Download AP World History Summer Assignment 2016

AP World History Summer Assignment 2016
Welcome to pre-AP World History!
If you have any questions regarding the summer assignment, please reach out to me via email at
[email protected]. I may not answer right away, but if you plan ahead of time, I will get to
your question in time for you to adequately complete the assignment.
Expectations for Summer Assignment
This summer assignment is designed to allow you to become more familiar with the content that
we will be studying throughout the first unit/term period. It will allow our class to dive right into
the subject matter within the first week of school. For some of you this may be the first AP
course taken in high school, so some of the assignments are to get you more familiar with the AP
course standards and expectations. All assignments should be complete by the first day of school
and must be typed.
I will not grade every single part, but completion of all parts will allow you to be more prepared
for the content of the course. Within the first week of school, you will have a quiz on the content
from the videos and PIRATES charts. Additionally, we will spend some time becoming more
familiar with the standards, expectations, and advice for you to be successful in this course. I will
read and provide feedback on the Continuity and Change over Time Essay component of the
summer assignment.
Part 1: Writing Rubrics
Please visit the following College Board site to familiarize yourself with the THREE different
rubrics used to evaluate the THREE different styles of writing required for an AP College Board
course.
http://apcentral.collegeboard.com/apc/public/repository/ap10_world_history_scoring_guideline
s.pdf
Task: For each rubric, create a “Reminders List” of the most important elements of each writing
style. Your list should be in your own words and should reflect the key elements of each writing
style according to your understanding of the rubric. Some of your responses may vary and that
just means that you may be interpreting the rubric in a different way. Each list should have
around 3-5 important reminders.
Part 2: Crash Course World History
Watch the following videos and take notes. Your notes should reflect important content related
to the topic and address any of the questions for each video.
Agricultural Revolution
https://youtu.be/Yocja_N5s1I
Questions:
1. What do most early civilizations have in common?
2. Where did agriculture emerge? Which food crops are associated with which areas?
(Africa, China, Americas)
3. What other lifestyles emerged besides being a hunter-gather or farmer(agriculturalist)?
4. Evaluate John Green’s thesis that “the greatest evolutionary advantage an animal species
can have is being useful to humans.” Agree/disagree, WHY?
5. What do historians say are drawbacks to complex civilizations and agriculture?
Indus Valley Civilization
https://youtu.be/n7ndRwqJYDM
Questions:
1. HOW IS THE CONCEPT OF “CIVILIZATION” A USEFUL CONSTRUCT? WHEN IS IT NOT A USEFUL
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
CONSTRUCT?
HOW DOES JOHN GREEN DEFINE WHAT CONSTITUTES A CIVILIZATION? HOW DOES THIS
COMPARE TO OTHER DEFINITIONS OF CIVILIZATION YOU HAVE LEARNED?
WHERE DID THE EARLIEST CIVILIZATIONS EMERGE? WHY THERE?
WHY WAS THE INDUS VALLEY A PRIME LOCATION? HOW DID THE ENVIRONMENT IMPACT THE
PEOPLE WHO LIVED THERE?
WHAT EVIDENCE EXISTS OF LONG-DISTANCE TRADE AND WITH WHOM?
WHAT APPEARS TO BE UNIQUE ABOUT THE IVC, BASED ON YOUR KNOWLEDGE OF OTHER
CIVILIZATIONS?
Ancient Mesopotamia
https://youtu.be/sohXPx_XZ6Y
1. JOHN GREEN BEGINS BY DISCUSSING ONE OF THE MOST OBVIOUS CONSEQUENCES OF
AGRICULTURE...WHAT IS IT AND WHAT ARE THE MOST IMMEDIATE CONSEQUENCES FOR THOSE
SOCIETIES?
2. HOW DOES MESOPOTAMIA COMPARE WITH THE INDUS RIVER VALLEY (IRV)? IDENTIFY BOTH
SIMILARITIES AND DIFFERENCES. THINK OF WHY A SPECIFIC SIMILARITY AND A SPECIFIC
DIFFERENCE MIGHT EXIST. (THIS IS ANALYSIS; ONE OF THE MORE CHALLENGING SKILLS YOU WILL
NEED TO DEVELOP).
3. CUNIEFORM: WHAT THREE POINTS DOES JOHN GREEN MAKE ABOUT THE ADVENT OF WRITING?
a) _________________________________________________
b) _________________________________________________
c) _________________________________________________
4. WHAT WAS HAMMURABI’S MOST SIGNIFICANT CONTRIBUTION?
5. WHAT ARE THE CHALLENGES OF EMPIRE WHAT IS THE USUAL RESULT? OR TO PUT IT IN MATH
TERMS: ______________ + ________________ = ______________________
Ancient Egypt
https://youtu.be/Z3Wvw6BivVI
1. WHAT POINT IS JOHN GREEN MAKING ABOUT THE DIFFERENT “LENSES” WE USE WHEN WE
STUDY HISTORY?
2. HOW DID THE NILE RIVER SHAPE THE WORLDVIEW OF THE EGYPTIANS? HOW DID THIS COMPARE
TO THE MESOPOTAMIAN WORLDVIEW?
