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AP WORLD HISTORY SYLLABUS- 2016-2017
Period 1 -Technological and Environmental Transformations-to c.600 B.C.E
Early Human Societies: Origen & Development
2.5 million-600 B.C.E
Key Concept 1.1: Big Geography and the Peopling of the Earth
Key Concept 1.2: The Neolithic Revolution and Early Agricultural Societies
Key Concept 1.3 The Development and Interactions of Early Agriculture
Pastoral and Urban Societies.
Early Human Societies, 2.5 million-600 B.C.E.
Aug.8-19, 2016
-The Neolithic Revolution & the Birth of Civilizations -The Rise of
Civilization in the M.E. & Africa -Asia’s First Civilizations: India & China
To analyze what archeological accounts:
(1) Diaries of archeologists working at Catal Huyuk and photographs of the site
at:http://catal.arch.cam.ac.uk/catal/catal.html
(2) Virtual walk through an exhibit of human prehistory
at:http://users.hpl.gr/~dilos/prehis/prem5.htm
(3) Late Neolithic settlements, Catal Hukuk, iron weapons, chariots, ziggurats,
wall decorations cuneiform, Phoenician alphabet. (CR4)
Discussion: (1)“The worst mistake in the history of the human race” By Jared
Diamond- Discover Magazine, 1987 (p. 64-67)
Example of SAQ’s: # 1- How were gender roles changed by the Neolithic
Revolution? # 2- Analyze how geography affected the development of political,
social, economic, and belief systems in the earliest civilizations in Egypt,
Mesopotamia
Key Geography: Regions, Cities, Mts., Rivers, Oceans, Deserts.
Period 2: Organization and Reorganization of Human Societies c.600 BCE
to c.600 CE.
Aug.29-Sept.30, 2016
Key Concepts 2.1. The Development and Codification of Religious and Cultural
Traditions
Key Concept 2.2. The Development of States and Empires
Key Concept 2.3 Emergence of Trans regional Networks of Communication and
Exchange
The Ancient and Classical World, 600 BCE - 600 CE
-Classical Civilizations in the Mediterranean & the Middle East Religious
Rivalries & India’s Golden Age
People & Civilizations of the AmericasSpread of Civilizations & Movement of Peoples
End of the Classical Era
Primary Textual Sources: Hammurabi’s Code, Book of the Dead, Sun Tzu’s
The Art of War, The Republic.
Visual Sources: Pictures of Mesopotamian cuneiform and Egyptian writing, lion
pillars of Ashoka.
Data Sources: list of tablets unearthed by archeologists of the Assyrian
ruler Ashurbanipal’s library searching the Nineveh Tablet Collection:
http://fincke.uni-hd.de/nineveh/index/htm
Virtual Tours http://www.ancientegypty.co.uk/menu/htm
http://www.nubianet.Long/about/_history6.html
Map Analysis of China - Later Xhou Era to the Han Era.
Map Analysis of India - Time of Ashoka/the Gupta Empire.
Map Analysis of Greece and Greek colonies, c.41 B.C.E., Alexander’s Empire,
Roman Empire
Map Analysis of religions in the Ancient World
Leader Analysis: Confucius, Gautama, Ashoka, Pericles, Alexander the Great
Societal Comparison: China/India/Greece/Rome
Selected Data Sources : Shi Huangdi’s famous tomb
http://www.utexas.edu/courses/wilson/ant304/biography
Diagram of the buried army of terra-cota soldiers
http://www.mc.maricopa.edu/dept/d10/asb/anthro2003/legacy/qin/slide 9.html
Visual Sources : The Meenakshi Sundareswarar Temple, Madurai, South India
Bronze statue of Shiva’s celestial divinity-India Different images of Buddha
throughout different regions Greek Vases, Arkesitas Cup/Roman Forum
Monumental architecture and the art of Greecet
http://wwwancientgreece.com/art/art.htlm
The Women of the Roman Empire : http://dominae.fws1.html
New technologies: yokes, saddles, stirrups, llamas, camels. lateen sails, dhow
ships.
Discussion: Sun Tzu’s The Art of War /Pericles Oration Rome and a Values
Crisis Popularization of Buddhism Architectural Greek, Roman, Persian and
South Asian designs Effects of belief systems on social structure and gender
roles
SAQ : a) Spread of Christianity and Islam b) Decline of China and India
LEQ Essay: Analyze continuities and changes in the cultural and political life of
ONE of the following societies India/China/Mediterranean
Inner/Outer Circle Discussion: The three centers of classical civilizations
Period 3 - Regional and Trans regional Interactions c. 600 C.E. to c. 1450.
