World History Advanced Placement – Alair, Rosemont High School

WHAP Summer Assignment 2017

  • Due August 31stst beginning of class, Turn in ALL work + page 2 “checklist” on top
  • CHECK OUT A TEXTBOOK from the school library for next year by 6/15
  • Assignment Available online:Google Sites “AlairWorld”
  • Contact info:

Introduction:Welcome to World History AP (WHAP!) You will be taking your AP Exam on Thursday, May 17, 2018. This is your first AP course and your first AP exam. The purpose of our summer assignment is to get a head start on the year, because we have to get through 23 chapters and 10,000 years before May.

We are not just learning about history- we are learning how to learn: good study habits/systems/processes, test taking strategies, time management, prioritizing (school, home, social life, sports, activities), using academic resources, goal setting, historical thinking skills, critical thinking skills, and character development- persistence, resilience, patience, self-discipline, a positive attitude, and grit. This is a college course, with a college textbook, college level tests, and rigorous college curriculum. I will provide the structure and guidance you need to be successful, but you are in control of everything else. Just like in college, you determine the mood, `tone, pace, and success of your studies. The AP Exam measures your results. We are a team and I am your coach. We are the Rosemont High School WHAP Brigade!

Please go to the College Board Website (apcentral.collegeboard.com)and start learning about this course and the exam on your own. You can find the AP World History Course Exam and Descriptionon the website- this outlines the content for the course and the exam. There are also many study tools/apps/review books online andin hard copyavailable for sale.Please purchase a copy of Strive for a 5, an exam review companion book for our textbook,Ways of the World for AP®3rd Edition, byRobert W. Strayer and Kit Wainer. It is around $35.00. Available on Amazon.com Make sure you purchase THE 3RD EDITION. It is red.

World History AP Course(from College Board Website)

The AP World History course focuses on developing students' understanding of world history from approximately 8000 B.C.E. to the present. The course has students investigate the content of world history for significant events, individuals, developments, and processes in six historical periods, and develop and use the same thinking skills and methods (analyzing primary and secondary sources, making historical comparisons, chronological reasoning, and argumentation) employed by historians when they study the past. The course also provides five themes (interaction between humans and the environment; development and interaction of cultures; state building, expansion, and conflict; creation, expansion, and interaction of economic systems; and development and transformation of social structures) that students explore throughout the course in order to make connections among historical developments in different times and places encompassing the five major geographical regions of the globe: Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe, and Oceania.

Historical Periodization of WHAP course: 8000 BCE (Before Common Era) - present

Period 1: Technological and Environmental Transformations (8,000 to 600 BCE)

Period 2: Organization and Reorganization of Human Societies (600 BCE – 600 CE)

Period 3: Regional and Trans-regional Interactions (600 CE – 1450 CE)

Period 4: Global Interactions (1450 – 1750 CE)

Period 5: Industrialization and Global Integration (1750 – 1900 CE)

Period 6: Accelerating Global Change and Realignments (1900 – Present)

Name ______

Date ______Period ______

WHAP 2017 Summer Assignment/Checklist:

Due in class August 31stst

Staple together in order:

  • Front Page=This Checklist- turn in
  • Part 1 textbook, Part 2 videos, Part 3 maps

PART 1:Textbook-use college-ruled paper

  1. Read p. xxix-xxxix To the Student
  2. Read p. WWE 1-4 Working with Evidence
  3. Read p. HTS 1-20 Historical Thinking Skills
  4. Read p. PRO 1-9 Prologue
  5. Complete Review, p. PRO 9, What’s the significance, Big Picture Questions

(On lined paper, in your own handwriting for all assignments-don’t type)

  1. Read Chapter 1: First Things First- Beginnings in History, p. 3-57
  2. Complete Chapter Review, p. 47
  3. What’s the Significance? Write the definition plus why it is significant
  4. Complete Big Picture Questions, #1-5
  5. Read “Working with Evidence,” Stories of the Australian Dreamtime,” p. 49-57
  6. Answer “Source” questions 1.1 p. 50, 1.2 p. 52, 1.3 p. 53, 1.4 p. 55 (Red squares)
  7. Answer “Doing History” questions #1-5, p. 57
  1. Read Chapter 2: Frist Civilizations, p. 59-95
  2. Complete Chapter Review, p. 90
  1. What’s the Significance? Write definitions plus why it is significant
  2. Complete Big Picture Questions, #1-5
  3. Read Working with Evidence- Indus Valley Civilizations, p. 91-95
  1. Answer “Source” questions 2.1 p. 92, 2.2 p. 94, 2.3 p. 95 (Red squares)
  2. Answer “Doing History” questions #1-4, p. 95

