Download AP World History Summer Assignment 2015

AP World History Summer Assignment 2015
PART 1: Book Chapters 1-4 (pages 1-93) only & Complete Questions .
The remaining chapters will be read during the school year.
Due Tuesday, August 25, 2015
Quiz: 2nd week of school
Approximate time to complete: 1-2 weeks/daily reading
PART 2: Handout of Time Period 1 Questions
Due: Thursday, August 27, 2015
Quiz: 2nd week of school
Approximate time to complete: 60 minutes
SUGGESTION: Order & purchase the following required book to have in time for class.
Order directly from this small private publishing company or borrow from a previous student:
AP World History: An essential coursebook (2nd edition) by Ethel Wood
http://www.woodyardpublications.com/order_information
Students also find the following review book quite helpful across the school year:
AP Express World History http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/kaplan-ap-world-history-expresskaplan/1100261255?ean=9781607147879
PART 1: SUMMER BOOK CH 1-4 ONLY Pages 1-93
Due: Tuesday, August 25, 2015
Read the book: A History of the World in 6 Glasses by Tom Standage. The
author looks at the development of world civilization through beverages that
people drank in various time periods. These are (in chronological order): beer,
wine, spirits, coffee, tea, and Coca-Cola. The use of this book as a summer
reading assignment in no way represents any endorsement by SHS teachers 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.
COMPLETE READING QUESTIONS: As you read, answer the attached
reading questions for each chapter. Your answers need to be thorough, but do not
need to be lengthy—1 to 3 sentences should suffice for all —you will receive a
summer assignment project grade for this assignment. Be sure to cite the page
numbers from which you take your answers in parentheses at the end of the
sentence. Example: (p. 35). You will need this later in class tasks.
INDEPENDENT WORK: Please note that the use of any resources on the internet
regarding this book to complete your assignments will be viewed as plagiarism. In submitting your assignments, you are
pledging that the work is the result of only your effort.
PLAGIARISM: The act of taking credit for the academic work of someone else will not be tolerated in AP World History.
Your answers MAY NOT be copied directly from the book, internet, other source, or from another student. Instead they
must be paraphrased (PUT THEM IN YOUR OWN WORDS).
PART 1: “SUMMER READING” Ch1-4 ONLY
NAME: ______________________________
Due: Tuesday, August 25, 2015
nd
Quiz: 2 week of school
Directions: Students may submit hand written or typed answers. Staple the questions on top of your answer packet prior to turning in OR
you may opt to cut out the chapter questions and paste them at the top of each page of your corresponding answers. Some students
prefer to answer questions as they read. Others prefer to answer them after they read. Staple this sheet to the top of your paper. The
questions will prepare you for our first week in class.
Time Period 1: approx. 10,000 BC/BCE – 600 BC/BCE - Technological & Environmental Transformations: Agricultural Revolution and development of civilizations.
Time Period 2: approx. 600 BC/BCE – 600 AD/CE Organization and reorganization of human societies: Classical Era.
Chapter 1: A Stone Age Brew
Note: The first 4 chapters deal with early foundations of civilizations and classical civilizations, roughly from the beginning of the
Agricultural Revolution around 8000 BCE to the end of the classical era, around 600 CE.
1. What were the consequences of the Agricultural Revolution?
2. What is the archaeological evidence that supports the cultivation, harvesting, storage and processing of cereal grains?
3. Farming led to food surpluses. Explain that developments that occurred as a result of a food surplus.
4. Identify 3 reasons for the switch to farming.
5. How were grain storehouses related to the temples and the government?
6. What is the relationship of beer to the growth and development of these early civilizations? Give specific examples of how beer led to
elements of civilization such as writing.
Chapter 2: Civilized Beer
1. Mesopotamia is the “land between the 2 rivers.” What are the two rivers?
2. Explain the importance of the grain surplus to the development of civilization.
3. Identify the staples of the Egyptian and Mesopotamian diets.
4. Identify ways in which beer was used in daily life, in religion, as medicine, and in burials.
5. Explain how beer had civilizing influences and shaped the development of Mesopotamia and Egypt.
Chapter 3: The Delight of Wine
1. What factors led to the possibility of producing wine in Greece?
2. Where did wine become an important drink?
3. How did the Greeks influence Western civilization?
4. How did the Greeks judge how cultured a person was?
5. What was the importance of the symposium? How did it influence Greek culture?
6. What was Plato’s view of democracy? How did Plato’s symposium differ from others?
7. What do archaeologists know about the influence of Greek culture?
8. Explain the importance of wine in the transmission of Greek culture throughout the Mediterranean and Asia.
Chapter 4: The Imperial Wine
1. How and in what ways did the Romans adopt the Greek culture?
2. What other crops were sacrificed in order to produce wine?
3. Compare the Roman convivium to the Greek symposium.
4. Compare the ways in which Christianity and Islam viewed the drinking of wine.
5. How was Europe divided over beer and wine drinking?
6. What impact do the Greek and Roman cultures have on modern American and European cultures?
Adapted from http://mrmulford.wikispaces.com
PART 2: Time Period 1 Questions
Time Period 1: approx. 10,000 BC/BCE – 600 BC/BCE - Technological & Environmental Transformations: Agricultural Revolution and development of
civilizations.
NAME: ________________________________________ DUE: Thursday, August 27, 2015
Quiz = 2nd week of school
Directions: Answer the questions below. They may or hand written. Staple this sheet to the top of your paper.
The questions will prepare you for our first week in class.
Use the following websites to answer the questions below. You may also see pages 21-38 of AP World
History: An essential coursebook (2nd edition) by Ethel Wood to answer questions.
 http://www.angelfire.com/ca2/kushana/Neolithic.html
 http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A2054675
 http://history-world.org/neolithic.htm
1. Describe the Paleolithic lifestyle.
2. What does the term “Neolithic Revolution” refer to?
3. Did this revolution occur overnight?
3. What event led to the Neolithic Revolution?
4. What does the term “Neolithic” actually mean?
5. What does it mean to “domesticate” something?
6. What plants were the first to be domesticated?
7. What animal was the first to be domesticated?
8. What areas of the world would NOT have large domesticated animals to use as beasts of burden?
9. In what area of the world did the Neolithic Revolution first occur?
10. Would it spread by independent means or by diffusion?
11. What economic activity did farming replace?
12. How did this economic activity differ from farming?
13. How did hunters and gatherers live or what their community be like for them?
14. Why would farming be a more beneficial way of life for man?
15. Name six ways farming changed the lives of early man.
16. Why did farming, for the most part, replace hunters and gatherers?
17. Are there still hunters and gatherers in the world today?
18. Define egalitarian.
19. Define patriarchy or patriarchal
20. Define agrarian society.
21. Define pastoralism.
Speculate on GENDER roles. . .
20. Who would have hunted and why?
21. Who would have gathered and why?
22. Therefore, which gender probably made the transition to farming?
23. Why would women lose power in an agrarian society?