World History AP

Unit 12: The Years Between the World Wars
1920’s Western Cultural Developments
WESTERN CULTURE during the roaring 20's
  • Scientific Advancements
  • Effects in Visual Art - Surrealism
  • Effects in Music - The Jazz Age and Prohibition in the USA
Capitalism’s Crisis
Crisis within the West's Capitalist System
  • Stock Market Crashes
  • The Great Depression and Banking Institutions [Ind vs Community Rights!]
  • The American Dust Bowl 
  • FDR's New Deal, Democratic Socialism and the "Cure"

Unit 11: The Great War
  • Setting the Stage 
    • Long-Term Causes 
    • Collective Security: The Alliance System
  • The Guns of August
    • ​The Powder Keg
  • Total War
    • ​​Conventional Wisdom vs. Emerging Technology = War of Attrition
    • Propaganda and Conscription
  • Looking Back; Looking Forward​
    • ​Winning the War
    • Armistice and Treaty of Versailles
    • Consequences Home and Abroad
    • Flu Pandemic of 1918

Unit 10: Neocolonialism & Western Imperialism / Defensive Modernization
  • A Western Advantage and The "White Man's Burden"
  • The Scramble for Africa
  • Asia: Cash Crops, Spheres of Influence and Selective Adoption
  • Latin America's Role

Unit 9: The Industrial Revolutions
  • Why Europe? Why Britain?
  • Pros and Cons: Capitalism
  • New Ways of Thinking
    • ​socialism, Marxism, communism
  • Worlds Systems Theory
  • Life in the Industrial Age: 2nd Wave IR
  • Anthropocene
Unit 8: European Enlightenment & Political Revolutions 
  • European Enlightenment & American Revolution
  • French Revolution
  • Napoleon Bonaparte & French Revs of 1830 and 1848
  • Haitian Revolution
  • Latin American Revolutions
  • Spread of Revolutions in Europe mid-1800s
Unit 7: Late Agrarian Age or Early Modern World
  • c.13 Political Transformations: Empires and Encounters
    • ​Empires of the Americas
    • Great Dying & Columbian Exchange
    • Colonies of Sugar vs. Settler Colonies
    • Building a Russian Empire
    • Ming and Qing China
    • Mughals in India
  • ​c.14 Economic Transformations: Commerce and Consequences
    • ​Portuguese vs. Spain - Outposts vs. Plantations
    • Silver, Furs & Global Commerce
    • African Slave Trade
  • ​c.15 Cultural Transformations: Religion and Science
    • ​Globalization of Christianity
    • Expansion and Renewal in Dar al Islam
    • China: New Directions in an Old Tradition
    • India: Bridging the Hindu / Muslim Divide
    • Europe and the Scientific Revolution
Unit 6: Worlds of the 1400's
  • Paleolithic Persistence, Pastoralists and Agricultural Villages
  • European vs. Ming Renaissance
  • Islamic Empires: Ottoman, Safavid, Mughal and Songhay
  • Aztec and Inca in the Americas
Unit 5: Golden Age of China
  • Sui, Tang and Song China
  • Wait for it...The MONGOLS!
Unit 4: Monotheism in the Post-Classical World​
Unit 3: Classical and Post-Classical Trade Routes
Unit 2: 1st Wave and 2nd Wave "Classical Civilizations
  • ​Continuities and Changes, Making Connections
  • Historical Thinking Skills
  • Cultural Hearths / Axial Age and Wisdom Traditions...setting the FOUNDATIONS of future civs
Unit 1: The Beginnings:
  • BIG HISTORY: Evolution, ​Human Diaspora, Paleolithic lifestyles [SPICE-T]
  • Neolithic Revolution: agriculture, domestication and the Rise of the State
  • Early Human Civilizations: 1st Wave


Pre-Chapter 1 "Stuff"

Professionals of the Social Sciences
Why Study History - Steven Kreis
Chief Seattle - ​How Can You Buy or Sell the Earth
Ishmael by Daniel Quinn Assignment 
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"There's no success like failure, and failure's no success at all" - Bob Dylan​




















Pay no attention to the mess below!

Ist Wave Civilizations
Over the next few weeks, we are going to learn TONS about the following groups of people:
  • Persians
  • Greeks
  • Romans
  • Indians (Mayuran and Gupta Dynasties)
  • Chinese (Qin and Han)
We need to have a pretty good idea (and evidence!) about all SPICE themes. This section of the course takes a week or so to get going because we get the necessary information over three successive chapters. Chapter 3 gives us the information about the governments and political systems, Chapter 4 their belief systems, philosophies and religious traditions and Chapter 5 diving into their social structures and hierarchies. If you have some extra time today/tomorrow, watch a the relevant CrashCourse videos, check out FREEMANPEDIA.com and Khan Academy goodies...all Sherer-approved AP sources for information! The video below is about the origin and Big Picture of the Classical Persian Empire.

Unit 2 Big Picture Introduction
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Here are some examples from a student who mastered both the class and the test!
Here's Something Cool!
TedTalk on the mysterious Indus Valley Script [about 17 minutes]
How To Outline Chapters from Strayer Text
  • Chapter Thesis
  • Main Heading Thesis
    • Evidence
  • Sub-Section Thesis
    • Evidence
      • Repeat
  • Key Terms
    • Identify
  • Key Places
    • Know where they are!
  • Chapter Examples of:
    • Diffusion, Common Phenomenon, Syncretism and C/C
 
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