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APWorldHistory–LeuzingerHighSchoolSummerAssignment2017

Greetings future WHAP students! Your summer assignment must be completed and ready to go on the first day of school. Please read all directions carefully.

I. Introductory Vocabulary: our textbook is written at the college level and requires strong reading comprehension skills. Familiarizing yourself with the following list of words will help you with reading our textbook. You do not have to write out definitions or turn the vocab in, but we will have a vocabulary quiz over these words during the first week of school.

1. B.C.E. 2. C.E. 3. abdicate 4. accession 5. aesthetic 6. agrarian 7. amenities 8. anarchy 9. animism 10. antiquity 11. appeasement 12. aristocracy 13. asceticism 14. assimilate 15. authoritarian 16. autocracy 17. barbarism 18. bureaucracy/bureaucrats 19. city-state 20. civic 21. classical 22. colonial 23. commerce 24. communal 25. concubine 26. conscription 27. cosmopolitan 28. coup 29. demography/demographic 30. despot 31. diaspora 32. dissent 33. dissident 34. domestic/domesticate 35. dynasty/dynastic 36. edict

37. egalitarian 38. elite 39. emigrate 40. epic 41. ethnocentric 42. feudalism 43. genocide 44. gentry 45. guild 46. hierarchy 47. hominids 48. homogenous 49. ideology 50. imperial/imperialism 51. indigenous 52. infrastructure 53. lineage 54. linguistic 55. manifest 56. maritime 57. martial 58. matrilineal 59. mercenary 60. monarchy 61. monopoly/monopolize 62. monotheism 63. mystical 64. nation-state 65. neo 66. Neolithic 67. nomadic 68. oligarchy 69. pantheon 70. papal/papacy 71. parliament/parliamentary

system

72. pastoral 73. patriarchal 74. patrilineal 75. patronage 76. peasant 77. pharaoh 78. piety/pious 79. polity 80. polygamy 81. polytheism 82. proselytize 83. provincial 84. regent 85. republic 86. rhetoric/rhetorical 87. sedentary 88. serf 89. Sharia 90. Sinification 91. state 92. steppe 93. stratification 94. Sub-Saharan 95. subordinate 96. succession 97. syncretism 98. textiles 99. theocracy 100. theology 101. totalitarian 102. tributary state 103. tyranny 104. urban/urbanize 105. usurp 106. vernacular


II. Key Concepts: Our curriculum was developed by the College Board and is divided into six periods of world history. Within each period, there are key concepts that guide the course. We would like you to examine the first period of world history and the corresponding key concepts before the official start of the school year. This is the part of the summer assignment you must hand-write and turn in to your teacher the first week of school. We will have a TEST over this material the first week of school.

Period One of AP World History: Technological and Environmental Transformations (c. 8000 BCE. to c. 600 BCE.)

A. Key Concept 1.1 – Big geography and the Peopling of the Earth

Go to this website http://www.bradshawfoundation.com/journey/ and answer the following questions:

1. What is the earliest known archaeological evidence of our ancestral origins in East Africa? 2. What were the four destinations of the first migrating hominids? 3. What was the “First Exit?” 4. What happened to the first exit group? 5. What happened between 90,000 and 85,000 B.C.E.? 6. What are the Gates of Grief? 7. After the second exit, what do you notice about the path of migration? 8. What was the impact of Mt. Toba on “the journey of mankind?” 9. When did people begin to migrate into Australia, Borneo, and New Guinea (parts of the region we call Oceania)? 10. When did people begin moving into Europe, and what made this possible? 11. Around when did people begin migrating into Japan, and from where? 12. Around when – and how – did people get to North America? 13. What happened between 22,000-19,000 B.C.E., and what are “refuges?” 14. What are the “Bradshaw Paintings?” 15. What was the last continent (not including Antarctica) on which people arrived? 16. What made the “dawn of agriculture” possible, and when did this occur?

