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Five AP World History Themes

Explore the five AP World History themes - Interaction Between Humans and the Environment, Development and Interaction of Cultures, State-Building, Expansion, and Conflict, Creation, Expansion, and Interaction of Economic Systems, Development and Transformation of Social Structures - to categorize historical information and gain a holistic view of global developments.

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Five AP World History Themes

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  1. Five AP World History Themes • Help to organize historical information • Help to get the “big picture” • Can assist in seeing similarities and differences, and continuities and changes in history. In theory, all characteristics and events in history fall into one or more of these 5 themes.

  2. Theme 1: Interaction Between Humans and the Environment • How the environment shapes human societies • How humans impact/use the environment (pollution, deforestation, natural resources, etc.) • Technology that helps humans conquer the environment • Diseases and their impacts • The larger the population, the greater the human influence on the environment, especially after the Industrial Revolution • Eventually, human conservation/protection of the environment

  3. Theme 2: Development and Interaction of Cultures • Origins, uses, spread, and adaptation of ideas, beliefs, and knowledge within and between societies • By identifying the cultural characteristics of a society, we can better identify what makes them similar and different from other cultures around the world • By analyzing the culture of a society over time, we can better understand major changes to belief systems in a society, along with the causes and effects of those changes

  4. Theme 3: State-Building, Expansion, and Conflict • Understanding and comparing different types of governments over time, and how those governments change • Different types of states (civilizations, empires, nations, etc) and comparisons between them • Relationships between various states, including diplomacy, warfare, exchanges economically and culturally, and international organizations • Understanding how the development of a state is related to that states culture, environment, social structures, forms of production, and gender roles

  5. Theme 4: Creation, Expansion, and Interaction of Economic Systems • Patterns and systems that humans have developed to produce, distribute, and consume goods and services • Major changes in economic systems over time (rise of farming, industrial rev. etc.) • Development and transformation of labor systems over time (slavery, job specialization, free labor, working class, etc.) • Effects of trade systems including increased communication, cultural and technological diffusion, migration, and creation of new societies

  6. Theme 5: Development and Transformation of Social Structures Relationships between humans, how societies develop ways of grouping/organizing their people. Societies often group themselves based on kinship (families by blood), religion, and hierarchies of gender, race, wealth, and class. • Understand the causes and effects of how these social structures and practices are created, maintained, and transformed over time

  7. Easy to remember right? Or, we can remember SPICE • Pass out SPICE charts! • On the SPICE chart, write down the theme name next to the category you think it best matches.

  8. Works Cited • College Board • Norma Marsh • Google Images • World History For Us All

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