AP World History

Brief Description of Course
World History
2011 - 2012
AP World History will examine cultural, political, and economic developments in World History from
8000 BCE to the Present. The course will make use of a college level textbook to provide a solid
foundation of historical events and trends as well as various primary sources. Students will be
expected to analyze various primary sources as well as secondary sources regarding viewpoints of
various historical controversies. Students will also write several essays throughout the course:
Compare and contrast, Change and continuity over time, and Document Based Questions (DBQs).
Thus, the course will not only provide students with an understanding of events and trends of world
history. but should also develop historical thinking, writing, analytical, and organizational skills.
These skills and course content will assist students in preparation for the College Board AP Exam in
May. Historical Periodization: Period 1: Technological and Environmental Transformations,
8000-600BCE Period 2: Organization and Reorganization of Human Societies, 600BCE- 600CE
Period 3: Regional and Transregional Interactions, 600CE-1450 CE Period 4: Global Interactions,
1450-1750 Period 5: Industrialization and Global Integeration, 1750-1900 Period 6: Accelerating
Global Change and Realignments, 1900-Present Five Course Themes 1. Interaction Between Humans
and Environment Demography and Disease Migration Pattern of Settlement Technology 2.
Development of Interaction of Cultures Religions Belief Systems 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, transregional, and
global structures and organizations 4. Creation, Expansion, and Interaction of Economic Systems
Agricultural and pastoral production Trade and Commerce Labor Systems 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 Historical Thinking
Skills Crafting HIstorical Arguments from Historical Evidence -Historical Arugumentation
-Appropriate Use of relevant historical evidence Chronological Reasoning -Historical Causation
-Patterns of Continuity and Change over time -Periodization Comparison and Contextualization
-Comparison -Contextualization Historical Interpretation and Synthesis -Interpretation -Synthesis Note
in Examining Primary Sources we will use the APPARTS method A-Author P-Point of View P-Place
and Time A-Audience R-Reason for Writing T-The Main Idea S-Significance
Unit Information
Unit Name or Timeframe:
Period 1: Technological and Environmental Transformations, 8000-600 BCE
Pre-Civilization and Early Civilization
2 Weeks
Text Reading: 2-29
Content and/or Skills Taught:
Skills: Historical Interpretation and Compare and Contrast, Cause and Effect, Change and Continuity
over time, Point of View, Primary Source Analysis, Graphs
Terms students must define:
Pre-civilization: Paleolithic, mesolithic, Neolithic, Hunter-Gatherers, Neolithic Revolution, Homo
Sapiens Sapiens, Slash and Burn, Polytheism, Copper, Bronze, Iron
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Early Civilization: Civilization, Monotheism, 4 River Civlization, Meso-Aemrican Early Civ (Chavin
and Olmec), Sumer, Babylon, Hammurabi, Akkad, Ziggurat, Pyramid, Nile, Tigris-Euphrates,
Akhenaton, Pharaoh. Hwang-He, Oracle Bones, Pan-Ku, Indus, Harappa and Mohenjo Daro, Stupa,
Judaism
Lecture-Discussion: Causes and Effects of Neolithic Revolution
Why some in New Guinea and Australia still Hunter-
Gatherers
Compare and Contrast cultural, political and
Economic features of Egypt and Mesopotamia
Overall features of 5 Early Civs (incl MesoAmer)
Judaism chronology
Maps:
Spread of Agriculture from Mideast and other nodes
Spread of humans from Africa to Pacific to Western Hemisph
Location of 5 Early Civs and relation to equator
Change of empires in Mideast
Pictures:
Students to note salient features
-What characteristic of civilization/pre-civ does the
object represent: Various Tools of Hunter-Gatherers
Egyptian Art and Architecture
Mesopotamian Architecture
Mohenjo Daro
China’s Bronze Art
Graphs:
Population Growth of World from 8000 BCE to Present
Primary Source/Paragraph Response:
Pictures of Tools--Purposes of Tools?
Hammurabi’s Code--APPARTS, How does the Code reveal information about gender and class status,
and religion in Babylon?
Secondary Source Paragraph Response:
A Tale of Two Rivers, Nile and Mesopotamia by K. Reilly: Summary of article. Similarities and
Differences between 2 rivers, How would the use of Hammurabi code help or hurt Reilly’s thesis?
Periodization Paragraph Response:
Compare and Contrast overall periodization of Stearns and David Christian
Why are the 5 Early Civilizations different from Pre-History?
