AP World History Summer Assignment 2014

Dear APWH students,

I am looking forward to getting to know you this year as we share the fascinating voyage of world history. Please take some time this summer to prepare yourself for our year-long adventure by completing the assignments below.

A commitment to reading and a knowledge of geography are important for advanced placement history, so let’s start by learning about how the earliest people lived and by constructing maps you will use throughout the year.

This is your education. I am happy to help you make the most of it.Mrs. ParejaJanet.pareja@signature.edu

1. Make World Maps of both hemispheres Anytime over the summer, use a world atlas online or from the library to color in and mark your maps (eastern and western hemisphere) per directions on the handout below (also available at slideshare.net/janet.pareja ) Follow the directions below, remembering to mark locations with numbers in black ink. Your completed map will be collected on the first day of school, and there will be a quiz over the information on your map during the second week of school.

Directions for MapsPlease follow directions. Label both maps - eastern and western hemispheres- using colored pencils (not magic marker or crayon) to mark just the numbers of the locations on the list below. Do not write the names of the locations, on your map - just record the numbers that correspond to the correct names.

- Please color the listed bodies of water BLUE, and mark the number of their names in BLACK INK. - Please color the mountains BROWN, & mark the number in BLACK INK. - Please color deserts ORANGE/YELLOW and mark the numbers in BLACK INK. - Please color grasslands GREEN, labeling them with the appropriate number in BLACK INK. - You may color the rest of the land yellow-green and all water blue if you like.

Maps will be graded for: 1) following the directions on this sheet 2) correctness & completion of your maps 3) ease of use/legibility - so please create a neat and thorough map you can use throughout the year.

2. Read your new text book and take notes on pages li-33. After you pick up your book at the Sig Book Store (August 5-6), read the following pages in your text, Ways of the World, by Robert W. Strayer. Take notes over JUST the MOST IMPORTANT information in your own handwriting, to turn in on the SECOND day of class, Monday, August 11 or Tuesday August 12. Important: typed notes will not be accepted for a grade. Be ready to discuss Big History in class, including the Questions on pages 32- 33.

Prologue, pp. li-lix First Things First- The Big Picture: Turning Points in Early World History, pp. 3-9 (including time line) Chapter One- First Peoples: Populating the Planet to 10,000 BCE, pp. 10-33.

Geographical Features to place on your Maps:

Rivers Deserts, Grasslands

Bodies of Water Mountains, Highlands

Peninsulas, Islands, Land formations

1. Huang He 20. Sahara 30. Mediterranean 50. Himalaya Mts. 70. Anatolia

2. Yangtze River 21. Thar Desert 31. Red Sea 51. Andes Mts. 71. Greece

3. Indus River 22. Mojave Desert 32. Persian Gulf 52. Rocky Mts. 72. Korean Peninsula

4. Ganges River 23. Gobi Desert 33. Gulf of Mexico 53. Hindu Kush Mts. & Khyber Pass

73. Yucatan Peninsula

5. Mississippi River 24. Kalahari Desert

34. Indian Ocean 54. Ural Mts. 74. Cuba

6. Amazon River 25. Taklimakan Desert

35 Arabian Sea 35 55. Alps Mts. 80. Japan

7. Missouri & Ohio Rivers

26. Chihuahua Desert

36. Bay of Bengal 56. Sierra Madre Mts.

81. Philippines

8. Nile River 27. Asian Steppes 37 Black Sea, 57. Great Rift Valley 82. Hawaiian Islands

9. Tigris & Euphrates Rivers

28. Pampas 38. Caspian Sea 58. Deccan Plateau 83. Polynesia

10. Saint Lawrence Seaway

29. Great Plains of North America

39 A - Bering Sea39 B - Bering Strait

59. Tibetan Plateau 84. Indonesia & Malaysia

11. Mekong River 40. Aegean Sea 60. Mount Fuji 85. Iberian Peninsula

12. Niger River 41. Strait of Gibraltar

61. Mount Kilimanjaro

86. Arabian Peninsula

13. Congo River 62. Mount Everest 90. Cape of Good Hope

63. Mount McKinley 91. “Horn” of Africa

Note: please prepare two maps – one for the Eastern Hemisphere and one for the Western Hemisphere. Both are on slideshare.net/janetpareja

Western Hemispher

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Deserts

Mountains

Grasslands

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