A. P. World History Thematic Review Book
Rationale: The AP Exam assesses students’ ability to use factual information to good purpose. Working with themes enables students to make connections between specific information and broader concepts, helping them to understand how the issues play out over extended periods of time. Thus, particular pieces of information become pillars that support a thesis and reflect an understanding of the flow of history, rather than simply a list of facts to be memorized. Additionally, students recognize that thematic content is interrelated both within and between units of study, emphasizing the dynamic nature of history. They also learn that, in many cases, specific information can be used to support theses dealing with more than one theme.
Directions: Students will compile, throughout the year, a Thematic Review Book. This book should be well organized and utilized for review later in the year. This assignment will be submitted in class as well as on www.turnitin.com
· Part I: AP World History Curriculum Framework Vocabulary (30 points formative)
o Students need to define and discuss the significance of each Vocabulary term for the unit.
o This grade carries its own category in the grade book
· Part II: AP Themes (30 points summative)
· A—Thematic Examples (must use all 5 Themes and 3 subtopics and have at least 25 examples)
o For each theme/subtopic, students must provide specific information relevant to each theme.
o Example:
- Theme 1: Interaction Between Humans and the Environment [patterns of settlement]
· River Valleys such as the Indus River Valley, Nile River Valley
o (Students should/could use unit terms for examples)
o Students may choose to expand upon examples which will assist in their understanding of the concepts/history and retention
· B— AP World History Concepts
o Change and Continuity over time
o Multiple Perspectives
o Cross Regional Themes
o Local – Global
o Compare and Contrast
o Multiple Causation
o Linkage over time and place
· The next requirement is that students must consider the above listed concepts and consider relationships across units of study as well.
· Choose a minimum of three concepts and write two paragraphs for each describing how it manifested within the time period being studied.
· C—Comparison and Analysis.
· Using the following list, students must select a minimum of two topics from below and write a one page comparative essay. The format should be as follows:
o Paragraph 1: Introduction with thesis. (highlight background info YELLOW, thesis statement BLUE.
o Paragraph 2: Body paragraph with similarities or differences. Highlight main idea/topic sentence BLUE. Highlight historical evidence GREEN. Highlight Analysis GREY.
o Paragraph 3: Body paragraph with similarities or differences. Highlight main idea/topic sentence BLUE. Highlight historical evidence GREEN. Highlight Analysis GREY.
o Conclusion: Explain the impact of these similarities or differences.
NOTE: THE COLOR OF YOUR HIGHLIGHTING is up to you. YOU MUST PROVIDE A KEY
Themes of AP World History
1. Interaction b/t humans and the environment
Demography and Disease
Migration
Patterns of Settlement
Technology
2. Development and interaction of cultures
Religions
Belief Systems, philosophies, and ideologies
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, trans regional, 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
Comparison and Analysis Topics
Origins – 600 CE (Covers two time periods)
1. Compare major religious and philosophical systems including some underlying similarities in cementing a social hierarchy, e.g., Hinduism contrasted with Confucianism.
2. Compare the role of women in different belief systems – Buddhism, Christianity, Confucianism, and Hinduism
3. Compare collapse of empires in Western Europe than it was in the eastern Mediterranean or in China. Understand how and why the collapse of empire was more severe in West versus East.
4. Describe interregional trading systems e.g. Indian Ocean trade (Compare to another system)
5. Compare the caste system to other systems of social inequality devised by early and Classical civilizations, including slavery.
6. Compare the societies: Civilizations versus pastoral/nomadic societies.
7. Compare the development of traditions and institutions in major civilizations, e.g., Indian, Chinese, and Greek
8. Compare the political and social structures of two early civilizations, using any two of the following: Mesopotamia, Egypt, Indus Valley, Shang dynasty, and Mesoamerica and the Andean South America
600 CE – 1450CE
9. Compare the role and function of cities in major societies
10. Compare and analyze gender systems and changes, such as the effects of Islam and one other civilization/structure.
11. Compare and Contrast interactions and characteristics in the time period between Jews, Christians, and Muslims
12. Compare the developments in political and social institutions in both eastern and western Europe.
13. Compare Japanese and European feudalism
14. Compare European and sub-Saharan African contacts with the Islamic world.
15. Analyze the Chinese Meritocracy (Civil Service Exam) to a traditional aristocracy.
1450 CE – 1750CE
16. Compare colonial administrations
17. Compare coercive labor systems: slavery and other coercive labor systems in the Americas
18. Compare and Contrast the development of empires (i.e., general empire building in Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Americas)
19. Analyze imperial systems: a European seaborne empire compared with a land-based Asian empire
20. Compare, contrast, and analyze Russia’s interaction with two of the following (Ottoman Empire, China, western Europe,& eastern Europe)
21. Compare Mesoamerican and Andean systems of economic exchange.
1750 - 1900
22. Compare the causes and early phases of the Industrial Revolution in Western Europe and Japan.
23. Compare the Haitian and French Revolutions
24. Compare reaction to foreign interference in the Ottoman Empire, China, India, Southeast Asia, and Japan.
25. Compare nationalism in the following pairs: China and Japan, Egypt and Italy, Pan Africanism and the Indian National Congress
26. Compare, contrast, and explain forms of Western intervention in Latin America, Africa, and Southeast Asia
27. Compare roles & conditions of elite women in Latin America w/ those in Western Europe before 1850.
1900 – Present
28. Compare patterns and results of decolonization in Africa and India
29. Pick 2 revolutions (Russian, Chinese, Cuban, Iranian) & compare effects on roles of women
30. Compare the effects of the World Wars on areas outside of Europe
31. Compare legacies of colonialism and patterns of economic development in two of three areas (Africa, Asia, and Latin America)
32. Analyze nationalist ideologies and movements in contrasting European and colonial environments
33. Compare the different types of independence struggles
34. Examine global interactions in cultural arenas (e.g., reggae, art, sports)
35. Analyze the global effects of the Western Consumer Society
36. Compare the major forms of twentieth-century warfare
37. Assess different proposals (or models) for economic growth in the developing world and the social and political consequences.