Bowie AP World History



Period 1: The Beginnings of Human Societies, to c. 600 B.C.E.ESSENTIAL QUESTIONSWhat factors motivated early human migration? Analyze any patterns of these migrations.How have human societies reflected changes in human adaptations to the environment? How did different groups of humans successfully adapt to changing environmental conditions or migrate to different regions of the earth?In what ways did the Neolithic Revolution lead to new and more complex economic and social systems within human societies after 10,000 B.C.E.?How did the development of complex societies change how people lived? Why did humans develop agriculture? How did the introduction of agriculture impact human societies?How did the advent of agriculture change the relationship between humans and the environment?Compare the origins of pastoralism with agriculture.How did the advent of pastoralism affect humanity’s relationship with the environment?Identify the regions in which complex societies developed. How did the physical geographies of these regions impact the development of civilizations?Identify the main features of pare the civilizations of Mesopotamia and Egypt.Although the Olmec civilization developed in the jungles around Veracruz, why should it too be considered a river valley civilization possible only through irrigation?Compare the Olmec civilizations with Afro-Eurasian river valley pare pastoral cultures with the culture of complex sedentary civilizations. Practice Short Answer QuestionsAnswer parts A & B.Analyze ONE reason why the Mandate of Heaven was developed by the Zhou Dynasty in China.Identify and explain ONE similarity and ONE difference between the power of the Chinese rulers under the mandate and the power of the Egyptian pharaoh.Question 2 refers to the following image of a Shang period bronze vessel.Vessels such as this large wine jar were used in rituals by the Shang ruling class to make contact with their ancestors. As both the source and proof of the elite’s authority, these vessels were often buried in Shang tombs. The complex shapes and elaborate decorations testify to the artisan’s skills.Identify and explain TWO historical claims that can be made about the Shang Dynasty that can be supported based on the image above.Identify ONE limitation of the image as a source of information about the Shang Dynasty.Period 2: Empires, Religions, and Trade, C. 600 B.C.E. to c. 600 C.E. ESSENTIAL QUESTIONSTo what extent was the organization and reorganization of human societies between 600 B.C.E. and 600 C.E. the result of internal changes and external challenges, including environmental challenges?How do social, political, and cultural institutions increase in complexity with the movement from village life to city-states to empires?How did the development of belief systems as well as cultural traditions affect social and political structures? How did the development of regional networks of exchange affect political structures and cultural traditions?What were the main features of an empire as a type of state?Identify the characteristics of the Classical pare the Persian Empire and Greek city-states.Analyze the relationship between Alexander’s empire and the regions he pare the political development and organization of the Roman and Chinese empires.Analyze the reasons for the collapse of the Roman and Chinese pare the characteristics of the Mauryan and Gupta pare the ideas and development of Legalism, Confucianism, and pare the development of the Vedic religions and Judaism.Analyze the development of Buddhism and Jainism and their relationships to Vedic pare Zoroastrianism and Judaism.Identify the main features of Greco-Roman pare the impact of Greco-Roman philosophies with the Chinese philosophies?Compare the lives of Jesus and the Buddha.Identify the main features of pare the social structures of China, India, and the Roman pare gender roles in China and Greece.Identify the main characteristics of complex societies in Northeast Africa (Kush-Meroe and Axum) and West Africa.To what extend is movement or migration one of the key characteristics which explains developments during this time period?Analyze the causes and effects of the Bantu pare Bantu, Indo-European and Polynesian pare the main characteristics of complex societies in Mesoamerica, the Andes, and North America.PRactice Short Answer QuestionsAnswer parts A & B.Identify and explain ONE similarity in the Mayan civilization and the Greek civilization based on the passage above.Identify and briefly explain TWO similarities between the Mayan civilization and the Greek civilization.Answer parts A & B.Cite ONE piece of evidence demonstrating the power of religion in the Mayan civilization.Identify and briefly explain TWO similarities between Mayan religion and the religion in ancient Sumer.PRACTICE LONG ESSAY QUESTIONChose two of the following religions and compare their emergence and spread;ChristianityBuddhismHinduismIslamDiscuss why 600 CE is considered a turning point in World History.Period 3: An Unconnected World of Connected Regions,c. 600 C.E. to c. 1450ESSENTIAL QUESTIONSWhat were the major causes and consequences of the expansion and intensification of communication and exchange networks between 600 C.E. and 1450?What was the relationship between regional networks of exchange, empires and cultural traditions? How were existing political institutions maintained and transformed during this time period? How did human societies increase their productive capabilities?What aided the extension and intensification of trade and communication networks and how did long-distance trade influence economic practices and production?Identify the main features of the Silk Roads network of exchange.Identify the main features of the Indian Ocean network of pare the effects of participation in the Indian Ocean network on Southeast Asia