Oct. 3-Nov. 4, 2016
Key Concept 3.1:Expansion and Intensification of Communication and
Exchange Networks
Key Concept 3.2: Continuity and Innovation in State Forms and Their
Interaction.
Key Concept 3.3: Increased Economic Productive Capacity and Its
Consequences.
The Postclassical World, 600- 1450 : New Faith & Commerce
The First Global Civilization: The Rise & Spread of Islam
-Abbasid Decline & the Spread of Islam to Southeast Asia -Africa
Civilizations & the Spread of Islam
-Byzantine & Orthodox Europe
Selected Primary Sources: excerpts from the Koran, The Hag of Mansa Musa,
The Examination System, The Black Death in Paris, The Incas, The Tale of Genji,
Marco Polo in China, Feudal Japan, Saladin Courage, Peasant Life during
Charlemagne.
Primary Visual Sources: Byzantine art, Mosaic of the Church of St, Vitale and
architecture of Hagia Sophia, Mosque of Ibn Tulun. Vitality of urban life in the
Islamic world in the Abbasid Age, Shahi mosque in the Hindu Kush mountains in
northwestern Pakistan. Byzantine Art, Justinian mosaic in the Church of San
Vitale, Mosaic of Christ at the Church of Chora in Istambul. Cathedral of
St.Dimitri (1194-1197).
Data Sources: The place of Sufism in the West as well as in Asia in Africa
http://www.uga.edu/islam/sufismwest.html Mansa Musa at :
http://www.mrdowling.com/609-mansamusa.html Ruler who converted Kievan
Rus to Orthodox Christianity: Vladimir I: http://
elvis.rowan.edu/~kilroy/JEK/07/15.html Prosperity of the times and binding of
women’s feet http://www.towson.edu/~loiselle/foot/html http
New technologies: yokes, saddles, stirrups, llamas, camels, lateen sails, dhow
ships.
Illustrations: Human sacrifice by the Aztecs, Archeological Evidence of the
Chimu Kingdom, Inca golden sculptures, North American pueblos in New Mexico.
Waru-Waru, terrace farming in the Andes areas. Chinampas field systems in
Central America. Mita labor in the Inca Empire. Buddhist temples in different
regions. Armed Samurai, Himeji Castle, Korean pottery. Mongol camps, sheep,
oxen, horses, camels, Mongol assault on Baghdad in 1258. Portraits of Kubilai
Khan and Chabi Marco Polo manuscript illumination and the Great Khan, Timur-I
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Map Analysis : Expansion of the Islamic Empire in the 7 and 8 C.
Map Analysis: The existing trade routes: Silk Road, Trans-Saharan
Map Analysis: Ancient Cities in the Americas: Aztecs, Incas
Map Analysis : Polynesian and Australia migrations and settlers Mapping
migration In Oceania/ Australia/ Bantu CR5d)
Leader Analysis: Muhammad, Haroun al-Rashid, Montezuma I, Charlemagne
Genghis Khan
Conflict Analysis: Sunni-Shi’te split, Crusades
Change Analysis Position of Women in Abbasid Society Societal Comparison:
Umayyad/Han/Roman empires, Abbasid Empire and nomadic groups
Document Analysis: The Thousand and One Nights, Ibn Khaldun on the Rise /
Decline of empires
Inner/Outer Circle Discussion: Gender roles in Civilizations , Conversion and
Accommodation in the Spread of World Religions.
LEQ Essay: Analyze continuities and changes along the Silk Road from 200
B.C.E. to 1460 C.E.
LEQ Essay: Analyze continuities and changes that resulted from the spread of
Islam into ONE of the following regions in the period between 800 C.E. and 1450
C.E. India before /after Islamic Spread
LEQ- Essay : Compare the process of state-building in TWO of the following in
the period 600 C.E. to 1450 C.E. -Islamic States-City States-Mongol
Khanates. Assess arguments about how geography molded societies in the
Polynesian Islands
DBQ: The Mongols and the extension of their conquests
Period 4: Global Interactions
Nov. 7-Dec. 2, 2016
Key Concepts: 4.1. Globalizing Networks of Communication and Exchange Key
Concept 4.2 New Forms of Social Organization and Modes of Production
Key Concept 4.3. State Consolidation and Imperial Expansion
The Early Modern World-1450-1750: The World Shrinks
-The World Economy
-Early Latin America -Transformation of the West -Africans & the Atlantic
Slave Trade -The Rise of Russia -The Muslim Empires -Asian Transitions in
an Age of Global Change
Selected Primary Sources: Chronicles of Vasco de Gama’s First Voyage, Letter
from the First Letter of Christopher Columbus Chronicle of Guinea, The True
History of the Conquest of Spain. Assess these sources for their tone and
cultural points of view.
