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Ap world history Summer work assignment

! It is your responsibility to check out a textbook for AP World History from the Library before summer. o The first two chapters of the textbook will also be available on our class website.

! Read and complete reading notes on Chapter 1 and Chapter 2 of your textbook.

o Your handwritten notes may be completed in either “outline-style” or “Cornell-style.” o Instructions and examples on these note-taking styles can be found on our class webpage

under the “AP World Summer Work” tab at wghshistory.weebly.com. o Your notes should include a SPICE reflection at the end. Please refer to the “AP World History

Reading Notes Must-Haves” handout you received with this packet for direction.

! Complete and study this Summer Work Packet. Extra copies of this packet will be posted online at wghshistory.weebly.com.

! Your notes and summer work packet will be collected during the first week of school. You can expect to be quizzed on the vocabulary, maps, and chapters 1 and 2 during the first 2 weeks of school. Please come prepared.

! Add the class Quizlet. Create a Quizlet account and search “Bielefeld & Blair APWH” under classes.

You will need to request to join the class to have access to the flashcards.

! Suggested reading: o The History of the World in 6 Glasses, by Tom Standage o Salt: A World History, by Mark Kurlansky o This Fleeting World: A Short History of Humanity, by David Christian o Guns, Germs, & Steel, by Jared Diamond

! Suggested Documentaries:

o National Geographic: Guns, Germs, and Steel. Many of you watched this series in your World Geography class, but if you did not or do you do not remember this series, it would be advantageous to watch it again. The links to this three-part documentary are on our class website under the “Helpful AP World Resources” tab.

You are expected to complete all of the summer work assignment, and extensions will only be granted if you enroll in WGHS after August 1, 2018. If you have questions over the summer, please send an email to [email protected] and [email protected]. Please send the email to both of us and at least one of us will respond. While we intend to regularly check email over the summer, responses may not always be prompt. Website: wghshistory.weebly.com Password: RAMS

Name: Period:

Bielefeld/Blair APWH

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AP World History Reading Notes Must-Haves 1. Cornell or Outline Format

• Must address all key concepts, subordinate concepts, main ideas of paragraph, and supporting details.

• Have a hierarchal structure (see your How To: Textbook Notes handout)

2. Important Terms • Important terms (vocabulary, key figures, key events, etc.) must be present and explained

(significance) in your notes. • If anything is not in your notes, be sure to include an explanation and significance at the end of

your notes

3. Highlighting • Color-code or highlight your notes (the actual notes and the themes in the reflection) • Example: Main Ideas (Yellow), Key Figures/Events (Blue), Vocabulary (Orange)

4. Thesis Statement

• When you’re done reading the chapter. Write a thesis statement to reflect the chapter. Write this thesis at the top of your notes. Save a few blank lines at the start of your outline for this.

5. SPICE Reflection Paragraph (Write the SPICE theme in parenthesis and highlight it)

• Step 1: Read ENTIRE chapter thoroughly • Step 2: Go back and identify one strong example for each SPICE theme.

o Suggestions: as you are reading, use a post it note to mark where you notice examples of a theme. When you go back, check your post it notes and decide which examples are strongest.

• Step 3: Look at your examples and ask yourself: o What led to this example? o Why is this important? o How did it effect civilization?

• Step 4: Once you have answered all the “whys” find evidence that supports your answer. o You have to prove what you are saying is true with evidence.

• Step 5: Start writing o Take your examples and evidence and organize it in a way that makes sense. o Make sure it flows. Use proper transitions. o Make sure there is no “fluff” (ex. “In this chapter…”)

• Reminders: o Quality over quantity! Just make sure you have all SPICE themes and that they have been

thoroughly analyzed. Do not borrow or plagiarize the text. o Do not summarize. This is a reflection!

•  Evidence • 

What led to example

•  Details • 

Example •  Evidence • 

Effect it had on civilization

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Vocabulary The AP World History class and textbook are college-level. As a result, history-specific vocabulary will be used in class, and you are expected to understand and use the following terms. Some terms are general and some are specific. You should be able to identify each term’s definition, use each term in a sentence, and/or define/describe each term. Many of these terms are probably already very familiar to you. If any of the following terms are unfamiliar, use dictionary resources.

Acculturation Agrarian Apartheid Arable Autocracy Buddhism Bureaucracy Capitalism Caravan Cash crop Caste System Censorship Christianity Climate Colony Commodity Communism Conservative Credit Cultural convergence Cultural diffusion Cultural hearth Currency Daoism Deforestation Deity Democracy Demography Desalinization Desertification Developing nation Dictatorship Diffusion Dissent Diverse Domestic Dynasty Ecosystem

Egalitarian Emancipation Emigration Epidemic Ethnicity Feudalism Fossil fuel Fundamentalism Genocide Globalization Guild Hemisphere Hierarchy Human Rights Immigration Imperialism Indigenous Industrialized nation Infant mortality Irrigation Islam Jainism Judaism Labor Liberal Literacy Matrilineal Media Mestizo Missionary Monarchy Monogamy Monotheism Nation-state Nationalism Natural resources Nobility Nomadic

Oligarchy Pagan Parliament Patriarchy Patrilineal Peasant Polygamy Polytheism Population density Propaganda Pull factors Push factors Radical Raw materials Reform Reincarnation Republic Revolution Rural Secular Segregation Socialism Sovereignty Standard of living Subsistence farming Suffrage Syncretism Terrorism Theocracy Totalitarianism Tributary United Nations Urban BCE and CE

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Crash Course World History Videos—John Green You can access the videos on YouTube or at wghshistory.weebly.com

The Agricultural Revolution

1. How do we have evidence of hunter-gatherers (H-G) and their lifestyle?

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

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

4. What are the advantages and disadvantages of agriculture?

5. What impact does agriculture have on the environment?

6. What advantages do you think Eurasia had with its zoological set of animals compared to the Americas?

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

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

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

2. How does John Green define what constitutes a civilization? How does this compare to other definitions of civilization you have learned?