and East Africa.Identify the main features of the Trans-Saharan network of exchange.Identify the environmental effects of increased integration.Identify the main features of the Americas’ network of exchange.Analyze the revival of empire in China under the Sui, Tang, and Song Dynasties.Analyze the relationship between the Chinese and their nomadic pare China’s relationship with Korea, Japan, and Vietnam.Analyze the economic relationship between China and the rest of Afro-Eurasia.Identify the main characteristics of the Byzantine Empire.Analyze the relationship between the Byzantine Empire and the rest of Afro-Eurasia.Analyze the decentralized political system of Western Europe.Analyze the role of the Catholic Church in Western pare the role of the Christian Church in Western and Eastern pare the economic revival of Europe after 1000 C.E. with the Song Commercial pare the economic, technological, and educational development of Europe after 1000 C.E. with the rest of Afro-Eurasia.Identify the main features of the Viking, Hanseatic, and Italian networks of exchange.Identify the main features of Islam.What political and social aspects let to the split between the Shia and Sunni in Islam?Analyze the reasons for the rapid spread of the Arab empire and its effects on conquered pare Islamic civilizations in India, Anatolia, West Africa, and Spain: note similarities and differences between each region. Analyze the relationship between Islamic civilization and the rest of Afro-Eurasia.Trace the development of civilization in West Africa and East Africa during this era.What roles did trade and interactions have on the development of culture in Sub-Saharan Africa?What were the consequences of long-distance migrations?Practice SAQsAnswer parts A, B and C.Identify and explain ONE economic impact Islamic traders had on Sub-Saharan Africa.Identify and explain ONE cultural influence Islamic traders had on sub-Sahara Africa.Identify and explain ONE instance where local Sub-Saharan cultures resisted assimilation with Islam.Answer parts A, B and C.Identify and explain ONE aspect of this image that reflects the culture in the Islamic works during the Abbasid era.Identify and explain ONE effect of the influence of Persia on Islamic culture.Identify and explain ONE reason for the successes of Islam during the post-classical period.Answer parts A and B.Identify and explain TWO effects of the spread of Buddhism on China.Identify and explain ONE effect on Buddhism from contact with Chinese culture.PRACTICE LONG ESSAY QUESTIONDiscuss change and continuity over time in women’s roles in one of the following regions between 500 and 1450.? Middle East? China? North AmericaCompare the motives for invading the Middle East of European Crusaders and central Asia Mongols.Discuss why the introduction of Islam is or is not a turning point in World History.PERIOD 4: AN INTERCONNECTED WORLD 1450 – 1750ESSENTIAL QUESTIONSWhat are some of the different names used to identify this historical period? What do the names imply about characteristics of this period?What were the major characteristics of this period?What were the different types of empires state structures common to this period?How did the states contribute to increased global integration in this period?How did the widespread growth of empires affect human societies?Why were there no large empires in Western Europe? Why were empires more prevalent in most other parts of the world? Compare political and cultural developments and maritime expansion in 15th century China and Europe.To what extent do you agree or disagree with this statement: “while Western Europe represented the future to come, China represented the greatness that was past.”Compare European expansion into the Indian Ocean with the traditional roles of the Chinese, Indian, and Muslim merchants there over the centuries.Analyze the development of the Tokugawa Shogunate in Japan.Why did the Japanese institute their policies of isolation and exclusion? What did they hope to achieve? Why did a global economy arise for the first time during this period? What were the characteristics of the global economy of this period?How do changes in the world economy affect social and cultural systems?What is the global impact of the Columbian Exchange?What was the role of each of these oceans in this global economy: (a) the Atlantic Ocean, (b) the Indian Ocean, and (c) the Pacific Ocean?Why was the Mediterranean Ocean less important as a trade zone during this period?Analyze the global silver trade and its role in the global economy. What factor(s) led to the development of the Pacific network of exchange?Analyze the development of the global fur trade (black gold). What geographic features account for the dominant role of North America and Northern Eurasia in this trade?Analyze the development of the Atlantic Slave Trade and its role in the creation of a unified Atlantic network of exchanges.How did the Triangular Trades in the Atlantic function? In what ways did the Triangular Trade aid the economic development of Europe but retard or delay the development of the Americas and Atlantic Africa?Compare the voyages of James Cook and the early colonization of Australia with earlier European voyages of expansion and colonization of the Americas.What were the roles of the peoples of each of these regions in the broader world during this period: (a) the Americas, (b) the Western Europeans, (c) the Eastern Europeans, (d) the Muslims of Southwest Asia and North Africa, (e) Sub-Saharan Africans, (f) Southern and Southeastern Asia, and (g) East Asia, To what extent would it be fair to conclude that the inner regions and populations of the Americas, Northern or Inner Asia, much of Sub-Saharan Africa and Oceania-Pacifica were still largely outside of the global economy?Compare the different cultural developments in a more interconnected