Major Assignments and/or Assessments:
Essays:
Compare and Contrast social and economic aspects of pre and early civilization
Analyze Change and Continuity over Time regarding government,
society, and economy in Egypt and Mesopotamia, 3100-600 BCE
Group Work:
Analyze and compare various perpectives by historian as to why humans went from hunter gatherers
to farmers: Stearns, Armesto, Christian, Diamond
Exam:
2 Day Test
Day 1: 40 Multiple Choice Questions
Day 2: 1 Essay-Compare and contrast cultural, political, and economic
aspects of Mesopotamian and Egyptian civilizations, 3100-500 BCE
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Unit Name or Timeframe:
Organization and Reorganization of Human Societies, 600 BCE-600CE
Classical Age
6 Weeks
Text Readings, 35-106
Content and/or Skills Taught:
Skills: Primary Source analysis, Change and Continuity over Time, Compare and Contrast, DBQ
Writing, Graphs
Terms students must define:
China: Zhou, Qin, Han, Daosim, Confucianism, Legalism, Feudalism, bureaucracy, Shi Huangdi, Wu
Ti, Hsiung Nu, Silk Road, Calligraphy, Ancestor Worship
India: Hinduism, Hindu Epics, reincarnation, Buddhism, Siddhartha, Jain, Mauryan, Ashoka, Kush,
Gupta, Golden Age of Gupta
Persia/Greece/Mediterranean: Rise of Persia, Achaemenids, Cyrus, Darius, Xerxes, Zoroastrianism,
Persian Wars with Greece, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Golden Age of Athens, Antigone, Sophocles,
Peloponnesian Wars, Phoenecians, Minoan, Mycenaen, Alexander, Hellenism, Gandharan Art
Rome: Punic Wars, Roman Republic, Caesar, Augustus, Pax Romana Constantine, Roman
Architecture
Lecture-Discussion:
3 Main Philosophies of Classical China
3 Main Religions of India
Greek Philosophy
Causes of Fall of India, Rome, and China
Maps-Identify salient features (geog/political/trade):
Expansionism of China
Spread of influence of HInduism (SE Asia) and Buddhism
Expansion of India
Mediterranean World
Silk Road
Greece Vs Persia
Hellenistic World
Expansion of Roman Empire
World Migrations of 500 BCE, See Stearns Transparency which will include Bantu migrations, Early
Pacific Ocean Migrations along with Huns, etc.
Pictures:
Daoist Vs. Confucian Art
Hinduism or Buddhism?
The Greek Ideal in Architecture and sculpture
Greek influences on Roman art and archtiecture
Graphs:
Rise in Population in China since 200 BCE
Chart of World Religions Today
Primary Source paragraph response:
Differences between Qin and Han (Quotations fm
Shi Huangdi, Li Si, Wang Mang, Wu Ti)
Philosophies of Han Fei Zi, Lao Tzu, Confucius-Who said it?
C/C Philosophical statements of HInduism and Buddhism
C/C Chinese and Indian Philosophies
Allegory of Cave-Summary, Is it religious?
Antigone excerpt-What is Antigone’s dilemma?
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Readings from Christianity-C/C to Plato, Conf, Buddha, Hammurabi
Examine documents that consider Roman and Han attitudes of technology
Secondary Source paragraph response:
Qin and Han Bureaucracy by Patricia Ebrey
Summarize article, explain her thesis, how would documents by the Qin and Han empires help support
Ebrey’s thesis?
Comparison of India and Greece by McNeill- Summary and give 2 similarities and differences
The Greeks and Slavery, Anthony Andrews-Summary, To what extent was Greek society based on
slavery?
Nomads and Cross civilization exchange (spread of Buddhism and Christianity), Bentley-Compare
and contrast spread of Buddhism and Chris.
Periodization paragraph response:
Compare and contrast differences between Hwang-He and Classical Civilization China.
What makes classical civilization "classical?"
Major Assignments and/or Assessments:
Essays:
Analyze the cultural, economic, and political changes and continuities in Classical China, 500
BCE-200 CE.
Compare and contrast philosophies, economies, and governments of classical India and China, 500
BCE-500 CE
Compare and contrast Greek and Roman civilizations
DBQ: Analyze Roman and Han attitudes toward technology
Group: Ann Landers: Philosopher. Students respond to various problems like an advice columist.
However students must respond from the point of view of a classical philosopher: Confucius, Buddha,
Socrates, Aristotle, etc.
Exam:
2 Day Test
Day 1: 70 Multiple Choice Question
Day 2: Essay 1-Analyze the religious, political, and economic
changes and continuities over time in classical India, 1000BCE
to 500 CE.
Essay 2-Compare and contrast the mehtods of political control
between the Han dynasty and imperial Rome.
