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AP Wolrd History Syllabus Course Introduction The AP World History course is designed to challenge high school students ready to handle college level material. Through the lense of five themes of history, outlined by the College Board, students will analyze continuity and change throughout world history. Unlike a traditional Wordl History course, less than 30% of the content of this course will focus on Europe, emphasizing the interconnectedness of global history in its entirety, and without geographic concentration. Students will demonstrate their material comprehension and analytical skill with a number of demanding activities designed in preparation for the AP World History exam. Students should expect a heavy reading load, class discussion, frequent written response to document-based questions (DBQ), map analysis, and written and oral comparisons of historical perspectives across cultures using a wide variety of primary source documents, historical maps and other sources. Five Themes of World History 1. Interaction between humans and the environment - Demography and disease - Migration - Paterns of settlement - Technology 2. Development and interaction of cultures - Religions - Belief systems, philosophies, and ideologies - Science and technology - The arts and architecture 3. State-building, expansion, and conflict - Political structures and forms of governance - Empires - Nations and nationalism - Revolts and revolutions - Regional, ttransregional, and blobal structures and organizations 4. Creation, expansion, and interaction of economic systems - Agricultural and pastoral production - Trade and commerce - Labor sytems - Industrialization - Capitalism and socialism 5. Development and transformation of social structures - Gender roles and relations - Family and kinship
- Racial and ethnic constructions - Social and economic classes Primary Textbook Spodek, Howard. The World’s History. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2006. Supplementary Reader Andrea, Alfred J. and James Overfield. The Human Record: Sources of Global History, Volumes I and II. Boston: Houghton Miflen, 2005. Summer Reading Diamond, Jared. Guns, Germs, and Steel. New York: W.W. Norton, 1999. (Questions for analysis of this book will be provided on the class wikispace) Other Support Materials 2002 AP World History Released Exam (College Board) 2003–2006 AP World History Essay Questions, Rubrics and Student Samples (AP Central). Bentley, Jerry H. and Herbert F. Ziegler. Traditions and Encounters: A Global Perspective on the Past. Boston: McGraw Hill, 2006. Bulliet, Richard and Others. The Earth and Its Peoples: A Global History. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2008. Fernando-Armesto, Filipe. The World: A History. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2007. Lockard, Craig. Societies, Networks, and Transitions: A Global History. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2008. Reilly, Kevin. Worlds of History: A Comparative Reader. Boston: Bedfor/St. Martin’s, 2007. Rand McNally Historical Atlas of the World, 2003. Spielberg, Steven, Director and David Franzoni, Writer. Amistad. Dreamworks, 1997. Tigor, Robert and others. Worlds Together Worlds Apart. New York: W.W. Norton,
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Activities and Assessments Quizzes: On readings from each chapter of Spodek Homework: Assigned readings with questions from The Human Record, other primary sources and historical perspectives. Historical map activities illustrating continuity and change over time. Essay-writing practice: Practice in writing change and continuity over time essays, as well as writing comparative essays, will occur periodically throughout the course. Tests: Follow every three chapters in the textbook and after the completion of each unit. DBQ Activities: Students will complete at least one DBQ per unit. In place of a term paper, students will create an AP World History–style DBQ of their own. Final Exam: Students will take a 3-hour, 5-minute AP Released Exam as their final exam, in preparation for the “live” AP World History Exam. Course Outline Unit 1: Settling Down (8000 B.C.E. - 1000 C.E.) - From Village Comunity to City-State (10,000 B.C.E. - 750 B.C.E.) - River Valley Civilizations: The Nile and the Indus (7000 B.C.E. - 750 B.C.E.) - A Polycentric World: City-states in East Asia, The Americas, and West Africa (1700 B.C.E. - 1000 C.E.) Unit 2: Empire and Imperialism (2000 B.C.E. - 1100 C.E.) - Dawn of the Empires: North Africa, West Asia, and the Medditerranean (2000 B.C.E. - 300 C.E.) - Rome and the Barbarians (750 B.C.E. - 500 C.E.) - China (200 B.C.E. - 900 C.E.) - Indian Empires (1500 B.C.E.- 1100 C.E.)
Unit 3: The Rise of World Religions (2500 B.C.E. - 1500 C.E.) - Hinduism and Buddhism (1500 B.C.E. - 1200 C.E.) - Judaism and Christianity (1700 B.C.E. - 1100 C.E.) - Islam (570 C.E. - 1500 C.E.) - Spread of Islam in India, Southeast Asia, and Sub-Saharan Africa (1200 - 1500) Unit 4: The Movement of Goods and Peoples - Establishing World Trade Routes in the Americas, Asia, and Sub-Saharan Africa (1000 - 1500) - European Visions (1100 - 1776) - The Unification of World Trade (1500 - 1776) - Migration (1300 - 1750) Unit 5: Social Change (1640 - 1914) - Political Revolutions in Europe and the Americas (1649 - 1830) - The Industrial Revolution (1700 - 1914) - Nationalism, Imperialism, and Resistance in Africa and Elsewhere (1650 - 1914) Unit 6: Exploding Technologies (1914 - 1941) -Methods of Mass Production and Destruction (1914 - 1937) - World War II and the Cold War (1937 - 1949) - Cold War and New Nations in Africa and Latin America (I1945 - 1989) - China and India (1914 - 1991) Unit 7: Evolving Identities - New Public Identities (1979 - present) - Regional Identities and the Twenty-First Century: Europe, Africa,Latin America, China and India, Isreal and Palestine
