9/5/2018

WELCOME TO AP WORLD HISTORY

AND CULTURES!

With Ms. Dineen

DO NOW

• Grab one of each of the handouts on the front table (3 total)

• Grab a textbook and a review book

• Have a seat wherever you would like for today.

• Please fill out your survey.

CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS

When Columbus first set foot on Hispaniola, he encountered a population of native people called the Taino. A friendly group, they willingly traded jewelry, animals, and supplies with the sailors. The natives were soon forced into slavery, and punished with the loss of a limb or death if they did not collect enough gold. Between the European’s brutal treatment and their infectious diseases, within decades, the Taino population was decimated.

ADOLF HITLER

German politician and leader of the Nazi Party who became the dictator of Germany. Responsible for WWII. Responsible for the Holocaust that caused the deaths of 11,000,000 people, including 6,000,000 Jews, representing two-thirds of the Jewish population in Europe. Deaths took place in concentration and extermination camps and through mass executions. Other persecuted groups included Poles, communists, homosexuals, Jehovah's Witnesses and trade unionists, among others.

GENGHIS KHAN

Mongolian conqueror who was responsible for killing 40 million people, during the longer-lasting ones like the Mongol invasion… there was enough time for the forests to re-grow and absorb significant amounts of carbon, conquered 12 million miles of territory. Interesting fact he died falling of his horse.

OSAMA BIN LADEN

leader of Al-Qaida and terrorist directly responsible for the attacks on September 11, 2001 that killed 2,996 (2,606 in World Trade Center, 265 on four airplanes, and 125 in the Pentagon) and injured more than 6,000.

MAO ZEDONG

Mao was a Chinese communist leader and founder of the People's Republic of China. He was responsible for the disastrous policies of the 'Great Leap Forward' and the 'Cultural Revolution’. These initiatives resulted in a massive decline in agricultural output, famine, the establishment of child armies, and the deaths of millions.

PAUL RUSESABAGINA

interim manager of the both two hotels during the four, long months of the Rwandan genocide. He was instrumental in helping save thousands of Hutu and Tutsi lives (1,268 to be precise), and became a hero who did all he could to prevent the loss of lives. He used persuasion and tact to lure the would-be killers away by offering them liquor and convincing them to leave. The hotels were classy and upscale but Rusesabagina used it as a form of shelter to many.

SIDDHARTHA GAUTAMA

Siddhartha Gautama (also known as the Buddha was the leader and founder of a sect of wanderer ascetics (Sramanas), one of many sects which existed at that time all over India. This sect came to be known as Sangha, to distinguish it from other similar communities. The teachings of Siddhartha Gautama are considered the core of Buddhism: after his death, the community he founded slowly evolved into a religious-like movement which was finally established as a state religion in India by the time of Emperor Ashoka, during the 3rd century BCE.

HARVEY MILK

Gay rights activist and community leader who made history as the first openly gay person to be elected to a public office (San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors) in 1977. He worked to gain equal rights for the LGBT community. He was tragically shot and killed the following year.

RAPHAEL LEMKIN

devoted much of his life to a single goal: making the world understand and recognize a crime so horrific that there was not even a word for it. By coining the word "genocide" and drafting the United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, Lemkin's actions have influenced the way we are able to respond to acts of genocide.

BEN FERENCZ

former prosecutor during the Nuremberg Trials who has dedicated his life to preventing mass atrocities by stopping war.

AROUND THE WORLD

Step 1: Circle Up!Step 2: We will take turns tossing the ball to each person in the circle in a random order. The continent or ocean on which your right thumb lands will determine the question you answer:• Pacific Ocean: Tell us your favorite place you’ve ever visited and why• Atlantic Ocean: Where is the furthest from Princeton you have ever been, and what did you

do there?• Australia: What would you do with a million dollars?• Arctic: Describe your perfect dinner• Antarctic: Would you rather be indoors 100% of the time or outdoors 100% of the time?

Why?• Either of the Americas: Would you rather live in the middle of nowhere or a bustling city?

Why?• Africa: What is the last movie you saw? Did you like it?• Eurasia: What is one thing you’re good at?

Step 3: Group yourselves into blobs of 3-5 based on things you noticed that you had in common!

9/6/2018

DO NOW

• Take one of each of the handouts

• Do your best to label the map on the Unit 1 Quiz Review Sheet

• Join remind if you have not yet

MAPS!

• Grab a unit packet from the front of the room

• Find your seat

• Study these maps on p. 2 of your Unit 1 Packets and respond to question #1, listed below the maps.

Peter’s Mercator

GUNS, GERMS, AND STEEL

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9q1eRmJLd0

DO NOW

• Grab a weekly assignment and check it out!!

• Note:

• Political

• Economic

• Religious

• Social

• Interactions

• Arts and Technology• Nature

PEOPLING OF THE EARTH

• http://www.bradshawfoundation.com/journey/

SPICE

• Development and Transformation of Social Structures

• State Building, Expansion, and Conflict (Political)

• Interaction Between Humans and their Environment

• Development and Interaction of Cultures (Cultural Diffusion)

• Creation, Expansion, and Interaction of Economic Systems

ROLES

Roles will change every day, depending on the lesson. The goal of using roles during group work is to ensure that no perspective, aspect of society, or specific task is overlooked. For the entirety of class today, your roles will be:

• Politician

• Economist

• Anthropologist

• Geographer

WHAT DOES MY ROLE MEAN?

• Politician: think about political reasons for this change/continuity

• Economist: think about economic reasons for the change/continuity

• Anthropologist: think about cultural reasons for the change/continuity

• Geographer: think about geographic reasons for the change/continuity

• After discussion, only one reason per change and continuity will be selected to be written in your organizers

9/11/2018

DO NOW

List one way in which your day-to day is affected by our geography on an index card.

DO NOW

Engineer a design for effective farming in one of the following environments on your index card (in front).

9/14/2018

DO NOW

On your index card, recount for us the story of Noah’s arc.

"The uproar of mankind is intolerable and sleep is no longer possible by reason of the babel." So the gods agreed to exterminate mankind.

… ‘For six days and six nights the winds blew, torrent and tempest and flood overwhelmed the world, tempest and flood raged together like warring hosts …

… ‘When Enlil had come, when he saw the boat, he was wrath and swelled with anger at the gods, the host of heaven, "Has any of these mortals escaped? Not one was to have survived the destruction." Then the god of the wells and canals Ninurta opened his mouth and said to the warrior Enlil, "Who is there of the gods that can devise without Ea? It is Ea alone who knows all things." Then Ea opened his mouth and spoke to warrior Enlil, "Wisest of gods, hero Enlil, how could you so senselessly bring down the flood?

Lay upon the sinner his sin,Lay upon the transgressor his transgression,

Punish him a little when he breaks loose,Do not drive him too hard or he perishes,Would that a lion had ravaged mankindRather than the f loud,Would that a wolf had ravaged mankind

Rather than the flood,Would that famine had wasted the world …

-From the Epic of Gilgamesh

8 BASIC ELEMENTS OF COMPLEX SOCIETIES

1. Surplus agriculture

2. Job specialization and social stratification

3. Monumental structures

4. Organized belief systems

5. Centralized government

6. Technological advancements

7. Cultural Traditions

8. Writing System/ System of Records