Unit Name or Timeframe:
Period 3: Regional and Transregional Interactions, 600CE-1450 CE
Post-Classical Era
7 Weeks
Text Readings: 117-352
Content and/or Skills Taught:
Skills: Compare and Contrast, DBQ WRiting, Change and Continuity over Time, Point of View
Terms students must define:
Rise of Islam: Bedouins, Muhammad, Quraysh, Umayyad, Banu-Hashim, Mecca, Medina, Hjira, 5
Pillars, Quran, Qanats, spread of Islam, Shia-Sunni split, 3 Holy cities of Islam, Muawiya, Mawalis,
Dhimmis, Caliphate, Abassid, Islamic Golden Age, Harun Al Rashid, Primacy of Baghdad
Islamic World: Cordoba Caliphate, ulama, sufis, Rubiyat, Saladin, Seljuk Turks, Buyids, Madluks, Al
Razi, Averroes, Harsha, Gazni, Ghur, Delhi Sultaniate, Shrivijaya
Africa in post-classical world: Bantu Migrations, stateless societies, animism, Sahel Kingdoms,
Ghana, Mali, Songhai, Almoravids, Sundiata, griot, Mansa Musa, Gold for salt trade, Timbuktu,
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Matriarchy, Kongo confederacy, Great Zimbabwe, Axum, Swahili Coast
Eastern post-classical Europe: Byzantine Empire, Justinian, Hagia Sophia, Theodora, E. Orthodox,
iconoclasm, Schism 1054, Bulgaria, Tsar, slavs, Manzikert, Sack of Constantinople, Russia, Muscovy,
Rurik, Kiev,Cyril and Methodius, Vladamir I
Post-Classical Europe: Feudalism, Manorialism, Rise of Christianity, Clovis, Charlemagne,
monasteries, Treaty of Verdun, Vikings, Magyars, Moors, Crusades, New Ag Tech, Commercial
Revolution, investiture, Hanseatic League, Scholasticism, Magna Carta, 100 yrs war, Black Plague,
Vernacular
Meso and South America on the eve of European Encounter: Olmecs, Teotihuacan, Toltecs, Aztecs,
Nahuatl,Quetzalcoatl, chinampas, Mayas, calpulli, Chavin, Nazca, Tiwanaku, Incas, Ayulli, terraces,
tambos, quipus
Post-Classical China: Sui, Tang, Song, Grand Canal, Jurchens, Liao, Tang Taizong, N and S Song,
Kaifeng and Hangzhou, Buddhism in China, Tang-Song Golden Age, Li Bo and Tu Fu, Wang An Shi,
Scholar Gentry, Neo Confucianism
Post-Classical East Asia: 3 Kingdoms of Korea, 3 Dynasties (Silla, Koryo, Choson), Mongol rule,
Achievements of Choson Dynastiy, Han-Gul, Buddhism and Conf in Korea, Nara, Kyoto, Fujiwara,
Gempei Wars, Samurai, Daimyo, Shogun, Hiragana, Bushido, Kanji, Zen
Post-Classical SE Asia: Truong Sisters, Le Dynasty, Nguyen Dynasty, Burma, Pagan, Anarwatha,
Cambodia, Ankor Wat, Thailand, Sukhotai, Hinduism and Buddhism in Indochina
Mongols: Temujin, Chinggis Khan, Chabi, Kubilai Khan, Ogedai, Batu, Golden Horde,Weapons and
strategy of Mongols, Yuan Dynasty, Tatu, Kharakorum, Hulegu, Ilkhanate, Prester John, Novgorod,
Kiev, Timurlame
Post-Mongol World: "Destruction of Philosophy," Ottoman Turks, Ming Dynasty, Zheng-He, Rise of
West, Plague, Venice, Vivaldis, Renaissance, Petrarch, Dante, Vernacular, Reconquista, Prince Henry
the Navigator
Pacific in Post-classical Era: Polynesia, Maori, Hawaii.
Lecture Discussion:
Main ideas of Islam
To what extent was Islam a World Civilization?
Compare and contrast status of women in Islamic regions of AFrica, Mideast, SE Asia.
How and Why did Islam spread to Africa
Compare and contrast East and West Christianity
Compare and contrast post classical Europe to Middle East
How did Aztecs, Mayans, and Incans use and abuse environment?
Compare and contrast Confucianism and Neoconfucianis
Compare and contrast influence of China on Korea and Japan
Influence of India and China on SE Asia
Were Mongols helpful or hurtful toward civilization?
How did Afroeurasia respond to the decline of the Mongols?
Qanats-A photo study, from Waterhistory.org
Analyze the way the Pacific was inhabited
Maps-Identify salient geographic, political, economic features:
Spread of Islam
Islam Today
Change and continuity of Sahel Civilzation
Change and continuity of Byzantines
Emergence of modern states in Medieval Europe
Aztec, Mayan, Incan empires
Sui, Tang, and Song Empires
3 kingdoms in Korea
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SE Asian Kingdoms
Expansion of Mongols
Eastern Hemisphere after the Mongols
Spread of Polynesian culture
Pictures:
Mongolian Weaponry-uses and advancements
Compare and contrast Art of Mid Ages to Renaissance
Art of Tang and Song Era-Confucianist of Buddhist?
Indian and Chinese influence on temple art of SE Asia
Influence of Greece and Rome on Medieval architecture
Pyramid architecture of Mayans and Aztecs
Usages of environment in Meso and S. America
Islamic influence on Art and architecture in Africa
Byzantine art and heroic representations of Jesus
Compare and contrast images of Jesus, Buddha, Muhammad
Periodization Paragraph:
To what extent was Islamic civilization the result of classsical civilization ideas?
Why is Islam NOT included with other classical civ religions?
Should Byzantine Empire be considered classical?
Compare and contrast Greek and Roman civ to post-classical Europe
To what extent was the classical different from the post-classical age?
Graphs:
Effect of plague on populations in China, Mideast, Europe
Primary Sources Paragraph Response:
Quran Reading, APPARTS, Compare to New Testament
Islamic and Arab documents that are to be compared to Greek civilization
Sundiata, APPARTS, To what extent was the story of Sundiata influenced by Islam?