3. HOW WAS EGYPTIAN CIVILIZATION DIFFERENT FROM MOST OTHER RIVER VALLEY CIVILIZATIONS?
WHY DO YOU THINK THIS WAS?
4. WHAT DOES THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE PYRAMIDS REPRESENT? (NOT “WHAT WAS THE
PURPOSE OF THE PYRAMIDS?”)
5. WHAT WAS THE MOTIVATION FOR BUILDING THE PYRAMIDS? (NOT “WHAT WAS THE PURPOSE
OF THE PYRAMIDS?”)
6. WHAT PROTECTED EGYPT FROM OUTSIDE PEOPLES? HOW WERE THE EGYPTIANS EVENTUALLY
CONQUERED BY SEMITIC PEOPLES OF THE MIDDLE EAST?
Bronze Age
https://youtu.be/ErOitC7OyHk
1. WHAT DO TEXTBOOKS NORMALLY DO TO THE RIVER VALLEY CIVILIZATIONS?
2. WHAT DO EGYPT, MESOPOTAMIA, ANATOLIA, ETC. HAVE IN COMMON?
a. TRADE: What did underwater archaeologists find on the shipwreck?
b. WAR: What was one of the main drivers of economic growth?
c. FAMILY: How did these civilizations share familial relationships?
3. WHAT ARE WE REALLY TALKING ABOUT WHEN WE USE THE WORD ‘CIVILIZATION’?
4. WHAT HAPPENED AROUND 1200 BCE TO MYCENAEANS, MINOANS, HITTITES, AND (PARTIALLY)
EGYPT?
a. WHAT CAUSED THIS?
b. WHAT IS THE THEORY OF ARCHAEOSEISMOLOGISTS?
5. HOW DOES INTERDEPENDENCE IN THE BRONZE AGE HELP LEAD TO ITS DOWNFALL? STEP THREE:
THE BIRTH OF THE WRITTEN WORD
Part 3: P.I.R.A.T.E.S. Charts
Throughout this course you will be asked to break down the cultures and civilizations to a basic
level that will allow you to recognize the MOST important characteristics and easily compare one
civilization with another. A PIRATES chart will be used throughout the course to analyze a
civilization/culture in seven components. We will also have comparison charts that will be used
to show similarities and differences between multiple civilizations/cultures.
For this exercise, use the Crash Course videos and online resources to analyze the
civilization/culture. Complete the PIRATES chart for each civilization listed. Include specific and
general information (3- 5 bullet statements per topic/topic=political, intellectual, etc).
Blank Template for PIRATES chart
Complete a PIRATES chart for each of the following civilizations
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
Mesopotamia
Indus River Valley
Ancient Egypt
Huang He River Valley (Shang and Zhou Dynasties)
Mesoamerica and South America (Olmecs and Chavin)
Part 4: Vocabulary
Based on your viewing of the videos and the completion of the PIRATES chart. Create a list of
key terms for the topics covered.
Part 5: Continuity and Change over Time Essay
One of the essays styles that presents the most challenge for students on the AP exam is the
Continuity and Change over time essay(CCOT). The purpose of the CCOT essay is to examine
how much something changes and stays the same over a specified time period. For example, we
could look at how world trade patterns changed from 1450 to 1750, or how the role of women
changed in the Middle East from 1900 to present. This essay forces us to examine the beginning
situation, what caused it to change, and its ending condition. However, we must also consider
what stayed the same.
For our first experience with a CCOT essay, you will complete an OUTLINE about yourself. You
should pick an area to specialize in: education, friends, responsibility, religious life, family,
athletics, music, or another topic of your choosing. More advanced essays will look at 3-4
different specialty areas(1 outline chart for each) and will be able to tie them all together to give
a more thorough analysis of you.
This chart should be used throughout the year when planning for a CCOT essay. For more
advanced essays, you should have a chart for each category or area of specialization.
Rationale: By completing this essay OUTLINE, I will have a better understanding of your writing
ability and thought process and you will have a chance to practice one of the three essay
structures we will focus on.
Characteristics at
beginning of time
period:
Changes/Turning Points or Developments (sudden or gradual)
& Reasons for Change:
Characteristics at
end of time period:
Change 1:
Change 2:
Change 3:
Reasons for Changes:
Continuities & Reasons for Continuity:
Continuity 1:
Continuity 2:
Continuity 3:
Reasons for Continuity:
Part 6: Maps
Memorize these countries and their locations in their respective world regions in bold. Feel free to
label these on a blank world map if it helps your understanding of AP World Regions.
North Africa: Egypt, Libya, Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco
West Africa: Ghana, Nigeria, Senegal, Togo, Benin
East Africa: Kenya, Tanzania, Somalia, Ethiopia, Mozambique
Equatorial Africa: Congo, Rwanda, Sudan
Southern Africa: Angola, Republic of South Africa, Zimbabwe
Middle East: Turkey, Israel, Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Iraq
East Asia: China, Japan, Korea
South Asia: India, Pakistan, Afghanistan
Southeast Asia: Thailand, Viet Nam, Laos, Cambodia, Indonesia, Philippines
Latin America: Mexico, Honduras, Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Peru, Cuba
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