PART 2: YouTube Videos

  1. Watch Crash Course Episode 1, The Agricultural Revolution

____Answer handout questions

  1. Watch Guns, Germs, and Steel, Episode I, Out of Eden

_____Answer handout questions

  1. Watch Crash Course Episode 2, The Indus Valley Civilization

_____Answer handout questions

  1. Watch Mesopotamia: Return to Eden.

_____Answer handout questions

PART 3 Maps: Label 5 maps

MapsChecklist : ___1. Asia ___2. Middle East ___3. Africa ___4. Americas ___5. Europe

Name______

Video Handout #1Date______

YouTube:Period ______

Video Questions Crash Course #1

Agricultural Revolution

Early vegetarians returning home from the kill.

Directions:

1. Read the Key Concepts.

2. Preview the video viewing questions.

3. Watch Crash Course #1, The Agricultural Revolution, once without taking notes, using the closed captioning option will help.

4. Watch the video again and answer the video viewing questions.

1. How do we have evidence of Hunter-Gatherers and their lifeways? (New word

that means “ways of life,” do not use “lifestyle”).

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2. What do most early civilizations have in common?

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3. What advantages did H-G have over early agriculturalists?

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(Crash Course Video #1, Ag. Rev., p. 2)

4. Where did agriculture emerge? Which food crops are associated with which areas?

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5. What are the advantages and disadvantages of agriculture?

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6. What impact does agriculture have on the environment?

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7. What were the advantages and disadvantages to Pastoralism (being a herder)?

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8. Welcome to the MONGOLS! We love talking about the Mongols! We are…wait for it… The Mongols (free answer)

9. What advantages do you think that Eurasia had with its zoological set of animals compared to the

Americas?

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10. Evaluate John Green’s thesis that “the greatest evolutionary advantage an animal species can have

is being useful to humans.” Agree/disagree, why?

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11. If H-G had a “better and healthier” lifeway, why did people become agriculturalists?

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12. What point do you think John Green is making about the use of the word “savage”?

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13. What do historians say are the drawbacks to complex civilizations and agriculture?

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14. What other impacts do complex civilizations have on the environment?

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15. What does John Green say about “revolutions”?

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Name______

Video Handout #2Date______

YouTube:Period ______

Guns, Germs, and Steel

Episode One: “Out of Eden”

Directions: Answer these questions to your best ability while viewing, pause the video as needed so that you can answer completely. You do not need to use complete sentences, but please write in ink.

1. Who is Jared Diamond and what does he study? ______

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2. What was Yali’s question? How was cargo viewed by Guineans? ______

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3. What have all great civilizations had in common? ______

4. What method of acquiring food is more reliable than hunting? Who typically performed this work?

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5. What were the two types of grains believed to have been stored in the first granary? What new kind of food production was being developed? ______

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6. How did agriculture forever change the plants themselves? ______

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7. Where was farming developed independently and what was grown? ______

8. What became the other steady source of food about 9000 years ago? Why was it so important?

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9. What are the best animals to farm? What qualities should they have? ______

10. Where were the suitable animals found? Which region had the most?

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11. Why didn’t certain technologies develop in some parts of the world? How was this related to food supply?

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(Guns, Germs, & Steel Video, p. 2)

12. What happened to the “head start” of the Middle East? What was the region’s greatest flaw?

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13. How does latitude impact the spread of ideas and methods of food production?

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14. What is Diamond’s answer to Yali’s question?

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After the Film:

15. Do you agree or disagree with Jared Diamond’s theories? Why?

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16. How has geography been important in shaping history?

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Name______

Video Handout #3Date______

YouTube:Period ______

Video Questions Crash Course #2

Indus Valley Civilization

Directions:

1. Read the Key Concepts.

2. Preview the video viewing questions.

3. Watch Crash Course #2 Indus Valley Civilization, once without taking notes, using the closed captioning option will help.