Ibn Battuta, APPARTS and analyze Battuta’s various responses to Islam of
Eastern and Northern Africa
Justinian Code, APPARTS, Compare the code to Roman Law during Republic
Analyze documents that reveal changes in church-state relations in Medieval Europe
Li Po and Tu Fu poetry-how do poets represent Tang and Song era?
Saigyo poems (Tanka)-How do his poems represent 1100s Japan?
Secondary Sources Paragraph Response:
Expanison of Islam-Ira Lapidus, Summary and compare to Stearns
Women in Islamic World- Albert Hourain, What is his thesis and how does he support it?
Byzantine Empire: Defense, Decline, Resilience,Robert Browning-How was Byzantine Empire able to
continue to exist well past Rome?
Daily Life in 13th c. China, Jacques Gernet-Compare to Tang and Song era
Women in Early Japan, Jeffrey Mass-Compare to women of Islam
Maritime Expediitons of Ming China, Philip Sam-What were causes of overseas exploration of
Zheng-He
Major Assignments and/or Assessments:
Essays:
Compare and contrast spread of Islam to that of Christianity
Analyze social, political, and economic changes and contiunuities in Mideast, 500 CE-1000 CE
Analyze religious, political, and economic changes and continuities in Byzantine empire, 500-1300
Compare and contrast the development of post classical Europe and the Mideast, 500-1300
Compare and contrast the impact of the Mongols on Russia and China
Compare and contrast political and religious aspects of the Incas and Aztecs
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DBQ: Analyze the responses to Buddhism in post-classical China
Group Work:
Make a Newspaper from one of the regions taken by the Mongols. Choose a point of view of Mongol
occupation, either from the Mongol point of view or the point of view of an individual from the
territory being conquered.
Exam:
2 Day Test
Day 1: 70 Multiple Choice Questions
Day 2: Essay 1: Analyze religious, economic, and political changes and
continuities in the Sahel, 500-1450 CE
Essay 2: Compare and contrast political and cultural
influences of China on Korea and Japan, 500-1450 CE
Final Exam For First Semester/but will also begin working on period 4
for next semester.
Final Exam (1.5 hours): 70 Questions
1 DBQ: Analyze the attitudes toward trade by Islam and
Christianity from their origins to 1500.
Unit Name or Timeframe:
Period 4: Global Interactions, 1450-1750
6 Weeks
Text Readings, 354-528
Content and/or Skills Taught:
Skills: Analysis of Documents, Compare and Contrast, Change and continuity, Point of View,
interpretation of historical perspectives
Terms students must define:
Rise of the West: Renaissance, Reformation, Age of Exploration, Scientific Revolution,
Enlightenment, Absolutism, Da Vinci, Martin Luther, Galileo, Newton, Locke, Voltaire, Montesquieu,
Louis XIV, Charles I, English Civil War,English Bill of Rights,
Age of Exploration: Marco Polo, Henry the Navigator, Dias, DaGama, Goa, Malacca, Hormuz,
Swahili Coast, Columbus, Treaty of Tordesillas, Lepanto, Verazzano, Cabot, Cartier, Magellan,
Cortez, Pizarro, Columbian Exchange, Captain Cook’s voyages in Pacific (hawaii)
Russia after Mongols: Muscovy, Ivan III, IV, Time of Troubles, Romanovs, Peter Great, Catherine
Great, Poland, Cossacks, Pugachev, serfdom
European Colonization of Latin America: Cortez, Moctezuma, Pizarro, Atahualpa, Jesuits, Sor Juan
Inez de la Cruz, Bourbon Reforms, Pombal Reforms, Castas, Zacatecas, Potosi
Islamic Empires after Mongols: Ottomans, Mughals, Safavids, Janissaries, Battle of Chaldiran,
Lepanto, gunpowder, Shah
Atlantic Slave Trade: El Mina, Middle Passage, Equiano, Wilberforce, Triangle Trade, Salt water and
creole slaves, Maroons, Nzinga Mbemba, Queen Nzinga, King Alfonso, Luanda, Benin, Royal African
Co.
China and East Asia After the Mongols: Ming Dynasty, Zheng-He, Matteo Ricci, Jesuits in Asia, Rise
of Qing, Ashikaga Era, 3 Unifiers of Japan, Chrisitianity in Japan, Tokugawa Era
Lecture and Discussion:
Analyze how Renaissance caused Age of Exploration,Reformation, Scientific Revolution and
Enlightenment
Main Ideas of Enlightenemnt
Causes and outcomes of exploration of Indian Ocean and New World
Columbian Exchange
Analyze social, political, economic features of Ottoman, Mughal, and Safavid empires
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Sikhism main features
Causes and characteristics of Slave Trade
Ways that Slaves resisted
Analyze Western influence on Asia, 1500-1800
Maps-Identify geographic, political, and economic features:
Europe and AfroEurasia on the eve of Age of Exploration
Map showing major exploration routes
Map showing 3 major Islamic empires
Triangle trade and regions of AFrica where slaves came from
Map showing history of AFrican slave trade before 1500s
Travels of Zheng He
Unification of Japan in 1603
Pictures:
Images of power in Absolutist Europe
Change over time of European perception of New World peoples
Hindu influences on Islamic/Mughal Art
Slave conditions
Castas paintings
Ways Jesuits adopted Asian culture
Japan during Tokugawa Era-Sumo, Kabuki, ink engravings
Periodization Paragraph:
Compare and contrast the role of the WEST between periods of 500-1450 and 1450-1750.
