochica
1.
Why and how did Andean states integrate economic zones?
2.
What evidence did the Mochica state leave and its significance?
3.
Your Question(s)?
III.
Early Societies in Oceania
A. Early Societies in Australia and New Guinea
1.
How were societies in Australia and New Guinea separated and the difference it made?
2.
What skills did Austronesian people possess and how far did they migrate?
3.
What impact did agriculture have in New Guinea?
4.
How did the Austronesian peoples organize politically?
5.
Sources from the Past: The Voyage of Ru
a) What does the story indicate about the nature of social and gender relations in early Pacific societies?
6.
Your Question(s)?
Essay Prompts:
1.
Compare Mesoamerican societies to Andean Societies?
2.
Compare American societies to one of the following: Mesopotamia, Egypt, India, or China?
Or
Compare Austronesian migration to one of the following: Indo-European or Bantu migration