Selected Primary Visual Sources: The Codex of Mendoza
Map Analysis: Zheng He ‘s expeditions
Map Analysis: European Trading networks in Asia/ Oceania and
Polynesia migrations/ Spanish/Portuguese expeditions/The Atlantic Slave Trade
Leader Analysis: Ming Admiral Zheng He, Henry the Navigator, Vasco Da
Gama, Peter the Great, Suleiman the Great, Qianlong (CR5e)
Change Analysis: Columbian Exchange (guns, germs and gold)
Societal Comparison: Europeans and native populations
Document Analysis: Western Conquerors: Tactics and motives: Vision of the
Vanquished, An African Description of the Middle Passage Religious Syncretism:
Vodoo/Catholicism in Latin America
Illustrations: caravels, junks, potatoes, maize, sugar, okra,rice, domesticated
animals, llamas, alpacas, Codices in Meso America, Woodcut carvings on
portrayal of native Americans in 1505.
Inner /Outer Circle: Discussion: Causation and the Western Expansion
Slavery and Human Society
Assess: Collision at Cajamarca:
SAQ: Why didn’t Inca Atahuallpa defend his empire from the Spanish on the first
encounter?
DBQ : The Columbian Exchange
LEQ Essay : Questions on Muslim and African slavery
LEQ: Compare the historical processes of empire building in the Spanish
maritime empire during the period from 1450 through 1800 with the historical
processes of empire building in ONE of the following-based empires - The
Ottoman Empire & The Russian Empire
LEQ Essay: Analyze the social and economic transformations that occurred in
the Atlantic world as a result of new contacts among Western Europe, Europe,
Africa and the Americas from 1492-1750
MOCK EXAM: Sat. Dec. 10, 2016-
Next page: Semester I
Semester II
PERIOD 5:
Industrialization and Global Integration, c 1750-1900 CE
Jan.9-March 6, 2017
Key Concept 5.1: Industrialization and Global Capitalism
Key Concept 5.2: Imperialism and Nation State Formation
Key Concept 5.3: Nationalism, Revolution, and Reform
Key Concept 5.4 : Global Migration
The Dawn of the Industrial Age -The Industrial Age, 1750-1900
-Industrialization & Imperialism:
The Making of the European Global Order
-The Consolidation of Latin America
-Civilizations in Crisis: The Ottoman Empire, Islamic Heartlands, & Qing
China -Russia & Japan: Industrialization Outside the West
Primary Sources:
The Declaration of the Rights of Man, The Declaration of the Rights of Women,
Burke’s Reflection on the Revolution of France, The Jamaica Letter, excerpts
from the Communist Manifesto,, excerpts from the Origin of Species, Writings of
Adam Smith or John Stuart Mill.
Primary Visual Sources: Textile factory in India, Copper mines in Mexico, Gold
and diamond mines in South Africa. Transportation: RR., steamships.
Communication: telegraphs, canals.
Data Sources: Spread of industrialization
http://www.forham.edu/halsall/mod/indrevtabs.1html
http://nchs.ss.ucla.edu/Products/111-the-industrial-revolution-simulationnh153.aspx
Map Analysis: Imperialism and industrialization: empires/settler colonies
Map Analysis: Scramble for Africa
Map Analysis: Consumer markets: British in India and China
Map Analysis: Colonial Powers and their colonies: British in South Australia,
New Zealand, Belgium in Congo, French in Algeria, Dutch in Indonesia.
Leader Analysis: Toussaint L’ Ouverture, Simon Bolivar, Queen Victoria (CR4)
Comparative Analysis: Latin American independent movements: Haitian
Revolution. Challenge of the Marathas to the Mughal Sultans
Change Analysis: Effects of new inventions: Steam engine, telegraph, RR
Conflict Analysis: Establishment of land empires in Asia, Boer War, Europeans
and Hawaiians or Maoris.
DBQ: Industrialization in the West
Economic Imperialism: Opium Wars in China United States investment in Latin
America ,United Fruit Co.
Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation The political, social and
economic effects of imperialism in Africa (documentary) (CR 13)
Enlightenment thinkers: Rousseau, Voltaire, Locke Nationalism: German Nation,
Liberian nationalism
Ideologies: Anti-colonial Movements: Indian Revolt 1857, Boxer Rebellion New
States: Global Migration: Tanzimat Reforms, Meiji Japan, Emancipation of the
Serfs Self –Strengthening Movement, , Muhammad Ali’s development of cotton
industry in Egypt. Taiping Rebellion, The Xhosa Cattle Killing Movement
New States: Global Migration: The Zulu Kingdom, Siam Coerced and semicoerced labor migration Japanese agricultural workers in the Pacific, Italians in
Argentina Ethnic enclaves: Chinese in Southeast Asia, the Caribbean, South and
Central America. Africa: Social Darwinism
Document Analysis: Women in the Industrial Revolution, Bolivar’s Jamaica’s
Letter, Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen
Discussion: Inner/Outer Circle: The Communist Manifesto Emancipation of
Women: Olympe de Gouge Essay Writing: Compare: Causes and Effects of
Migration on two of the following societies: Chinese in Southeast Asia and Latin
America
Primary Textual Sources: The Treaty of Versailles, Documents on alliances in
WWI memoirs of WWII soldiers, speeches by leaders of African independence
movements, Student manifestos in 1968, and photographs of student and worker
protests in Tiananmen square in 1989.
Soviet War in Afghanistan: Declassified documents at National security Archives:
http://www.picosearch.com/cgi-bin/ts.pl
Primary Visual Sources: Advertisement around the world on consumerism,
gender differences. Data Sources: population growth statistics in relation to
health care, literacy rates available at: http://www.gapminder.org
Period 6: Accelerating Global Change and Realignments: 1900 CE.-present
Key Concept 6.1- Science ant the Environment
Key Concept 6.2 - Global Conflicts and Their Consequences Key Concept 6.3
-New Conceptualization of Global Economy, Society and Culture.
Period VI: The Newest Stage of World History: 1900-present
Mar. 6-31, 2017
- World War I & the Crisis of the European Global Order
- The World between Wars: revolutions, Depression & Authoritarian
Response
- A Second Global Conflict & the End of the European World Order
- Western Society & Eastern Europe during the Cold War
- Latin America: Revolutions & Reactions in the 21st C.
- Africa, the Middle East & Asia in the Era of Independence
- Rebirth & Revolution: Nation Building in East Asia & the Pacific Rim
- Power, Politics, and Conflict in World History 1990-2015
- Globalization & Resistance - Leader Analysis: Nkrumah Kenyatta, Mandela, Mao Zedong, Stalin,
Yeltsin ,M. Gandhi, Martin Luther King
Map Analysis: WW I, WW II, Iron Curtain Europe Mexican, Chinese, Cuban,
Iranian Revolutions. Decline of Ottoman, Russian, Qing empires India
Before and After Nehru, Iran before and After Khomeini
Movilization of State resources, Total wars, Nanjing, Hiroshima, Revolutions:
Conflict Analysis: Change Analysis: Military Conflicts: Cambodian
Genocide, Rwanda Genocide, Dictatorships in Chile, Spain, Uganda
Transitional Movements: Communism-, Collapse of Communism, Pan
Africanism
Migration: South Asians to Britain, Filipinos to the USA, Palestinians, Darfurians,
Ethnic Violence: The Holocaust, Cambodia, Rwanda
International Organizations: The United Nations, The International Monetary
Fund, (IMF) UNICEF, World Health Organizations (WHO), The European
Union, NAFTA, Mercosur. Multinational Corporations: Coca-Cola, Sony
Science and the Environment: Theory of relativity, Quantum mechanics,
Vaccines Epidemics: Ebola, HIV/AIDS, Population growth
Illustrations: Military technology: tanks, planes, nuclear weapons.
Challengers of war: “Guernica” by Picasso, popular culture, video
games Alternative groups: Anti-Apartheid Movement in South Africa, IRA,
Al-Qaeda. Global Cultural Spread: World Cup Soccer, The Olympics,
Hollywood, Document Analysis: UN Declaration of Human Rights, Negritude
Inner/Outer Circle: Liberation theology Students will present current events as to
different world political, economic and social situations based on different
sources. They will examine present conflicts: migration issues, human
rights, globalization, social problems, energy, natural disasters and the
role of nation leaders in different regions of the globe
April 25-April -28, 2017 Students prepare individual or group projects for review
Sat. May 6, 2017: Mock Exam
College Board Exam: Thurs. May 11, 2017