Download ADVANCED PLACEMENT WORLD HISTORY

Advanced Placement World History
The goal of AP World History is to introduce students to a college-level History class and to prepare them for
success in the APWH exam in May.
AP World History (APWH) is textbook-driven. Students must read the text thoroughly and are encouraged to
read beyond the assigned readings in the text and other sources.
AP Central’s APWH Course Description is provided and serves as an excellent guide for readings. More
information can be found on the College Board website by following the link below
https://apstudent.collegeboard.org/apcourse/ap-world-history
Summer Assignment
The AP WORLD HISTORY test was redesigned for the 16-17 school year and I will be attending a weeklong
workshop this summer (June 27-July 1) on the redesign.
There will be several assignments that you will need to complete by the first days of school but I do not want
to assign you something now that may not be of value on the new exam. There will be a chapter assigned
from the text book you picked up but that too is information forthcoming. You can get started on your reading
any time you wish and once your choice of book is approved you can start reading that as well. (See attached
info sheet)
General information
Essays are written in and out of class. These are to prepare students for the Free Response Questions (essay
questions) on the APWH exam.
Quizzes are intended to promote and assess learning. Students are to take notes during class discussions, and
they are allowed to use their notes on some quizzes. Students should be prepared to be quizzed over
homework assignments. Open-notes quizzes and closed-notes quizzes are frequent and unannounced.
Tests over units of study include matching, multiple-choice, mapping and short-answer questions.
Grades are based on essays, quizzes and tests and are weighted by the school as a result of the challenging
nature of the course.
Contact information
It is imperative that you can receive information from me. Therefore, I asked for your summer email and your
phone number. Most of the information I send you will be after July 1st and will be assignment/course related.
Please respond out of courtesy that you received my correspondence.
Please feel free to contact me with any concerns. [email protected]
I look forward to teaching this course and working with you scholars.
AP WORLD HISTORY COURSE OUTLINE
Foundations
(4 weeks)
Basic geography
Locations of continents, oceans, seas, rivers and mountain ranges
Location of key political units prior to 1000 BCE
Definitions
Demography
Agricultural, pastoral and foraging societies
Cities and urban societies
The crisis of late Antiquity (200 – 600 BCE)
Movements and migrations
The collapse of empires
The emergence of new empires
Basic features of major world belief systems
Buddhism
Christianity
Confucianism
Daoism
Hellenism
Hinduism
Islam
Judaism
Polytheism
Basic characteristics of social systems developed by 1000 BCE
Caste system
Slave systems
Confucian social structure
Patriarchal systems
Basic economic systems
International connections (700 – 1000 BCE)
Missionary outreach
International trading patterns
Nomadic groups
Bantu migrations
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AP WORLD HISTORY COURSE OUTLINE
1000 – 1450
(6 weeks)
Continuities and breaks within the period
The impact of the Mongols
Interregional networks
Development and shifts in an interregional network of trade, technology,
cultural exchange and communication
Nature of philosophy and knowledge
China’s internal and external expansion
The importance of the Song economic revolution
Chinese influence on Japan and its limits
The Islamic world
The role of Islam as a unifying cultural force in Eurasia and Africa
Islamic impact on the Sudanic kingdoms and East Africa
The Delhi Sultanate
The impact of migrations and religious reform movements in expanding Islamic
society
The impact of Islam on the arts and sciences
Changes in Christianity
Restructuring of European society, including growth of central monarchies in the
west
Role of Arab thought in the 12th century Renaissance in the west
The division of Christendom into Eastern and Western Christian cultures
Non-Islamic Africa
Great Zimbabwe
Demographic and environmental changes
Impact of nomadic migrations on Afro-Eurasia (Mongols, Turks, Arabs)
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AP WORLD HISTORY COURSE OUTLINE
1450 – 1750
(6 weeks)
Continuities and breaks, transitions within the previous period and within this period
Change in global interactions, trade and technology
Knowledge of major empires and other political units and social systems
Aztec
Ottoman
Inca
Ming
Qing (Manchu)
Portugal
Spain
Russia
France
England
Mongol
Tokugawa
Bantu migrations
Mughal
Characteristics of African empires in general
Slave systems and slave trade
Demographic and environmental change
Diseases
Animals
New crops
Comparative population trends
Cultural and intellectual developments
Scientific Revolution
The Enlightenment
Comparative global causes and impacts of cultural change
Neo-Confucianism
Major developments and exchanges in the arts
Diverse interpretations
Debates about timing and Extent of European predominance in world economy
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AP WORLD HISTORY COURSE OUTLINE
1750 – 1914
(5 weeks)
Continuities and breaks, transitions from previous period and within this period
Changes in global commerce, communications and technology
Industrial Revolution
Demographic and environmental changes
Migrations
End of the Atlantic slave trade
New birthrate patterns
Food supply
Changes in social and gender structure
Industrial Revolution
Commercial and demographic developments
Emancipation of serfs/slaves
Tension between work patterns and ideas about gender
Political revolutions and independence movements and new political ideas
Latin American independence movements
Revolutions (United States, France, Haiti, Mexico, China)
Rise of nationalism, nation-states, and movements of political reform
Overlaps between nations and empires
Rise of democracy and its limitations: reform, women, racism
Rise of Western dominance and different cultural and political reactions
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AP WORLD HISTORY COURSE OUTLINE
1914 – Present
(7 weeks)
Continuities and breaks, transitions from previous period and within this period
The World Wars, the Cold War, nuclear weaponry, international organizations and their
impact on the global framework
Globalization of diplomacy and conflict
Global balance of power
Reduction of European influence
The League of Nations
The United Nations
The Non-Aligned Nations
New patterns of nationalism especially outside of the West
The interwar years
Decolonization
Racism
The Holocaust
Genocide
New nationalisms
Breakup of the Soviet Union
Impact of major global economic developments
The Great Depression
Technology
The Pacific Rim
Multinational corporations
New forces of revolution and other sources of political innovations
Social reform and social revolution
Changing gender roles
Family structures
Rise of feminism
Peasant protest
International Marxism
Internationalization of culture and reactions
Developments in global and regional cultures
Interactions between elites and popular culture and art
Global cultural forces and patterns of resistance (consumer culture, religious responses)
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