world.What is the relationship in this period between the development of the arts and a common form of government, absolutism (sometimes also called Oriental Absolutism)?How did the increased degrees of political and economic integration affect cultural developments in this period?What religious developments occurred during this period?To what extent could a historian conclude that one characteristic of this time period was religious reformation or reformations?What are some of the major continuities between this period and the previous period? What would account for the continuities?What are some of the major changes during this period over past periods? What would account for these changes?To what extent did technological and cultural developments within human societies result in the “globalizing” of communication and exchange networks between 1450 and 1750?In what ways did the communication and exchange networks during this era reflect changes from and continuities with exchange networks in the previous period of world history?PRACTICE SHORT ANSWER QUESTIONSAnswer parts A and B.Identify and explain TWO political changes that occurred in Western Europe during the period 1450 – 1750.Identify and explain ONE change in arts & sciences that occurred in Western Europe during the period 1450 – 1750.Answer parts A and B.Identify and explain TWO societal changes that occurred in Western Europe as a result of the Reformation.Identify and explain ONE political change that occurred in Western Europe as a result of the Enlightenment.PRACTICE LONG ESSAY QUESTIONSAnalyze the changes and continuities on the African continent from 1450 to 1750.Period 5: Industry and Empires: The Emergence of the Modern World, c. 1750 to c. 1900essential questionsIdentify some of the different names for the historical sub-periods during this broad period.How do these names indicate patterns and characteristics during this period?Identify the major patterns during this period?To what extent was industrialization a global process?To what extent was capitalism and capital a global phenomenon during this period?To what extent was imperialism a common characteristic of this time period?Why might this era be called an age of revolutions?What political ideologies became common during this period? Which ones were global ideologies?What forms of new states developed?How did modern states emerge? What challenges confronted the centralization of Muslim states during the 18th century?How did the different Muslim states respond to these challenges?Compare the causes and effects of the Atlantic Revolutions.How did the Atlantic revolutions influence the development of new states and ideologies?Compare the challenges to the 18th century Muslim world and the causes of the Atlantic Revolutions.Why did the British request in the late 18th century to be allowed to trade with China? Why did the Chinese refuse?Why was Great Britain the first nation to industrialize?What were the causes for the industrialization of Great Britain? What was the connection between the industrialization of Great Britain, its desire to trade with China and the decision by British merchants to use opium in its trade with China?Trace the spread of industrialization after Great Britain. Why was the sequence of the spread of industrialization around the world impacted by geography and cultural values?Compare the processes and effects of industrialization on Western Europe, Russia, Japan, the United States, Latin America, and India.How did the Industrial Revolution lead to a division and inequalities between core industrialized nations and peripheral underdeveloped nations?What were the social effects of industrialization on populations and cultures around the world?What were political, social and economic reactions to industrialization?What changes and continuities occurred in labor markets during this period including slavery, wage labor, and indentured servitude? How did coerced labor change over the course of the nineteenth century?Compare the processes of the abolition of slavery and the feminist movement including suffrage. Compare and contrast changes and continuities in gender roles and social hierarchies during this period. Do these differ between geographical regions?Analyze the major patterns of political modernization and development of nation-states during the 19th century.Analyze the causes and effects of the development of nationalism?How did West European nationalism compare with nationalist ideologies in East Asia, South Asia, Southwest Asia, Eastern Europe and Latin America? What would account for differences?Analyze the reasons for Western Europe’s and the United States’ increased interactions with the world during the 19th century. Compare the different impacts and responses around the world to Western imperialism? Did local responses towards imperialism differ based on the specific Western nation involved? How did responses to Western imperialism differ between China, Japan, Russia, the Ottoman Empire, and India?Compare the outcomes to Western imperialism around the world.Analyze the various impacts of imperialism on the pare changes and continuities in East Asia with changes in other non-Western regions around the world.Analyze the causes and characteristics of 19th century immigration.How did patterns of migration change in the nineteenth century, and why were these changes significant?How do the needs of new global economies and new modes of transportation lead to global migration (both free and coerced)?What were major changes and continuities during this time period? What would account for changes and continuities?PRACTICE SHORT ANSWER QUESTIONSQuestion 1 refers to the situation below.Some historians have argued that the Westernization of the Ottoman Empire, China during the Qing Dynasty, and Meiji Japan brought more problems than benefits to