Why is Columbus’ Voyages a turning point in World Hist?
Graphs:
Migrations from Europe to New World
Slave exports from AFrica to New World
Decrease in New World Native Populations
Rise and Fall of silver mined from South America
Primary Sources Paragraph Responses:
Locke and Social Contract-APPARTS, compare Locke’s social contract to Hobbes
Columbus’s Letter of 1st Voyage-APPARTS, To what extent was Columbus ethnocentric?
Travels in the Moghul Empire, Bernier-APPARTS, Compare to Columbus’ perception of
Non-europeans
Analyze set of documents on reaction to Slavery (Mbemba, Isabella, Equiano, etc)-APPARTS
Secondary Sources Paragraph Response:
Burckhart Thesis: To What extent was it correct?
Nationalism and Exploration, Reed-Why Portugal?
Muslims in Ming China, Rossabi-What is thesis and how is it supported?
The Ottoman Empire and its Successors, Mansfield-What were the causes of the rise and decline of
Ottomans? Other factors Mansfield did not discuss?
Africans and the AFrican Slave TRade, Thornton-Why is the article controversial?
Major Assignments and/or Assessments:
Essays:
Analyze political, social, and economic changes and continuities in Europe, 1450-1750
Compare and contrast Spanish and Portuguese colonization to England, France, Netherlands
Compare and contrast Labor systems of Latin America and Russia,
1450-1750.
Compare and contrast social, political, and economic features
of Mughal and Ottoman Empires
Analyze the changes and continuities over time in Japan
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egarding government and religion, 1450-1750.
Compare and contrast the impact of European ideas in Japan and
China, 1450-1750
Group:
Group will take on a particular castas group and explain the
Casta point of view for various scenarios. Group will explain the origins of various everyday foods to
show the modern impact of Columbian Exchange
Exam:
2 Day Test
Day 1: 70 Multiple Choice Questions
Day 2: Essay 1: Analyze changes and continuities in the Indian Ocean,
650-1750 CE.
Essay 2: Compare and contrast racial attitudes between North
and South America, 1492-1750.
Unit Name or Timeframe:
Period 5: Industrialization and Global Integeration, 1750-1900
Industrial Age
6 Weeks
Text Readings: 530-667
Content and/or Skills Taught:
Skills: Analysis of Documents, Compare and Contrast, Change Over time,
Point of View, DBQ Writing
Terms Students Must Define:
Revolutions: Thomas Jefferson, events leading up to the Declaration of Independence, Declaration of
Independence, Articles of Confederation, US Constitution, French Revolution, Louis XVI, 3 Estates,
4 stages of French Revolution, Robespierre, Napoleon, Concert of Vienna, Balance of Power
Industrial Revolution: Watt, Spinning Jenny, railroad, capitalism, socialism, conservative, liberal,
utilitarianism, Revolutions of 1848, unifications of Germany and Italy, Darwin, Nietzsche, Pankhurst,
Alliances to 1914 in Europe
European Imperialism: Cecil Rhodes, King Leopold, Berlin Conference,
Scramble for Africa, Cape ot Cairo Railroad, Muhammad Ali, Liberia and Ethiopia, Omdurman,
Opium Wars, Sepoy Rebellion, Australia and Pacific Conquests by English
Post-Independence Latin-America: Bourbon Reforms, Pombal Reforms, San Martin, Bolivar,
L’overture, Hidalgo, Iturbide, Santa Ana, Juarez, Emperor Maximilian, Diaz, caudillos, Sarmiento,
Gauchos, War of Pacific,
War of Triple Alliance, Monroe Doctrine, Roosevelt Corrollary to Monroe
Decline of Ottomans and Egypt: Janissaries, Austria-Hungary, Sultan Selim, Mahmud II, Tanzimat
Regforms, Abdul Hamid, Young Turks, Muhammad Ali Mamluks, Suez Canal, Khedive, Mahdi
Dcline of Qing: Manchus, Kangxi, Qing bureaucracy, Opium War, Taiping Rebellion, Boxer
Rebellion, Sun Yat Sen
Russian Industrialization: Decembrist Rebellion, Alexander II, Serfdom, Crimean War, Zemstvoes,
Trans Siberian Railroad, Count Witte, anarchists, Alexander III, Nicholas II, Lenin, Russo-Japanese
War, Bloody Sunday, Duma
Japanese Industrialization: Matthew Perry, Terakoya, Dutch Studies, Meiji Restoration, Satsuma
Rebellion, Young Samurai, Diet, Zaibatsu, Sino-Japanese War
Lecture and Discussion:
Compare and contrast Causes and Outcomes of French and American revolutions
Causes and Responses to Industrial Revolution
Nationalism in 19th c. Europe
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Causes and Outcomes of Euorpean Imperialism
Anti-Imperialist Resistance in India and Africa
Social, Political, and Economic causes and outcomes of Latin American Revolutions
Compare and contrast decline of Ottoman and Qing Dynasty
Compare and contrast political reforms of Russia and Japan in 1800s
To what extent had Russia, Japan, China, and Ottomans westernized by 1914?
