Summer Homework Assignment

AP World History

1. Check out a copy of the textbook from the WGHS library before leaving for summer vacation.

You will NOT be able to check out the textbook during summer break. Please plan accordingly. ! Textbook chapter is also available as a .pdf file at scudder.weebly.com

2. Read and complete reading notes on Chapter 2 of your textbook. ! Your notes may be completed in either “outline-style” or “Cornell-style.” ! Instructions and examples on these note-taking styles can be found online at

scudder.weebly.com ! Your notes should include a paragraph-length summary at the end. ! You will turn in your notes and be tested on Chapter 2 during the first week of school.

3. Complete and study the Summer Prep Work packet. Copies of packets will be distributed to all students enrolled in AP World, and also posted online at scudder.weebly.com. There will be a test on the map and vocabulary during the first week of school.

This amount of summer homework is equivalent to one week’s worth of coursework. You are expected to complete all of the summer homework, and extensions will only be granted if you enroll at WGHS after August 1, 2016. If you have questions during the summer, please email kscudder@sjusd.org. Please note that email will be checked weekly during June and July.

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 or the quizlet site posted on scudder.weebly.com to review. Acculturation Agrarian Apartheid Arable Autocracy Buddhism Bureaucracy Capitalism Caravan Cash crop Caste System Censorship Christianity Climate Colony Commodity Communism Confucianism 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 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

AP World History“Must Know” Geography Map September 7, 2012You should be able to locate/identify ALL of the following countriesAsiaEast Asia: China JapanRepublic of China (Taiwan)North Korea South Korea SE Asia: Cambodia IndonesiaMalaysia Myanmar (Burma)Philippines SingaporeThailand VietnamSouth Asia: Afghanistan BangladeshIndia Pakistan SW Asia(Mid-East) Iran Iraq IsraelJordan Saudi ArabiaSyria TurkeyCentral Asia KazakhstanAfricaNorthAfrica: Algeria EgyptLibya Morocco East Africa: Ethiopia KenyaMadagascar SomaliaSudan TanzaniaWestAfrica: Chad Côte D’IvoireMali MauritaniaNiger Nigeria EquatorialAfrica: Cameroon Cent. Afr. Rep.Rwanda SudanUganda Dem Rep of Congo (Zaire)SouthernAfrica: Angola BotswanaDem Rep of Congo (Zaire) South AfricaZambia Zimbabwe

AmericasCentral Mexico NicaraguaPanama Caribbean Bahamas CubaJamaica Puerto RicoSouth Argentina Brazil Colombia Ecuador Peru VenezuelaEuropeWest England/Great Britain/U.K.France GermanyPortugal Spain East Hungary PolandRomania RussiaUkraine YugoslaviaNorthern Finland NorwaySweden Southern Italy Greece

AP World History“Must Know” Geography Map September 7, 20122

East Asia: China JapanRepublic of China (Taiwan)North Korea South Korea SE Asia: Cambodia IndonesiaMalaysia Myanmar (Burma)Philippines SingaporeThailand Vietnam

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EuropeWest England/Great Britain/U.K.France GermanyPortugal Spain East Hungary PolandRomania RussiaUkraine YugoslaviaNorthern Finland NorwaySweden Southern Italy Greece

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AfricaNorthAfrica: Algeria EgyptLibya Morocco East Africa: Ethiopia KenyaMadagascar SomaliaSudan TanzaniaWestAfrica: Chad Côte D’IvoireMali MauritaniaNiger Nigeria EquatorialAfrica: Cameroon Cent. Afr. Rep.Rwanda SudanUganda Dem Rep of Congo (Zaire)SouthernAfrica: Angola BotswanaDem Rep of Congo (Zaire) South AfricaZambia Zimbabwe

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South Asia: Afghanistan BangladeshIndia Pakistan SW Asia(Mid-East) Iran Iraq IsraelJordan Saudi ArabiaSyria TurkeyCentral Asia Kazakhstan

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AmericasCentral Mexico NicaraguaPanama Caribbean Bahamas CubaJamaica Puerto RicoSouth Argentina Brazil Colombia Ecuador Peru Venezuela

www.PrintableWorldMap.net

Must Know Landforms and Waterways

Alps Amazon Andes Arabian Desert Arabian Sea Arctic Ocean Atlantic Ocean Baltic Sea Bay of Bengal Black Sea

Caribbean Sea Caspian Sea Caucus Mountains Congo River English Channel Gobi Desert 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