people of these areas.Answer parts A and B.Provide ONE piece of evidence that supports this argument, and explain how it supports it.Provide TWO pieces of evidence that undermine this argument, and explain how each piece undermines it.Answer parts A and B.Explain ONE economic motivation behind the European imperialism of the nineteenth century.Explain ONE way in which economic imperialism hurt the colonized lands and ONE way it helped them.PRACTICE LONG ESSAY QUESTIONSAnalyze changes and continuities in family dynamics and the role of wome from 1750 to 1900 in countries that experiences the Industrial pare the process of industrialization in Egypt under Muhammad Ali and in Japan during the Meiji Era.Analyze continuity and change in the responses of native peoples to imperialism in India between 1750 and 1900.ESSENTIAL QUESTIONSPeriod 6: The 20th Century and Beyond, c. 1900 to the PresentWhat were the major characteristics and themes of the 20th century?Were the characteristics different from 1900 to 1945 and 1945 to present?What were the sources of political and economic conflict during the twentieth century? What were the long and short term causes of World War I?What were the effects of World War I and the various peace treaties on Western Europe, Eastern Europe, the Middle East, South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa? What ideologies have had a great influence during the 20th century?To what extent did ideology play a role in causing and the duration of conflict in the 20th century?Identify the different challenges to the Western-dominated global order at the beginning of the 20th pare the responses of Sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East, South Asia, Southeast Asia and East Asia to the Western dominated global order after World War I. Analyze the causes and effects of the Great pare reactions to the Great Depression around the world including the Western democracies; Germany, Italy, and Eastern Europe; Japan; Latin America and the Western colonies.What is Keynesian economics and how is it related to the rise of the Western welfare state?Compare and contrast right-wing and left-wing totalitarianisms of the 20th century?Analyze the causes of World War II.How did the course of the war play out in Western Europe, Eastern Europe, Africa, Asia and the Pacific?What roles did technology play in the two world wars and during the subsequent Cold War?What were the causes and different paths of decolonization that colonial societies followed?Compare Soviet (Russian) communism (Marxism-Leninism) and Chinese communism (Maoism)?Compare the processes towards independence of countries in different regions of the pare the decolonization process and long-term impacts of independence of Israel/Palestine, India, and Vietnam. How did decolonization transform the world's political order? ?How was the Cold War a global conflict, and how did it affect peoples around the world? Compare the causes and processes of the early Cold War to 1950.Was the Cold War a struggle between ideologies, or a power struggle between the United States and the Soviet Union?How was the Cold War “fought” or played out in different regions of the world?What were the different ways that human societies responded to the economic challenges of the 20th century?Compare the impacts of capitalism, socialism (communism), and attempts by many societies to steer a third path or way between these two ideologies.What problems brought down the fall of communism in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union?How have formerly communist states handled the transition from a communist to a largely capitalist society?Based on current world history to what extent are democracy and capitalism compatible?How did the rise of the United States as a global power affect human societies?To what extent has the 20th century been largely an American century?Is the United States an empire (in the classical sense and use of the word)? Compare 20th century historical trends in Turkey and Iran.How has the global economy evolved over the course of the twentieth century? What global economic and political institutions of governance have arisen in the course of the 20th century? Which ones have been successful and which ones failures? Why?How have institutions of global governance affected the global political order and peoples' lives?What regional economic integrations and cooperative movements have arisen since World War II? Which regional integrations have been the most successful and why?How did humanity’s relationship with the environment change in this period?What were the effects of this change?What was the Green Revolution and to what extent was it successful or a failure?How did the major scientific and technological developments transform human society and our relationship with the environment?What have been the changes and continuities in gender relationships during the 20th century? What are the differences in these changes between regions?How have peoples’ understandings of culture and society changed in the 20th century?How have religions during the 20th century changed?To what extent have people and groups around the world politicized religion?To what extent have secularism and traditions come into conflict during the 20th century?What developments in global culture have occurred in the 20th century?To what extent do existing global trends seem sustainable?Does 20th-century globalization represent a new phenomenon in world history? Why or why not?In what ways does popular culture (art, film, sport, etc.) reflect the major political, economic, and social issues of the time period?How do innovations in communication and transportation help create a global culture?In what ways do individuals and local groups resist globalization? ................
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