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Advanced Placement World History
Summer Assignment 2016-17
In order to develop a good taste of what you will be dealing with this next year in AP World History, you will
have a comprehensive summer assignment that will cover the major introductory ideas of the first unit of the course,
Technological & Environmental Transformations to 600 B.C.E. Plus, we have about 10,000 years of history to cover in
about 32 weeks, so we need to cover some ground over the summer so we can hit the ground running on the first day of
school. Please take this assignment seriously, for you will be graded as such. Please note that this is not a completion
assignment; your work will be graded based on quality and you will not simply be given credit for getting it done. We
assume that incoming sophomores who sign up for AP World History have a well-developed work ethic and that
assumption will show up in the grades.
WORK SUBMISSION:
It is highly suggested that you do this assignment early so you can get it out of the way and not have to do it last minute.
“Last minute” would need to translate into “last week” to be effective, and even that might push it! Due to the nature of
the assignment, it would be very hard to try to “bust it out” in a day or two right before the due date. The following work
will be due on the first day of school.
I. TEXT & SUPPLEMENTAL READING GUIDES:
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YOU MUST EMAIL MR.GEANCONTERI OR MRS.COURTNEY BEFORE FRIDAY JULY 1ST IN
ORDER TO GET ACCESS TO THE READING. THE READING IS NECESSARY TO COMPLETE
THE ASSIGNMENT. Mr.Geanconteri can be reached at [email protected], Mrs.
Courtney can be reached at [email protected] . We will both be happy to respond quickly
over the summer, granting you access to the reading.
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SUMMER READING GUIDES SHOULD BE DONE IN HANDWRITING, NOT ON COMPUTERS –
You may also use loose-leaf paper or plain white paper with no lines. Pen or pencil is fine. Additionally,
if you like to color code your work feel free to do so – highlighting is welcome. It is expected it to be
clear that you answered the completed the guides thoroughly, if you have a system of note-taking that
works for you, I don’t mind if you give it a try. Thorough, however, will be the standard expectation!
You need to answer all parts of the questions in detail.
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A big key to success in AP World History is good reading comprehension skills. There’s something
about writing work out by hand and putting work into your own words that helps the brain process the
information. As the level of reading difficulty and the quantity of work is much higher in AP than in
academic or honors social studies classes, it will be much harder for the vast majority of students to
simply peruse material and “get it.”
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Go out of your way to put the answers to questions into your own words. If you simply rewrite the text,
you’ll comprehend very little of it. Make sure you develop comprehensive answers that don’t merely
“search and destroy,” but show your understanding of the material.
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This is independent work. Repeat. This is independent work. Your work should not be eerily similar to
any of your buddies’ work, nor should it be similar to work from former students.
In Closing
Now don’t take this work lightly. It is excellent preparation for the course and gets you accustomed to the type of work
that we’ll be doing all year. And a final note- this year will be a learning experience. We consider this year not only a
course spent learning about the history of humanity, but a course spent learning about yourself and preparing you for
college, the workplace, and beyond. Although the summer work is definitely challenging, hopefully you will find it
interesting. We will work very hard next year to try to make AP World History your favorite class; in return, you’ll need
to be willing to work hard and become dedicated to pushing yourself. So, with that said, get cracking on your summer
work!
Best Wishes and Good Luck,
Mr. Geanconteri
Mrs. Courtney
Name :
Due Date:
Chapter 1:
First Peoples, First Farmers: Most of History in a Single Chapter, to 4000 B.C.E.
1. What arguments does this chapter makeChapter
for paying
serious
attention to human history before the coming
12 Study
Guide
of “civilization?”
Reunification & Renaissance in Chinese Civilization: Era of Tang & Song Dynasty
I. OUT OF AFRICA TO THE ENDS OF THE EARTH: FIRST MIGRATIONS P. 12
2. What are some examples of technological innovation or development of culture by the early humans in
Africa?
