Download Advanced Placement World History 2007-2008

Advanced Placement World History 2010
Rebecca Kuhn, Bugil Academy
Course Description:
AP® World History is a year-long class designed to explore history from around
8,000 BCE to the present. Through this class students will develop the ability to think
about history thematically by drawing comparisons and highlighting distinctions between
societies, by examining primary historical documents, and understanding how different
societies change over time. Specifically, our journey though history will be based on
developing the following seven habits of mind and skills:
1. constructing and evaluating arguments and using evidence to make plausible
arguments;
2. understanding and interpreting information from documents and other primary
data through identifying point of view, context, bias;
3. assessing issues of change and continuity over time, including the capacity to
deal with change as a process and with questions of causation;
4. understanding diverse interpretations of historical events through analysis of
the content, point of view and frames of reference in historical documents and
scholarship;
5. seeing and connecting local and global patterns and processes over time and
space; Moving though levels of generalization from the global to the
particular;
6. comparing elements within and among societies, including comparing
societies’ reactions to global processes;
7. generating an awareness of human commonalities and differences while
assessing the historical context surrounding claims of universal standards and
cultural diversity.
Additionally, our exploration of World History will be based on the six AP World
History themes:
1. The relationship of change and continuity across the different time periods;
2. The impact of interaction among and within major societies;
3. The impact of technology, economics, and demography on people and their
environment;
4. The social and gender structures in different societies;
5. The cultural, religious, and intellectual developments in different societies;
6. Different changes in the functions and structures of states and in attitude
toward states and political identities, including the emergence of nation-states.
Primary Text:
Spodek, Howard. 2006. The World’s History. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.
Readings and Exercises will be taken from the following:
Andrea, Alfred J. and James H. Overfield. The Human Record: Sources of Global
History. 5th ed. Vols 1& 2. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2005.
Cowley, Robert. What If? Eminent Historians Imagine What Might Have Been.
Reilly, Kevin. Worlds of History: A Comparative Reader Volume 1: To 1550. (WoH)
Released AP Exams, Essay Questions, Rubrics, and Student Samples
Assignments/Assessments: Grades in this class will be awarded based on student
performance on the following assignments:
 Reading quizzes (multiple choice and short answer)
 Comparison/Contrast and Change-Over-Time Take home and in-class essays (In
class and take home)
 Primary Source Document exercises – in-class readings and discussions and
practice essays
 Class discussions over contemporary world historical scholarship
 Geography and annotated map exercises
 Study Guides for each time period
 Unit and Trimester exams (practice AP format with multiple choice questions as
well as comparison, change over time, and original document questions)
 Class participation
Course Schedule:
End of Unit 1: 8,000 BCE to 600 CE (February 1-March 19)
 What is a Civilization?
o Reading schedule:
 Spodek Chapter 2
o Material/Ideas covered:
 Interaction of geography and climate with the development of
human society.
 Population Changes resulting from human and environmental
factors.
 Characteristics and consequences of agricultural, pastoral, and
foraging technologies on environment and people.
 Emergence of agriculture and other technological changes.
 The nature of villages.
 Features of early civilizations: Mesopotamia, Egypt, Indus,
Shang, Mesoamerican, Andean
 Controversy over using the term “civilization.”
o Assignments/Assessments
 Multiple choice and short answer reading quizzes
 Introduce how to read an original document
 Teach the process for writing comparison essays
 Write first comparison essay on civilizations based on notes
taken from chapters 1&2.
 Movement of People and Ideas
o Reading schedule:
 Stearns Chapter 3-5; 9-11
 “Lessons for Women” by Ban Zhao and excerpt from “The
Analects” by Confucius (in WoH)
 Excerpt from “The Ramayana” by R.K. Narayan and Excerpt
from Svetasvatara Upanishad (in WoH)
 “Gotama’s Discovery” (in WoH)
 Excerpt from The Bible: History, Laws, and Psalms (in WoH)
 Excerpt from The Bible: Jesus According to Matthew (in WoH)
o Material/Ideas covered:
 Movements of people (Bantus, Huns, Germans, Polynesians)
 Interregional networks: trade and the spread of religion
 World Religions Overview (focus on social hierarchy, role of
women)
 Hinduism
 Buddhism
 Judaism
 Christianity
 Confucianism and Daoism
 Collapse of Empires (Compare Han China, Gupta, to loss of
western portion of Roman empire)
 Movements of People
o Assignments/Assessments
 Reading quizzes
 Chart comparing/contrasting world religions
 In-class essays (Original Document and Comparison)
 Geography Assignment – map the birthplace and development