Maps-Identify geographic, political,economic features:
Expansion of America after revolution
Napoleon conquests and Concert of Vienna Map
Africa before and after scramble for Africa
European and Aisan colonies in Asia/Pacific
Map of new Latin American nations compared to old spanish viceroyalties
Rebellions in China in 19th c.
European spheres of influence in China
Wars between China-Japan, Russia-Japan
Japan’s colonies by 1914
Pictures:
Compare and contrast revolutionary clothing of America, France, Haiti, Mexico, Gran Colombia
Impact of westernization on African women of Senegal in 19 c.
Elements of industrialization in European colonies
Photographs of mutilation of natives in Congo
Westernization of Ottoman Empire
Women in factories in Japan
Bloody Sunday Massacre photos
Periodization Paragraph:
Compare and contrast European colonization of 1500-1700
to imperialism of 1800-1900
What were factors that brought on a new era of individial rights in
18th century?
Compare and contrast the methods labor with the previous era (1450-1750)
Graphs:
Public education in 19th c. Europe
Increase in Population in Europe
Compare and contrast textile production in India and Japan
Sugar Production in Haiti before and after 1804
China and Japanese industrial output from 1900 to present
Primary Sources Paragraph Responses:
Documents on arguments for womens rights, 1750-1914
(DeGouges, Mill, Wollstonecraft)-APPARTS
Berlin Conference-Analyze causes and goals of imperialism
Bolivar’s views of government for Gran Colombia -APPARTS, To what extent was Bolivar
influenced by the Englightenment?
Proclamation by Young Turks-APPARTS, Japanese Constitution, Count Ito-APPARTS, How did Ito
justify the Japanese constitution
Secondary Sources Paragraph Response:
The Making of European Society: England the First to Industrialize, Heilbronner-Why was England
the first to industrialize?
By Reasonable Force: Political and International Relations in South America, Robert Burr-Why was
Europe able to exert influence in independent S. America?
Minorities in the Ottoman Empire, Bernard Lewis-How was the problem of religious minorities
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elaxed under Tanzimat Reforms?
Major Assignments and/or Assessments:
Essays:
Analyze social, economic, and political changes and continuities in Europe, 1750-1914
DBQ on responses to European Imperialism in Africa
Compare and contrast causes and outcomes of wars of independence of North and South America
Analyze the changes and continuities of world migrations from 1700-1900
Compare and contrast influences of the west on China and Ottoman Empire, 1750-1914
DBQ: Analyze main features, causes, and consequences of indentured servitude in 1800s and early
1900s with special emphasis on Asian migration to Hawaii
Group:
Each group of 4 will represent an ideology of 19 c. Europe and
develop responses based on that point of view from various scenarios
Mock Trial for Imperialism: Cecil Rhodes, Leopold, Bismarck,
Robert Clive
Group will create and present a rebellion speech by one of the
19th c. Latin American revolutionaries-explaining where support
will come from and goals and visions of the future of Latin
America
Exam:
2 Day Test
Day 1: 70 Multiple Choice Questions
Day 2: Essay 1: Analyze social, economic, and political changes and
continuities in the Ottoman Empire, 1750-1914.
Essay 2: Compare and contrast moves to democracy in 19th
Russia and Japan.
Unit Name or Timeframe:
Period 6: Accelerating Global Change and Realignments, 1900-Present
20t century in World History
7 Weeks
Text Readings: 668-885
Content and/or Skills Taught:
Skills: Compare and Contrast, Document Analysis, Analyzing various historical viewpoints, point of
view analysis, change and continuity over time, DBQ Writing
Terms students must define:
International Conflicts: Triple Entente and Central Powers, weapons of WWI, trench warfare, Battles
of Western and Eastern Front, Serbian nationalist movement, Balfour Declaration, Treaty of
Versailles, League of Nations, new nations after WWI, Great Depression, Nazi Party, Hitler,
Mussolini, Stalin, Churchill, Roosevelt, Tripartite Agreement, Pearl Harbor, Stalingrad, Tojo,
Hiroshima, Holocaust, Yalta, Potsdam, NATO, nuclear weapons, Detente, Warsaw Pact, SALT I, II,
Fall of communism, Yugoslavia of 1990s
Western Society of 20th c.: Roaring 20s, Great Depression, Advertising,
radio, tv, space race, personal computer, vaccines, transpants, DNA, consumerism, women’s
movement, environment movement, civil rights, New religious movements in west influenced by East
(Zen and Hare Krishna)
Russia in 20th c.: Lenin, Trotsky, Stalin, Bolsheviks, March Revolution, November Revolution, Civl
War, NEP, Collectivization, 5 yr plan, Warsaw Pact, Brezhnev Doctrine, Khrushchev, SALT I, II,
Helsinki Accords, Detente, 1980s Cold War, Gorbachev, Solidarity, 1989 Revolutions, Yeltsin, Putin