3. What was the sequence of human migration across the planet?
A. INTO EURASIA
4. List some examples of humans adapting to their new environment in Eurasia.
B. INTO AUSTRALIA
5. Humans used what technology for the first time in order to facilitate their migration into Australia?
C. INTO THE AMERICAS
6. What is the name of the first culture that emerged in the Americas? Describe their lifestyle.
7. What happened to Clovis culture?
D. INTO THE PACIFIC
8. How and when did the Austronesian (Pacific) migrations occur?
9. How did Austronesian migrations differ from other early patterns of human movement?
II. THE WAYS WE WERE P. 20
A. THE FIRST HUMAN SOCIETIES
10. Descibe the size of most Paleolithic societies.
11. How did Paleolithic societies typically aquire food?
12. Define “Nomadic”
13. Why were Paleolithic societies unable to stockpile food and other resources?
14. Define “egalitarian”
15. In what ways did a gathering and hunting economy shape other aspects of Paleolithic societies?
B. ECONOMY AND THE ENVIRONMENT
16. What are some positives and negatives to life in Paleolithic socities?
a. Positives:
b. Negatives:
17. List at least 2 ways Paleolithic peoples altered their environments.
C. THE REALM OF THE SPIRIT
18. What evidence exists that prove Paloelithc peoples had a religious or spiritual realm as a part of their
culture?
D. SETTLING DOWN: THE GREAT TRANSITION
19. Why did some Paleolithic peoples abandon earlier, more nomadic ways and begin to live a more settled
life?
20. Define “ sedentary”
21. Why did the ability to store and acumulate goods cause egalitarianism to end?
22. Your text argues that sedentary life led to domestication of animals. Define “domestication” and list
the first animal ever domesticated. (hint: see page 27 for definition)
23. How did becoming sedentary change the way humans altered their enviornment? (Hint: the Gobekli
Tepe is an example of this)
III. BREAKTHROUGH TO AGRICULTURE P. 26
24. Define “Neolithic Revolution”, or “Agricultural Revolution.”
25. How did the Neolithic Revolution change the relationship between humans and their environment?
(Give examples of new way humans are altering their environment.)
26. How did the Neolithic Revolution affect the population of the globe?
A. COMMON PATTERNS
27. What accounts for the emergence of agriculture after countless millennnia of human life without it?
28. Historians think whom was responsible for discovering the technique of farming? Explain why this
argument is logical.
29. What contributed to the growing need for agriculture (farming) around the globe?
B. VARIATIONS
30. Define “horticulture”
31. What was the first place in the world to experience the “Agricultural Revolution?”
32. Explain the difference in the process of domestication in the Fertile Crescent and Africa.
33. How did domestication in the Americas differ from that in Africa and Eurasia? (2 ways- think animals
and crops)
34. Why could agricultural practices spread more rapidly in North Africa and Eurasia than in the Americas?
IV. THE GLOBALIZATION OF AGRICULTURE P. 34
35. In what 2 ways did agriculture spread?
A. TRIUMPH AND RESISTANCE
36. Provide at least 2 pieces of evidence for the following statement: “The spread of languages accompanied
the spread of agriculture.”
37. Where and why was agriculture sometimes resisted?
B. THE CULTURE OF AGRICULTURE
38. What are some positive and negative changes brought about by the agricultural revolution?
A. Positives:
B. Negatives:
V. SOCIAL VARIATION IN THE AGE OF AGRICULTURE P. 39
A. PASTORALISTS
39. Define “Pastoralist”
B. AGRICULTURAL VILLAGE SOCIETIES
40. How did pastoralists differ from agricultural village societies in terms of what they domesticated?
41. Compare/Contrast the role of women in pastoral societies and agricultural vllage societies.
C. CHIEFDOMS
42. How were chiefdoms politically different than pastoralists and agricultural village based societies?
VI. REFLECTIONS P. 43
43. List some argumnets moden thinkers use to critizise the effects of the Neolithic Revolution and
simultaneously praise Paleolithic societies.