4. Watch the video again and answer the video viewing questions.

  1. How is the concept of “civilization” a useful construct? When is it not a useful construct?

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  1. How does John Green define what constitutes a civilization? How does this compare to other definitions of civilization you have read about in your textbook?______

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  1. Where did the earliest civilizations emerge? Why there?______

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(Crash Course #2, Indus Valley, p. 2)

  1. Why was the Indus Valley a prime location? How did the environment impact the people who lived there?

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  1. How do we know, what we know, about the Indus Valley Civilization?

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6. How did they use technology to interact with the environment to improve their quality of life?

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7. What evidence exists of long-distance trade and with whom?

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8. What appears to be unique about the IVC (Indus Valley Civilization)?

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9. How have historiansarrived at this conclusion? ______

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10. What are the three theories historians have about the fate of the Indus Valley Civilization?

a. ______

b. ______

c ______

11. As historians, what evidence might one look for to support or disprove these three theories? (Refer to the theories in #9)

a.______

b.______

c.______

Name______

Video Handout #4Date______

Period ______

YouTube:

Mesopotamia: Return to Eden

Directions: Answer these questions to the best of your ability while viewing, pause the video as needed so that you can answer completely. You do not need to use complete sentences, but please write in ink.

  1. Where is the Garden of Eden believed to have been located?______
  2. What were the three great ancient civilizations located in the Mesopotamian region? ______

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  1. What modern day country is the ancient site of Mesopotamia located?______
  2. What did the Greeks call it? ______
  3. What major discovery was made in Israel in 1947? ______
  4. From what two perspectives is the Bible read? ______
  5. What was the significance of the Moabite Stone?______

8. Where and why was the Bible first written down?______

9. What was Babylon’s most impressive legacy? ______

10. 1200 years before the Babylonian Captivity, Hammurabi codified the laws of Babylon.What subsequent set of laws did the Code of Hammurabi influence? ______

ASSYRIA 700 B.C.E.

11. How were the Assyrians characterized by their contemporaries? ______

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12. What major discovery was made in 1852 and where was it discovered? ______

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13. What was the greatest discovery made there? ______

14. What rights did women have in ancient Assyria? ______

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15. Why was the discovery of Nimrud Palace so significant? ______

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16. How did King Hezekiah protect Jerusalem from Assyrian attack? ______

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17. Where do historians find accounts of this great battle? ______

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(Mesopotamia Video p. 2)

SUMER 3000 B.C.E.

18. What biblical story comes from the ancient civilization of Sumer? ______

19. In what two works is this story related? ______

20. What contributions to civilization originated in Sumer? (list several) ______

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21. Describe the most remarkable discovery made at the ancient site of Ur.

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22. What modern day location may have been the ancient site of paradise?______

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East Asia: / ChinaJapan
Republic of China (Taiwan)
NorthKorea South Korea / SE Asia: / CambodiaIndonesia
Malaysia Myanmar(Burma) PhilippinesSingapore
ThailandVietnam

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South Asia: / Afghanistan
Pakistan
India (just the northwest edge) / SW Asia
(Mid-East) / Iran IraqIsrael Jordan Saudi Arabia
Syria Turkey
Central Asia / Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan (just the edge)

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Africa
North Africa: / AlgeriaEgypt
LibyaMorocco / East Africa: / Ethiopia Madagascar Sudan
South Sudan / Kenya Somalia
Tanzania
West Africa: / Chad CôteD’Ivoire
Mali Mauritania
Niger Nigeria / Equatorial
Africa: / Cameroon Cent. Afr. Rep. Rwanda
Uganda Dem Rep of Congo(Zaire)
Southern Africa: / AngolaBotswana
Dem Rep of Congo (Zaire) / South Africa Zambia / Zimbabwe

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Americas
Central / Mexico Panama / Nicaragua / Caribbean / Bahamas Jamaica / Cuba Puerto Rico
South / Argentina / Brazil / Colombia / Ecuador / Peru / Venezuela

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Europe
West / England/Great Britain/U.K.
FranceGermany
PortugalSpain / East / Hungary Romania Ukraine / Poland Russia Yugoslavia
Northern / Finland Sweden / Norway / Southern / Italy / Greece

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