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Japan and Pacific Rim in 20th c.: Japan in 1920s, 1930s, Korkiyo Takeshima, zaibatsu, Japanese
miracle after WWII, Chiang Kai Shek, MacARthur, LDP, Korean War, Asian Tigers
Latin America in 20th c.: Mexican Revolution, Diaz, Madero, Heuerta, Zapata, Villa, Obregon,
Cardenas, Diego Rivera, PRI, NAFTA, European immigration, syndicalization, Peron, Vargas, Castro,
ARbenz, UFCO, Allende, Liberation Theology, Alliance for PRogress, communism in Nicaragua
Decolonization and Decline of European World Order: Indian National Congress, Muslim League,
Tilak, Gokhale, Minto Reforms, Amritsar Massacre, Gandhi, Satyagraha, Quit India Movement,
Khedives, Dinshawai Incident, WAFD Party,Nasser, Balfour Declaration, Israeli Independence,
Knesset, Nkrumah, OAS, Atlantic Charter, KAU, Algerian Independence, Settler colonies
Asia and Africa after Independence: India and Pakistan crisis, Arab-Israeli Conflict, 6 Day War, Yom
Kippur War, Damp David Agreement, PLO, Palestine Authority, Oslo Accords, Iranian Revolution,,
Iran-Iraq War, Gulf War, Congo overthrow of Lumumba, Nigerian Civil War, Apartheid, Sharpsville
Massacre, ANC, Mandela, Soweto, Neo-colonialism
China and Vientamese Revolutions: Sun Yat Sen, Chiang Kai Shek, Long March, Mao Zedong, Oct
1949 Revolution, Great Leap Forward, Sino-Soviet Split, Cultural Revolution, Deng Xiao Ping,
Tiananmen Massacre, Viet Minh, Geneva Accords, NLF,Diem, Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, US
Involvment, Tet Offensive, Chinese invasion of Vietnam, Invasion of
Cambodia, Normalization of relations with US
Ho Chi Minh
Lecture and Discussion:
Compare and contrast WWI and WWII
Why is WWI considered a world war?
Analyze political, cultural, and economic changes and continuities in Europe, 1914-2000
Features of Western Culture in 20th c.
Search for spiritualism in the West: Zen and Hare Krishna Movement
Impact of Cold War on Western Society
Causes and Outcomes of Russian Revolution
Analyze similarities and differences among "Asian Tigers" in 20th c.
Compare and contrast post WWII Korea and Japan
Causes and outcomes of Mexican Revolution
Compare and contrsat settler and non-settler colony rebellions
Analyze impact of WWII on anti-imperialist movements in Asia and Africa
Role of women in Latin America in 20th c.
Problems that confronted newly independent nations
Impact of communism in China
Causes of Sino-Soviet Split
Maps-Identify social, geographic, political, and economic features:
Europe before and after WWI and WWII
Communism in Europe/East and West Alliances and Neutrals
EU and NAFTA
Malarial Areas in 20th c.
AIDS areas in 20th c.
Areas of Latin America US intervened in 20th c.
1965 Independent Nations
2011 Independent Nations
Identify regions of conflict in AFrica and Asia since
independence--Same with Middle East conflicts
Long March
Modern China and Taiwan
North and South Vietnam
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Southeast Asia today
Pictures:
Indian soldiers fighting in WWI
Weapons of WWI
WWI propaganda posters-What concerns were nations appealing to?
Great Depression images
WWII dictators-images of power?
holocaust victims
WWII weaponry
Modern Art (Dada, surrealism, cubism, etc)
Architcture of 20th c.-Salient Features
Art of Diego Rivera-How does it represent issues of Mexico in 20th c.?
Nationalistic clothing of Asian and AFrican revolutionaries
Major figures of Russian Revolution
Soviet and communist China propaganda-How does it represent communist ideals?
Aspects of traditions in modern home in Japan
Cultural Revolution demonstrators-Who is participating?
Graphs:
Compare and contrast human and financial cost of WWI and WWII
Employment of women in select western countries in 20th c.
Employment of women in USSR vs. US in 20th c.
Growth of Pacfic Rim economies since WWII
European immigration to various Latin American nations in 20 c.
Rates of AIDS and Malaria in Africa compared to Asia and West
Population growth of China since Revolution
Compare GDP of AFrica with that of Asia, Latin America, West
since Decolonization
Rates of heart disease in world since 1945
Periodization Paragraphs:
Is globalization a continuation or departure from
20th c. society, politics, and economy?
Analyze why the 20th century is more violent than 19th c.
Compare and contrast 19th and 20th c. independence movements
How was WWI a Turning Point in World History?
Primary Sources Paragraph Responses:
Nazi concentration camps, Bettleheim-APPARTS
Soviet Collectivization, Staliln-APPARTS
Feminine Mystique Excerpt, Friedan-APPARTS, What were expectations of women after WWII?
Christianity and Communism in Latin America, Torres-APPARTS, To what extent did Latin America
accept Liberation Theology?
Neo-Colonialism, Kwame Nkrumah-APPARTS
Communism in China, Mao Zedong- How did Mao’s writing predict the later policies of Great Leap
Forward?
Secondary Sources Paragraph Responses:
Origins of WWI: Militant Patriotism, Stramberg-To what extent can WWI be blamed on patriotism?