Chapter 2 Learning Guide – The First Civilizations
Main Idea 1 – How did the rise of civilization begin?
1. Agricultural Revolution - Definition:
Significance:
2. Domestication - Definition:
Significance:
3. Intensification - Definition:
Significance: 4. What was the importance of “intensification” in the Neolithic Age?
5. What were the revolutionary transformations brought about by the Neolithic or Agricultural Revolution?
6. Broad spectrum diet – Definition:
Significance:
7. Describe what a “food crisis” is. How can it affect the environment?
8. What accounts for the emergence of agriculture after countless millennia of human life without it? (at
least 4 sentences)
9. 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? (pg 54)
10. Describe the pattern of agricultural development
Middle East
(Mesopotamia)
Africa
The Americas
Main Idea 2 – How and why did agriculture spread?
1. Diffusion – Definition:
Significance:
2. Look at the world map on pages 58 and 59. In at least 2 sentences, explain what you are looking at.
3. Who are the Bantus?
4. Where did the Bantu originate?
5. Where did they (the bantus) move to and how did they get there? Why did they move?
6. What did the Bantu speaking people spread
7. Advantages of going through an
Agricultural Revolution
Disadvantages of going through an
Agricultural Revolution
8. Why did people resist agriculture?
9. Why did different societies emerge?
10. How did farmers and herding people get along? How did they interact with each other?
11. Fill in the chart below.
Pastoral Societies
Where were
they located?
What did they
do?
Agricultural Village
Societies
Chiefdoms
Did they
domesticate
animals?
Were they
successful?
How were they
organized?
Other key
details/facts
12. “Stateless societies” – Definition
Significance:
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
Chapter 3 Learning Guide – The First Civilizations
Main Idea 1 – Early civilization began around a water source and was an effect of the
Agricultural Revolution.
1. cradle of civilization – Definition:
Significance:
2. Briefly describe the early civilizations (Pages 86 – 91)
Egypt
Norte Chico
Indus River
China
Olmec
3. Why did not all chiefdoms turn into a civilization? What makes turns chiefdom into a civilization?
4. How was Norte Chico unique?
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
5. What caused the Indus River Valley to be abandoned?
6. Why were the Chinese dynasties different from other civilizations especially the Indus people?
7. How were the Shang and Zhou Dynasties different from the Xia Dynasty?
8. What is the Mandate of Heaven?
9. Nubia – Definition:
10. What does the author of the book mean when he says: “It is the search for “something else” that has
provoked such great debate among scholars.” (page 91 towards the bottom)
11. What 3 things do ALL of the early civilizations have in common?
12. Describe the city of Uruk.
13. Describe Mojenjo Daro and Harappa.
14. Describe Teotihuacan.
Main Idea 2: Early civilizations had social hierarchies that they used to control people and the
government.
1. In what way was social inequality expressed in the early civilizations? Describe an urban city at this
time. What purpose did cities serve? (at least 4 sentences)
2. Describe the roles of the social hierarchy.
a. Monarchs in China -
b. Commoners in Mesopotamia –
c. Farmers (in all early civilizations) –
3.
Treatment of slaves
Roles of slaves
4. Patriarchy – Definition
Males
Females
Significance:
5. In what ways have historians tried to explain the origins of patriarchy?
6. According to your book, how were women treated during the early civilizations?
7. How were “respectable women” different from non “respectable women”
Main Idea 3: People did not overthrow the government or protest because each civilization was held
together by a King (or any ruler really) who controlled society by using ranked officials.
1. What was the purpose of the state? (4 reasons)
2. Read the excerpt on the bottom of page 99. What happens to the peasant who cannot pay his tax in
grain?
3. Son of Heaven – Definition:
Significance:
4. What did these early cultures use to justify the unequal power?
5. Why was writing important to your status?
6.
Environment and Culture
Cities and States
Interaction and exchange
Egypt
Mesopotamia