of major religions
 Study Guide
 Unit Exam
Unit 2: 600 CE-1450 CE (February 22-March14)
 The Birth and Spread of Islam
o Reading Schedule:
 Spodek Chapter 11
 Excerpts from the Koran
 “The Islamization of the Silk Road” by Foltz
o Material/Ideas Covered:
 The rise and role of Dar al-Islam in Eurasia and Africa
 Islamic Political Structures
 Arts, Sciences, and Technologies
 Interregional networks and contacts: shifts in interregional
trade, technology, and cultural exchange
 Trans-Saharan Trade
 Indian Ocean Trade
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 Silk Routes
 Bridging World History 9 & 10: Connections Across land and
Connections Across Water
 Missionary Outreach between major religions
 Contacts between major religions
 Islam and Buddhism
 Christianity and Islam
o Assignments/Assessments:
 Reading Quizzes
 Add Islam to world religion comparison chart
 Map Analysis exercise examining spread of Islam
 DBQ on Silk Road Trade Networks
Chinese Renaissance
o Reading Schedule
 Spodek Chapters 7 and 12
 “Did China’s Worldview Cause the Abrupt End of Its Voyages
of Exploration?” (Taking Sides)
o Material/Ideas Covered
 Importance of the Tang and Song economic revolutions and the
initiatives of the early Ming dynasty
 Chinese influence on surrounding areas and its limits
 Arts, sciences and technologies
o Assignments/Assessments
 Multiple Choice Reading quiz
 Mapping East Asia Exercise
Changes in Europe
o Reading Schedule:
 Spodek Chapter 13
o Material/Ideas covered
 Impact of Mongol Empires
 Bridging World History 8: Early Economies (Europe, Japan,
China, Inka)
 Restructuring the European economic, social and political
institutions
 Compare Japanese and European feudalism (Comparison
Essay)
 Compare developments in political and social institutions in
eastern and western Europe
 Division of Christendom into eastern and western Christian
cultures
o Assignments/Assessments
 Reading Quizzes
The Amerindian World and the rise of the West and The Changing of
World power
o Reading Schedule
 Spodek Chapter 12
o Material/Ideas covered
 Social, cultural, economic, and political patterns in The
Amerindian World: Maya, Aztec, Inca
 Causes and effects of nomadic migrations on Afro-Eurasia
 Comparison to Bantu migration
 Consequences of plague in the fourteenth century
 Growth and role of cities
 Usefulness of “Nation-State” as unit of political analysis
o Assignments/Assessments
 Multiple Choice reading quizzes
 Chart comparing/contrasting the Aztec and Incan empires
 Study Guide
 Unit Exam
Unit 3: 1450 CE -1750 CE (March 24-June 16)
 Europe and the “New World”
o Reading Schedule
 Spodek Chapter 14
 “Southernization” by Linda Schaffer
o Material/Ideas Covered
 Questions of Periodization
 Western Expansion/Global Trade
 Impact of technology: guns, changes in shipbuilding and
navigational devices
 The European Renaissance
 Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment
 The Protestant Reformation
 Changes and continuities in Confucianism
o Assignments/Assessments
 Short answer questions to “Southernization” article
 Comparison chart between Protestantism and Catholicism
 Opening the Atlantic and Slave Trade
o Reading Schedule
 Spodek Chapter 15
 The Battle for Tenochtitlan: An Aztec Perspective: “General
History of the Things of New Spain” by Bernardino de
Sahagun in (THR v. 1)
 The Economics of the West African Slave Trade: “A Voyage
to New Calabar River in the Year 1699” by James Barbot in
(THR v. 2)
o Material/Ideas Covered
 Compare free and coercive systems
 Bridging World History 14: Land and Labor Relationships
 African empires: Kongo, Benin, Oyo, and Songhay
 Demographic and environmental changes: diseases, animals,
new crops, and comparative population trends
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Comparative global causes and impacts of cultural change (eg.
African contributions to cultures in the Americas)
 Bridging World History 15: Early Global Commodities (Silver)
 Silver Flow DBQ
o Assignments/Assessments
 Multiple Choice/Short Answer Reading Quiz
 Mapping the Slave Trade Exercises
Muslim and Asian Empires
o Reading Schedule – January 14-25
 Spodek Chapter 15
 Primary source Tokugawa Japan (THR v. 2)
 Primary source about women and Islamic Law in Ottoman
Empire (THR v. 2)
o Material/Ideas Covered
 Major Empires and other Political Units and Social Systems
 Comparison of Russian and the West with Mughal India,
Safavid, Ottoman Empire, and Tokugawa Japan empires and
the West
 Gender and Empire (women in households and politics)
o Assignments/Assessments
 Multiple Choice Reading Quizzes
 Comparison Chart and/or essay on empires and the treatment
of coercive labor
 Study Guide
 Unit Exam
Unit 4: 1750 CE -1914 CE (August 23-October 8)
 Revolution and Industrialization
o Readings Schedule:
 Spodek Chapter 16, 17
 Excerpts from King Leopold’s Ghost by Adam Hochshield
 “Testimony before Parliament Committees on Working
Conditions in England” (THR v. 2)
 “The Communist Manifesto” by Karl Marx (THR v. 2)
o Material/Ideas Covered
 Revolutions
 United States
 France
 China
 Bridging World History 17: Ideas Shape the World
 Industrial Revolution – differential timing in different societies,
mutual relation of industrial and scientific developments,
commonalities
 Compare the causes and early phases of the Industrial
Revolution in western Europe and Japan
