2012 A.P. WORLD HISTORY SUMMER ASSIGNMENT ... Diamond and A History
of the World in Six Glasses by Tom Standage.1 Additional chapters will be ...
2012 A.P. WORLD HISTORY SUMMER ASSIGNMENT Registered students are required to read selected chapters of two books: Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond and A History of the World in Six Glasses by Tom Standage.1 Additional chapters will be assigned from both books during school year as we progress through the course. In addition, for students interested in a commercial review guide, A.P. World History Crash Course by Jay Harmon is recommended. In reading the assigned chapters of the required reading, students should take hand-written notes and are advised to consider the following questions: Guns, Germs and Steel “Prologue” (pages 13-15) What is Yali’s question? “Farmer Power” (Chapter 4) How did the availability of domestic plants and animals explain why empire, literacy, and steel weapons developed earliest in Eurasia? “To Farm or Not to Farm” (Chapter 6) What factors contributed to hunter-gatherers becoming farmers? “Spacious Skies and Tilted Axes” (Chapter 10) How did axis orientations of continents affect the success or non-success of human beings in various areas of the world? “Lethal Gift of Livestock” (Chapter 11) How does the role of germs figure in answering Yali's question? “From Egalitarianism to Kleptocracy” (Chapter 14) How do the institutions of society change over time and how are these changes related to the "agents of conquest", guns, germs, and steel? A History of the World in Six Glasses “Beer in Mesopotamia and Egypt” 1. How is the discovery of beer linked to the growth of the first “civilizations”? 2. What is the relationship between beer and writing, commerce, and health? “Wine in Greece and Rome” 1. How did the use of wine differ from that of beer in ancient Greece and Rome? 2. How and why did wine develop into a form of a status symbol in Greece? 3. What is the relationship between wine and empire, medicine, and religion? Students will complete an assessment consisting of short essay questions during the first week of school. Students will be allowed to use their handwritten notes during the test. Typed notes will not be allowed. Finally, during the first six weeks of the school year, the students are required to complete an AP World History Map Project. The Map Project is attached hereto for those students wishing to work on the project over the summer. If you have any questions, please e-mail Andree FitzPatrick (
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AP World History Map Project Name _____________________ Period: ____________ Mapping the World - Cartographic Skills Project Objective: To familarize the student in geographical locations around the world and better prepare them for the AP Examination. Vocabulary: grid: series of lines which intersect ones another at right angles; the entire concept of latitude and longitude is based upon a „global grid” latitude: lines or circles drawn on a map or a globe which are designed to measure distance from 0E to 90E north or south of the equator. <