Next, use the links below to answer questions 17 and 18, as well as the questions in parts B and C.

http://craddockworldhistory.weebly.com/unit-one.html http://www.freeman-pedia.com/foundations-to-600-bce/ http://apworldipedia.com/index.php?title=Key_Concept_1.3_The_Development_and_Interaction_of_Early_Agricultural,_Pastoral_and_Urban_Societies

http://worldhistoryforusall.sdsu.edu/eras/era3.php https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBDA2E52FB1EF80C9 http://history-world.org/mainmenu.htm https://genographic.nationalgeographic.com/development-of-agriculture/

https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/prehistoric-art/neolithic-art/a/the-neolithic-revolution 17. What are the characteristics of the Paleolithic age? 18. What types of advancements and developments did hominids make in the late Paleolithic era?

B. Key Concept 1.2 – The Neolithic Revolution and Early Agricultural Societies

1. What was the Neolithic Revolution, and what caused this huge transformation? What regions of the world experienced Neolithic Revolutions, and when did they take place? 2. What were the main changes caused by the Neolithic Revolution? Make a chart showing the following types of changes:

• social • demographic • environmental • political • economic


3. Study the map below. What were the main crops and animals that were domesticated during the Neolithic Revolution? What differences do you notice between Eurasia and the Americas? (If you have trouble

reading the map, search the title of the map and you should get several images that will help. But, make sure the site you use is reliable!)

Early Spread of Agriculture (c. 10,000 BCE – 1,000 BCE)

C. Key Concept 1.3 – The Development and Interactions of Early Agricultural, Pastoral, and Urban Societies

1. Where were the first four river valley civilizations located, and what did geography have to do with their development?

2. What are the seven key characteristics of civilizations? 3. Locate the following core and foundational civilizations and label them on the map below:

a. Mesopotamia in the Tigris and Euphrates River Valleys b. Egypt in the Nile River Valley c. Mohenjo-Daro and Harappa in the Indus River Valley d. Shang in the Yellow River or Huang He Valley e. Olmecs in Mesoamerica f. Chavin in Andean South America


4. Where did early pastoral societies emerge? Label some regions in which pastoral societies emerged on the map below.

Feel free to print out a larger world map if necessary.

5. What characterized pastoral societies? http://history-world.org/nomads.htm

6. How did pastoral societies interact with early agricultural civilizations? http://history-world.org/nomads.htm


7. Culture played a significant role in unifying early civilizations and states through laws, language, literature, religion, myths, and monumental art. Study the examples of monumental architecture and urban planning in the chart below. You may also need to do some research to answer the accompanying questions.

Examples of Monumental Architecture & Urban Planning in

Early Civilizations Characteristics

a. ziggurat

Which early civilization constructed ziggurats? How were they used? What can we deduce about the civilization that constructed these structures?

b.

pyramid

Which civilizations constructed pyramids? How were they used? What can we deduce about the civilizations that constructed these structures?

c. Oracle Bone

Which early river valley civilization used oracle bones? How were they used? What can we deduce about the civilization that created oracle bones?

d. defensive walls

Which early civilizations constructed defensive walls? Why? What can we deduce about the civilizations that constructed these structures?

b.


e. Sewers

Which early river valley civilization constructed sewers? What can we deduce about the civilization that constructed these structures?

f. written law code

Which early civilization created the first written law code? What can we deduce about this civilization?

8. Systems of record keeping arose in some early civilizations and then spread to new areas over time. Where were the following systems of writing created?

a. Cuneiform –

b. Hieroglyphs –

c. First alphabet –

d. Pictographs (multiple early civilizations created systems of writing with pictographs. List as many as you can find) –


9. Many religious beliefs and practices developed in this period, and some continued to have strong influences in later periods. Briefly describe the following religious traditions and where they developed:

a. The Vedic religion –

b. Hebrew monotheism –

c. Zoroastrianism –

d. Ancestor veneration –

e. Animism -

10. Literature and law codes were also a reflection of culture. Research the following items to find where and when they were created, and explain the importance of each.

a. The “Epic of Gilgamesh” –

b. Rig Veda –

c. Book of the Dead –

d. Code of Hammurabi –

Guns, Germs & Steel Video Guide Foundations (Part One)

Guns, Germs & Steel

Episode One: Out of Eden 1. What does the video’s title (Guns, Germs & Steel) refer to? 2. What questions will the documentary attempt to answer?