Globalization, Friedman-To what extent is globalization a continuation of or departure from the Cold
War?
After communism: Causes for collapse, Heilbronner-How would Stalin document help Heilbronner’s
thesis
Inequality, Repression, Rebellion in Latan America, DeSoto-To what extent would Torres document
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support DeSoto’s thesis?
Economic Decoloniation and Development in Africa, DK Fieldhouse-To what extent can Africa’s
economic problems be blamed on colonization?
Major Assignments and/or Assessments:
Essays:
Analyze changes and continuities in European politics, culture
and economy, 1914-2000
Compare and contrast WWI and WWII
DBQ essay on factors that shaped the modern olympics movement
DBQ essay-Analyze issues of 20th century Islam in S. Asia and N. Africa.
Compare and contrast post WWII Korea and Japan
Group:
Give a region to each group. Each group must analyze
how their region responded to various events of 20th c.
Review for AP Exam: Each group will create a poster which
will represent the main concepts of a particular period in
history: For example, the 20th century: Changes over time,
significant social, political, and economic events and trends.
Exam:
2 Day Test
Day 1: 70 Multiple Choice Questions
Day 2: Essay 1: Compare and contrast the Mexican and Chinese
Revolutions in the 20th c.
Essay 2: Analyze the political, economic, and cultural
changes and continuities in Russia, 1900-2000.
Final Exam for Second Semester(1.5 hours): 70 Multiple Choice from
2nd semester material
DBQ Essay: Green Revolution
Textbooks
Title:World Civilizations: Sources, Images, and Interpr
Publisher: McGraw Hill
Published Date: 2006
Author: Dennis Sherman
Second Author: A. Tom Grunfeld
Description:
Source book contains various primary and secondary sources.
Title:Worlds of History: A Comparative Reader, Vol. 1, 2
Publisher: Bedford St. Martins
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Published Date: 2000
Author: Kevin Reilly
Description:
Sourcebook contains various primary and secondary sources to provide historical perspectives.
Title:Worlds of History: A Comparative Reader, 3rd Ed.
Publisher: Bedford/St. Martins
Published Date: 2009
Author: Kevin Reilly
Description:
Sourcebook contains various primary and secondary sources to provide historical perspectives.
Title:Worlds of History: A Comparative Reader, Vol. 1,
Publisher: Bedford/St. Martins
Published Date: 2004
Author: Kevin Reilly
Description:
Sourcebook contains various primary and secondary sources for historical perspectives.
Title:World Civilizations: The Global Experience
Publisher: Pearson-Longman
Published Date: 2002
Author: Peter N. Stearns
Second Author: Michael Adas
Description:
This is the primary textbook for the course. Text divides history into 6 eras which reflect the college
board syllabus.
Text also includes various primary source readings as well as graphs and maps.
Title:Traditions and Encounters: A Global Perspective o
Publisher: McGraw Hill
Published Date: 2008
Author: Jerry H. Bentley
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Second Author: Herbert F. Ziegler
Description:
Textbook is used to provide more substantial information on various areas of World History. Text also
provides some
relevant primary sources: Quran reading and New Testament documents. Text also provides relevant
graphs and maps.
Title:Encounters in World History, Vol. 1, 2
Publisher: McGraw Hill
Published Date: 2006
Author: Thomas Sanders
Second Author: Samuel Nelson
Description:
Sourcebook is used to provide primary and secondary sources as well as maps and graphs.
Title:The Pattern of the Chinese Past
Publisher: Stanford University
Published Date: 1973
Author: Mark Elvin
Description:
This edition provides various secondary sources on China’s history as well as
thematic maps of China and graphs regarding population and resource usage.
Title:This Fleeting World: A Short History of Humanity
Publisher: Berkshire
Published Date: 2010
Author: David Christian
Description:
Quick overall summary of world history.
Provides other possible ways of arranging historical periods. Good perspective on why humans
became farmers.
Title:Civilizations: Culture, Ambtion, and the Transfor
Publisher: Touchstone
Published Date: 2002
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Author: Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
Description:
Environmental perspective of world history. Provides a religious perspective as to why humans
became farmers.
Title:Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societ
Publisher: Norton
Published Date: 1999
Author: Jared Diamond
Description:
Provides a good description of a few reasons why humans became farmers.
Also Diamond offers explanations on how the enviornment impacted development of Polynesia and
why New Guinea and Australia still have hunter gatherers.
Title:Indian Art
Publisher: Thames and Hudson
Published Date: 1995
Author: Roy C. Craven
Description:
Art book that provides good examples of Indus valley art that can help students later see the
syncretism in Indian religion. Also provides good examples of how western and Indian art combined
to create Gandharan art.
Websites
URL:http://www.waterhistory.org
Description:
For information on qanats
URL:http://www.who.org
Description:
UN’s World Health Organization website provides graphs and charts on malaria,
heart disease and population statistics.
URL:http://www.afe.easia.columbia.edu
Description:
Asia for educators website provides
primary sources for document assignements
as well as graphs and mapa resources.
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URL:http://www.IMF.org
Description:
International Monetary Fund site has statistics on 20th century economic growth
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