3. Where did the earliest civilizations emerge? Why there?

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

there?

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

6. What appears to be unique about the Indus Valley Civilization, based on your knowledge of other civilizations?

Ancient Mesopotamia

1. John Green begins by discussing one of the most obvious consequences of agriculture…what is it and what are the most immediate consequences for those societies?

2. How does Mesopotamia compare with the Indus River Valley? Identify both similarities and differences. Think of why a specific similarity and a specific difference might exist.

3. Cuneiform: What three points does John Green make about the advent of writing? a.

b.

c.

4. What was Hammurabi’s most significant contribution?

5. What are the challenges of empire what is the usual result? Or to put in math terms: __________________________ + _________________________ = ___________________________

Ancient Egypt

1. What point is John Green making about the different “lenses” we use when we study history?

2. How did the Nile River shape the worldview of the Egyptians? How did this compare to the Mesopotamian worldview?

6 3. How was Egyptian civilization different from most other river valley civilizations? Why do you think

this was?

4. What does the construction of the pyramids represent?

5. What was the motivation for building the pyramids?

6. What protected Egypt from outside peoples? How were the Egyptians eventually conquered by Semitic peoples of the Middle East?

The Bronze Age

1. What do textbooks normally do to the river valley civilizations?

2. What do Egypt, Mesopotamia, Anatolia, etc. have in common? a. TRADE: What did underwater archaeologists find on the shipwreck?

b. WAR: What was one of the main drivers of economic growth?

c. FAMILY: How did these civilizations share familial relationships?

3. What are we really talking about when we use the word “civilization”?

4. What happened around 1200 BCE to Mycenaeans, Minoans, Hittites, and (partially) Egypt?

a. What caused this?

b. What is the theory of archaeoseismologists?

5. How does interdependence in the Bronze Age help lead to its downfall?

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AP World History “Must Know” Geography Map

ASIA

East Asia: China Japan Republic of China (Taiwan) South Korea North Korea

SE Asia: Cambodia Indonesia Malaysia Myanmar (Burma) Philippines Singapore Thailand Vietnam

South Asia: Afghanistan Bangladesh India Pakistan

SW Asia: (Mid-East)

Iran Iraq Israel Jordan Saudi Arabia Syria Turkey

Central Asia: Kazakhstan

AFRICA North Africa: Algeria Egypt

Libya Morocco East Africa: Ethiopia Kenya

Madagascar Somalia Sudan Tanzania

West Africa: Chad Cote D’Ivoire Mali Mauritania Niger Nigeria

Equatorial Africa:

Cameroon Central Af. Republic Rwanda Uganda Sudan Democratic Rep. of Congo (Zaire)

Southern Africa:

Angola Botswana South Africa Zambia Democratic Rep. of Congo (Zaire) Zimbabwe

AMERICAS

Central: Mexico Nicaragua Panama

Caribbean: Bahamas Cuba Jamaica Puerto Rico

South: Argentina Brazil Colombia Ecuador Peru Venezuela

EUROPE West: England/ Great Britain/UK

France Germany Portugal Spain

East: Hungary Poland Romania Russia Ukraine Yugoslavia

Northern: Finland Norway Sweden

Southern: Italy Greece

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East Asia: China Japan

Republic of China (Taiwan) North Korea South Korea

SE Asia: Cambodia Indonesia Malaysia Myanmar (Burma) Philippines Singapore Thailand Vietnam

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EUROPE

West: England/ Great Britain/UK France Germany Portugal Spain

East: Hungary Poland Romania Russia Ukraine Yugoslavia

Northern: Finland Norway Sweden

Southern: Italy Greece

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AFRICA North Africa: Algeria Egypt

Libya Morocco East Africa: Ethiopia Kenya

Madagascar Somalia Sudan Tanzania

West Africa: Chad Cote D’Ivoire Mali Mauritania Niger Nigeria

Equatorial Africa:

Cameroon Central Af. Republic Rwanda Uganda Sudan Democratic Rep. of Congo (Zaire)

Southern Africa:

Angola Botswana South Africa Zambia Democratic Rep. of Congo (Zaire) Zimbabwe

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South Asia: Afghanistan

Bangladesh India Pakistan

SW Asia: (Mid-East)

Iran Iraq Israel Jordan Saudi Arabia Syria Turkey

Central Asia:

Kazakhstan

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AMERICAS Central: Mexico Nicaragua

Panama Caribbean: Bahamas Cuba

Jamaica Puerto Rico South: Argentina Brazil Colombia Ecuador Peru Venezuela

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Must Know Landforms and Waterways Alps Amazon River Andes Mountains Arabian Desert Arctic Ocean Baltic Sea Bay of Bengal Black Sea Caribbean Sea Caspian Sea Caucasus Mountains Congo River

English Channel Gobi Dessert Great Lakes Gulf of Mexico Himalayas Hindu Kush Indian Ocean Kalahari Desert Lake Victoria Mediterranean Sea Mississippi River North Sea

Pacific Ocean Persian Gulf Red Sea Rockies Sahara Desert Sea of Japan South China Sea The Nile Ural Mountains Yangtze River Yellow River

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