3. What is Jared Diamond’s academic background? 4. What was Yali’s question to Jared? 5. Why does Diamond discount race when explaining global inequality? 6. What do all advanced societies have in common? 7. In what area were humans thriving following the last ice age? How did people live there? 8. What was the fundamental problem with hunting? 9. What two cereal grasses were growing in the Middle East? How were they different from other crops? 10. What new way of life would come into existence in the Middle East that would change the face of the earth? 11. What is “domestication”? 12. Why was the turn to farming a decisive turning point in human history? 13. What parts of the ancient world independently developed farming? 14. Why did farming not bring the same benefits to the people of New Guinea?


15. According to Jared, why do Americans have an advantage over New Guineans? 16. What was a second stable source of food for farming communities? 17. Before the Industrial Revolution, what were the most powerful “machines” on the planet? 18. What are the best animals to farm (i.e. domesticate)? 19. How many animals throughout history have been successfully domesticated? Where did these species originate? 20. What are the “Big 4” of livestock animals? What area were they native to? 21. What happened as peoples began to produce farm surpluses? 22. What technology that began with the understanding of how to work with fire, would “transform the world”? 23. Why did New Guinea not develop metal technology? 24. How did the Fertile Crescent lose its early advantage? 25. Why were crops and domesticated animals in the Fertile Crescent able to thrive once people began to migrate along the same lines of latitude?


26. Where were these crops and animals taken to in the 16th century? 27. List some criticisms of Diamond’s argument? How does he answer these criticisms? 28. How would Diamond answer Yali’s question today?

Guns, Germs & Steel Video Guides 1450-1750 (Part Two)

Guns, Germs & Steel

Episode Two: Conquest 1. What questions are asked in this episode? 2. Who were the Spaniards that came to South America? 3. How far did the Inca Empire stretch? 4. Why is Diamond interested in Francisco Pizarro and the Conquistadors? 5. What did domesticated animals from the Fertile Crescent provide Europeans? 6. How did Atahualpa view the Spaniards? What didn’t he realize? 7. What impact did Spanish involvement in European wars and expelling the Moors have on their weapon technology?


8. What was the “real power” of the Conquistadors? 9. Where did metal technology originate? What did Europeans do with this early technology? 10. How do you make steel? 11. What drove the Conquistadors through all their hardships in the Americas? 12. Why were books so useful to the Spanish Conquistadors? 13. Where was writing first developed? What new inventions helped spread writing throughout Eurasia? 14. How did the geography of the Americas hinder the spread of writing and other innovations? 15. What proved decisive for Spanish victory over the Incas? 16. What disease would decimate the Native American population? 17. Why did the Spaniards spread their diseases to the Americas and not vice-versa? 18. What percentage of the American continent’s indigenous population died as a result of European diseases?

Guns, Germs & Steel Video Guides 1750-1014 (Part Three)


Guns, Germs & Steel Episode 3: Into the Tropics

1. What is Diamond’s thesis (or theory)? 2. Why is the climate of South Africa and Europe almost exactly the same? 3. Who were the Cape’s original settlers? 4. What force does Diamond identify as one of the greatest in human history? 5. Who were the Voortrekkers? What agent of European conquest did they yield? 6. What mighty African kingdom did the Voortrekkers “run into” in the 19th century? 7. What battle ended the Zulu’s dominance? 8. What new technology increased the pace of European colonization? 9. What became the Europeans greatest enemy as they moved north into the African continent? Why? 10. Why are the many languages of Africa so similar to one another? 11. Why did African survive the diseases of European colonists, while the Europeans died of African diseases? 12. How did Africans deal with the threat of malaria?


13. What was the great draw for Europeans in Africa? 14. How are germs shaping the story of modern Zambia? 15. What is the economic burden of malaria in Zambia and Africa? 16. According to Diamond, is Africa (and other underdeveloped countries) condemned to a future as poor as its present? Why not? 17. What can the story of Malaysia and Singapore teach us?

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