Download AP World History- Themes

I will identify and analyze the five
themes of World History.
• Why did you decide to take AP World History?
• What do you hope to get out of this class?
• If you could categorize world history, how would you do it?
What types of categories would you choose?
• You will attend (Physically and Mentally)
• You will complete all assignments
• You will make an effort to succeed
• Be attentive and listen to those who are speaking
• Speak like a lady or a gentleman (No Cussing or offensive
language)
• Treat other how you want to be treated
• Keep your classroom and the materials clean and in proper
order
• Wait until the teacher is done with instructions before asking for
things that are not part of the lesson
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Be on time
Be in dress code
Bring all your needed materials
Sit in the your assigned seat
Get started on your bell work immediately
No personal grooming in class (Make-up, Hair, etc.)
• If it is in class you will be asked to quietly give the item to Mr.
Mitchell and you may retrieve it at the end of the day.
• Second time and it is out of Mr. Mitchell’s hands and will
placed in the office.
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You are responsible for your own education
Turn in your work completed and on time
Let the teacher know when you will be absent
Ask for your make up work
Ask for assistance
• In order to better learn and approach World History and to
give it a framework for understanding.
• There are five themes in World History that we use to
accomplish this.
• They are SPICE
• Write your title across the top page
• World History Themes – SPICE
• For each Theme
• Left Hand Colum = theme title
• Right Hand Colum =
• Bullitt Point Notes
• Synthesize a one sentence summary of the paragraph explaining the
importance of the theme.
• Students in this course must learn to view history thematically.
The AP World History course is organized around five
overarching themes that serve as unifying threads throughout
the course, helping students to relate what is particular about
each time period or society to a “big picture” of history. The
themes also provide a way to organize comparisons and
analyze change and continuity over time. Consequently,
virtually all study of history in this class will be tied back to
these themes by utilizing a “SPICE” acronym.
• Development and transformation of social structures
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Gender roles and relations
Family and kinship
Racial and ethnic constructions
Social and economic classes
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• In a constructed response, explain why having a social theme
helps us understand world history.
• State-building, expansion, and conflict
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Political structures and forms of governance
Empires
Nations and nationalism
Revolts and revolutions
Regional, trans-regional, and global structures and organizations
• In a constructed response, explain why having a political theme
helps us understand world history.
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Demography and disease
Migration
Patterns of settlement
Technology
• In a constructed response, explain why having a environmental
interaction theme helps us understand world history.
• Development and interaction of cultures
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Religions
Belief systems, philosophies, and ideologies
Science and technology
The arts and architecture
• In a constructed response, explain why having a cultural theme
helps us understand world history.
• Creation, expansion, and interaction of economic systems
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Agricultural and pastoral production
Trade and commerce
Labor systems
Industrialization
Capitalism and socialism
• In a constructed response, explain why having a economic theme
helps us understand world history.
1. Identify and explain each of the five themes of world history.
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2. Explain why it is important to use themes while learning about
world history in a 3 to 5 sentence constructed response.
I will learn the strategies to properly
take notes independently using an AP
World History textbook.
I will analyze the development of the
human experience through the Paleolithic
Era and the Neolithic Revolution.
• Describe the Hominids
• Explain the migration of Homo Erectus and Homo Sapiens.
• Why is their migration impor tant?
• Our basic structure is going to be Cornell Notes however with a
few modifications.
• World History is about the “Big Idea” or “Big Picture” and not
the specific details.
• You are not an effective copy machine, thus you are not expected to copy
the whole chapter into your notes.
• Out of Eastern Africa, bones from 5 million years ago found
• “Lucy” discovered in Ethiopia
• Estimated date of death: 3.5 million years ago
• Animals adapt themselves to environment
• Hominids adapt environment to themselves
• Use of tools
• Language
• Complex cooperative social structures
• “the southern ape”
• Had opposable thumbs and fashioned tools
• Choppers, scrappers…food preparation tools
• “Upright-walking” man
• Smarter than Australopithecus
• Fashioned mores sophisticated tools
• Cleavers, hard axes
• Development of the understanding of tending fire
• Cook food
• Defense against predators
• Source of artificial heat
• Increased intelligence and language skills
• Communicate complex ideas like coordinated hunts
• Effective tools, fire, intelligence, and communication allowed
Homo Erectus to migrate.
• Homo Erectus migrated to areas in Europe, Asia, and Africa
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• Adaption to the Environment
• By 13,000 BCE Homo sapiens in every inhabitable part of the world
• Archaeological finds:
• Sophisticated tools
• Choppers, scrapers, axes, knives, bows, arrows
• Cave and hutlike dwellings
• Use of fire, animal skins for warmth.
• Hunted several mammal species to extinction
• Climactic change may have accelerated process
• Their growth led to the extinction of the Mammoth
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• “Consciously thinking humans”
• Larger brains and remarkable intelligence gave Homo Sapiens a survival
advantage because they understood the world around them and
exploited resources and communicated complex tasks.
• Migration of Homo Sapiens
• Their intelligence provided them with more mobility because they could
adapt the environment and move into colder regions that the Homo
Erectus could not.
• Spread to every part of the world including New Guinea, Austrailia and
the Western Hemisphere.
• Read the Paleolithic Society section and create notes for each
subsection as well.
• Remember:
• Read looking for the “big picture” concepts
• 1st Paragraph is the “Thesis” of the Section/Subsection,
• Read it on 14 and write the thesis across the top under you
section heading.
• Hunting and gathering peoples
• Include information here proving your thesis
• Social Order and Hunting
• Paleolithic Culture
• Neanderthal Peoples – Burial
• Cro-Magnon Peoples
• Venus Figurines
• Cave Paintings
• Thesis: “Old Stone Age” Humans in this era forged for food as
hunters and gatherers. (Developed a richer culture)
• Economy and Society of Hunting and Gathering Peoples
• Hunting and gathering required movement which disallowed for
accumulated wealth with social classes.
• More Equality between sexes because women provided more caloric food
consumption be gathering than men did by hunting.
• Hunting big game successful because of coordinated attacks and new
bows and spears.
• Abondent areas began to see more perminant settlements arrive.
• Paleolithic Culture
• Neanderthal Peoples had more ritual burials which show a development
of culture in the human experience.
• Cro-Magnon Peoples
• Homo Sapiens Sapiens
• More developed the Neanderthals
• New weapons- Spear Throwers, Bows, Harpoons
• Venus Figures- Importance of fertility demonstrates value in life and
growing the community
• Cave paintings- Demonstrate culture (Pride in the hunt, Religious
connection to the hunt) and intellectual power of the human species
• At the end of your notes on each chapter you need to write a 5
sentence summary/reflection for each of the SPICE themes
summarizing the key “big ideas” from the chapter concerning
each theme.
• You need to create 5 questions
• Explain the shift to agriculture in the Neolithic Era in 7 sentences,
include the importance.