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Introduction to AP World History Themes and Key Concepts

This chapter introduces the five themes of AP World History, explores the interaction between humans and the environment, development and interaction of cultures, state building, economic systems, and social structures. It also covers key concepts such as prehistory, early agricultural societies, and river valley civilizations.

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Introduction to AP World History Themes and Key Concepts

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  1. Chapter 1

  2. The Five Themes of AP World History • Theme 1 – Interaction between humans and the environment • Theme 2 – Development and Interaction of Cultures • Theme 3 – State-building, expansion and conflict • Theme 4 – Creation, expansion and interactions of Economic Systems • Theme 5 – Development and transformation of social structures

  3. Week Three (August 22-26) • Day 1- Chapter 4 Quiz • Day 2- -( SPICE Chart- Persia and Classical Greece Due) • Week Four (August 28-September 1) • Day 1 Chapter 5 Quiz- • Day 2 –(SPICE Chart- Qin, Han, Roman Republic, Roman Empire Due) • Week Five (September 6-9) • Day 1-Chapter 6 Quiz- • Day 2-(SPICE Chart- Vedic Age, Mauryan and Gupta Due)

  4. Think SPICE • S- Social • Groups within society especially based on gender, or status • P- Political • Who rules, why, military • I- Interaction with the environment • How did people effect the environment- Resources • C- Culture • Things that people develop- Inventions, advancements, arts, sciences, religion • E- Economics • What did people do to make a living- Labor, supply, demand, resources,

  5. Period 1 Prehistory-600 BCE • Key Concepts • 1.1 Big geography and the peopling of the earth • 1.2 The Neolithic Revolution and Early agricultural societies • 1.3 The development and interaction of Early Agricultural pastoral and Urban Societies

  6. Week One (August 8-12) • Day 1- • a. Introduction- analyze population growth over the last 100,000 years (David Christian page 143) • b. Frontload Chapter 1 • Day 2- Chapter 1 Quiz (pages 5-32) (Read Gerda Lerner, The Urban Revolution: Origins of Patriarchy) • a. Discuss the Gerda article. Create a chart showing the similarities and differences between hunting gathering societies and agrarian societies. • b. Frontload chapter 2

  7. Week Two (August 15-19) • Day 1 -chapter 2 Quiz (pages 39-51, and 54-58) (SPICE Chart- Early River valley civilizations Due) • a. Students will discuss the social and political similarities and differences between Mesopotamia and Ancient Egypt • b. Frontload chapter 3 • Day 2- Chapter 3 Quiz (63-70 + 78-91)( SPICE Chart- China , Latin America Due) • a. Bring Human Record to class---Read The Judgment of Hammurabi, Tale of the Eloquent Peasant, A Pyramid Text, A Coffin Text, and the Negative Confession. • b Students will create a chart labeling the SPICE themes of each river valley civilization

  8. Early Humans • Archaeological evidence helped scientists to trace the evolution of human beings over a period of 4 million years. • Homo erectus (1.8 million years ago) • Homo sapiens (400,000 to 100,000 years ago). • Migrations were accompanied by minor physical changes • skin pigmentation • Humans adapted to their new environments through a process of cultural adaptation.

  9. Stone Age • Paleolithic (Old Stone Age—to 10,000 years ago) • Hunter Gatherers/Foragers • Fire - 1 to 1.5 million years ago • cooking can only be found as far back as 12,500 years ago. • slow maturation rate of human infants causes of the development of the two-parent family • Early Gender roles existed • Free time led to cultural activities: • gathering, organizing and passing on information, art, and religion. • Cave art suggests that Ice Age people had a complex religion. • Their burial sites indicate that they may have believed in an afterlife. • Neolithic (New Stone Age)

  10. Neolithic Revolution • 10,000 years ago • Agricultural revolutions • First Mesopotamia then other regions • Pastoralism • Small towns • Basic religions • Some specialization of labor • Jericho and Çatal Hüyük

  11. Mesopotamia • Tigris and Euphrates Rivers- unpredictably • 3000 b.c.e. -constructing irrigation canals • Sumerians then Semitic • Villages and cities linked through trade- • often warred over resources • Large labor forces • Political institutions • Sargon • Hammurabi • Religious institutions –anthropomorphic gods • The Epic of Gilgamesh • Social classes --Gender, wealth, power, position. • Advancements • Cuneiform, irrigation, transportation technologies bronze metallurgy, brickmaking, engineering, and pottery full-time soldiers, horse-drawn chariot, the bow and arrow, and siege machinery, numbers and made advances in mathematics and astronomy.

  12. Egypt • Regular flooding, fertile land, but dangerous cataracts • Lacked resources- tended to trade • Old, Middle, and New Kingdoms • Divine Kingship -pharaohs • Mummification -pyramids- Valley of Kings • Politically centered- bureaucracy for ruling- causes tension • Polythiestic religions –Huge temples • Afterlife • 3 social classes –little to no slavery • Women were subjugated • 2 writing systems • Knowledge of chemistry and anatomy, mathematics, astronomy, calendar making, irrigation, engineering and architecture, and transportation technology.

  13. The Indus Valley Civilization • India/Pakistan • Harappa and Mohenjo-daro • Un-deciphered language

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