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AP World History . What is this course???? Divided into 6 periods Period 1 – Foundations (to 600 BCE) Period 2 – Classical (600 BCE to 600CE) Period 3 – Post Classical (600 CE to 1450 CE) Period 4 – Early Modern (1450 CE to 1750 CE) Period 5 – Modern (1750 CE to 1900 CE)
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AP World History • What is this course???? • Divided into 6 periods • Period 1 – Foundations (to 600 BCE) • Period 2 – Classical (600 BCE to 600CE) • Period 3 – Post Classical (600 CE to 1450 CE) • Period 4 – Early Modern (1450 CE to 1750 CE) • Period 5 – Modern (1750 CE to 1900 CE) • Period 6 – Contemporary (1900 CE to now)
THE FIVE THEMES In your notebooks write the letters S P I C E down the left side. Leave a couple of lines between each letter
DEVELOPMENT AND TRANSFORMATION OF SOCIAL STRUCTURES • Gender roles and relations • Family and kinship • Racial and ethnic constructions • Social and economic classes *** This theme is about relations among human beings. All human societies develop ways of grouping their members, as well as norms that govern interaction between individuals and social groups.
STATE BUILDING, EXPANSION, AND CONFLICT (Political) • Political structures and forms of governance • Empires • Nations and Nationalism • Revolts and Revolutions • Regional, transregional, and global structures and organizations *** This theme encourages the comparative study of different state forms (city-states, kingdoms, empires, and nation-states)
INTERACTION BETWEEN HUMANS AND THE ENVIRONMENT • Demography and disease • Migration • Patterns of settlement *** Focuses on how the environment shaped human societies, but also how human societies have affected the environment.
DEVELOPMENT AND INTERACTION OF CULTURES • Religions • Belief systems, philosophies, and ideologies • Science and technology • The arts and architecture ***Relates to how the study of the dominant belief system (s) or religions, philosophical interests, and technical and artistic approaches can reveal how major groups in society view themselves and others, and how they respond to multiple challenges.
CREATION, EXPANSION, AND INTERACTION OF ECONOMIC SYSYTEMS • Agricultural and pastoral production • Trade and commerce • Labor systems • Industrialization • Capitalism and Socialism *** This theme surveys the diverse patterns and systems that human societies have developed as they exploit their environments to produce, distribute, and consume desired goods and services across time and space.
WHAT DOES THAT SPELL? • Social • Political • Interaction • Cultural • Economic