 New birthrate patterns, food supply, Malthus’ ideas
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Consumerism
Global technological and transportation challenges
Debates over the utility of modernization theory as interpretive
framework for interpreting historical events
 Compare role and conditions of women of the upper/middle
class with peasantry/working class women in western Europe
 The nation-state and political independence vs. economic
independence (or lack thereof)
o Assignments/Assessments
 Mapping Exercise: Identifying AP geographical regions
 TRIMESTER EXAM: Feb. 12-15 (MC, Essay Questions)
Imperialism
o Readings Schedule:
 Spodek Chapter 18
 A Defense of French Imperialism: “Jules Ferry, Speech before
the French National Assembly” (THR v. 2)
 Images of Imperialism in Great Britain: “Advertisements and
Illustrations from British Books and Periodicals.” (THR v. 2)
o Material/Ideas Covered
 Latin American Revolution
 Haitian Revolution
 Bridging World History 20: Imperial Designs (Brazil, South
Africa, East Asia)
 Overlaps between nations and empires
 Rise of democracy and its limitations
 Rise of Western dominance (economic, political, social,
cultural, and artistic)
 Patterns of Western expansion
 Compare Western intervention in Latin America and in Africa
 Imperialism and Colonialism
 Causes and effects of serf emancipation theory – fit with
broader comparisons of labor systems
o Assignments/Assessments
 Multiple Choice and Short Answer Reading Quizzes
 Essay comparing Haitian and French revolutions
Encounters: West and East
o Readings Schedule:
 Spodek Chapter 18
 Images of the West in Late Tokugawa and Meiji Japan: Prints
and Drawings from 1853-1887 (in Andrea and Overfield)
 The Beginnings of Arab Nationalism: Announcement to the
Arabs, Sons of Qahtan (in Andrea and Overfield)
 India Under British Domination: A Plea for Western Schools
“Rammohum Roy, Letter to Lord Amherst.” And A Call to
Expel the British “The Azamgarh Proclamation”
o Material/Ideas Covered
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Crisis in Ottoman, Arab, and Chinese Heartlands
Compare reaction to foreign dominance in Ottoman Empire,
China, India and Japan
 Compare nationalisms in China and Japan, Cuba and
Philippines, Egypt and Nigeria
 African and Asian influences on European art
 Cultural policies of Meiji Japan
o Assignments/Assessments
 Multiple Choice Reading Quiz
 Change over time chart for AP geographical regions
 Study Guide
 Unit Exam
Unit 5: 1914 CE-present (October 11-November 19)
 World War I and Its Aftermath
o Reading Schedule
 Spodek Chapter 19
 Primary sources on the Russian Revolution
o Material/Ideas Covered
 Globalization of diplomacy and conflict
 Compare symbols of nationalism: Japan, India, Germany, and
England
 Bridging World History 22: Global War and Peace
 Totalitarianism and Fascism
o Assignments/Assessments
 The Great Depression and World War II
o Reading Schedule
 Spodek Chapter 20
 “Was the Treaty of Versailles Responsible for World War II?”
 Primary Sources on WWII and technology
o Material/Ideas Covered
 Reduction of European influence
 League of Nations, United Nations, European Union, nonaligned nations
 Holocaust, Genocide
 Political, economic, and social causes of the Great Depression.
 Development of consumer culture
 Interactions between elite and popular culture and art
 Compare the effects of the World Wars on areas outside of
Europe
o Assignments/Assessments
 Multiple Choice and Short Answer Reading Quizzes
 The Cold War
o Reading Schedule
 Spodek Chapter 21
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Primary sources on Communism (USSR and China) after
WWII
 Analyze primary sources on decolonization and South Asia,
Southeast Asia and Africa
o Material/Ideas Covered
 Rise and fall of USSR
 Political, economic, and social causes and effects of
decolonization
 Analyze the difference between “the West” and “the East” in
the context of cold war ideology
 Compare different types of independence struggles
 Bridging World History 23: People Shape the World
 Pick 2 revolutions (Russian, Chinese, Cuban and Iranian) and
compare their effects on the roles of women
o Assignments/Assessments
 Multiple Choice and Short Answer Quizzes
 Colonization mapping exercise
The Non-Western World and Globalization
o Reading Schedule
 Spodek Chapter 22-24
o Material/Ideas Covered
 Development of Pacific Rim and Multinational corporations
 Globalization of science, technology and culture
 Developments in global cultures and regional reactions
 Migrations: explosive population growth, new forms of
urbanization, deforestation and environmental movements
 Patterns of resistance to technology
 Rise of Feminism
 Rise of Fundamentalism
 Compare legacies of colonialism and patterns of economic
development in two of the three areas (Africa, Asia, and Latin
America)
 Bridging World History 21: Colonial Identities
 Bridging World History 25: Global Popular Culture
 Compare the impacts of Western consumer society on two
civilizations outside of Europe
 Compare high-tech warfare with guerrilla warfare
 Assess different proposals (or models) for economic growth I
the developing world and the social and political consequences
o Assignments/Assessments
 Complete previously released WHAP Exam as homework
assignment; review the results in class
 Study Guide
 Unit Exam