1. AP Themes and Key Concepts

2. What you need to know for the quiz:
What SPICE stands for
Examples of each
What are the nine historical thinking skills?
What are the six periods in APWH?
Know them by date
AP World Regions
Very basic, which major countries are in which region

3. 5 AP Themes SPICE S – Social P – Political
I – Interactions with the environment
C – Culture
E – Economics

4. Spice – Social – Development and Transformation of Social Structures

5. Spice – Social – Development and Transformation of Social Structures
Relations among humans
Grouping members of a society (stratification)
Kinship, race, gender, wealth
Different from “Culture”
Social is how we deal with each other
Culture is how we deal with our world

6. sPice – Political - State Building, Expansion, and Conflict

7. sPice – Political - State Building, Expansion, and Conflict
Different forms of government
Kingdoms, empires, nation-states
How different kinds of societies need different forms of government
Warfare and conflict

8. spIce – Interactions – Interactions between Humans and the Environment

9. spIce – Interactions – Interactions between Humans and the Environment
How the environment changed humans
Races, diets, lifespans, migrations
How humans changed the environment
Irrigation, farming, land development
Biggest during Industrial Revolution (1700s)

10. spiCe - Culture - Development and Interaction of Cultures

11. spiCe - Culture - Development and Interaction of Cultures
Spreading of beliefs, actions, and knowledge between and within societies
Religions, technology, stratification
Diffusion – spread of culture from one society to another

12. spicE – Economics - Creation, Expansion, and Interaction of Economic Systems

13. spicE – Economics - Creation, Expansion, and Interaction of Economic Systems
Major transitions in trade
From bartering to regional trade to long-distance trade
Economic systems
Agricultural, pastoral, industrial
Labor systems
Forced labor, farmers, capitalism, socialism

16. Historical Thinking Skills!
1. Historical Causation*
2. Patterns of Continuity and Change over Time*
3. Periodization*
4. Comparison*
* One of the four types of Long Essays on the Exam

17. Skill 1: Historical Causation
Show the relationships among causes and effects
Causation (made it happen) and correlation (happened as well, but didn’t necessarily cause it)
Proficient students should be able to …
Compare causes and/or effects, including between short-term and long-term effects.
Analyze and evaluate the interaction of multiple causes and/or effects.

18. Skill 1: Historical Causation Sample Questions
Analyze two effects of the French Revolution on its colonial holdings.
List and explain three causes for European exploration between the years 1450 and
For the period , explain ONE factor behind population changes in Chart 1.

19. Skill 2: Continuity and Change over Time – Sample Questions
Continuity – what continued
Patriarchy, caste system, trade w/ outsiders
Change over time – what changed
Technology, religions, war
Proficient students should be able to …
Analyze and evaluate historical patterns of continuity and change over time.

20. Skill 2: Continuity and Change over Time – Sample Questions
Using specific examples, analyze continuities and changes in the relationship between legal systems and social hierarchies in the period circa 2000 BCE to circa 1000 CE.
Using specific examples, analyze continuities and changes in the social status of women in China in the period circa 100 CE to circa 1000 CE.

21. Skill 3: Periodization
Periodization – break up into periods or “time chunks”
Evaluate them
Turning points
Different periods mean different things for different people
2016 in America
4714 in China
1437 in Islamic World
Different periods regarding themes
SPICE
Proficient students should be able to …
Explain ways that historical events and processes can be organized within blocks of time.
Analyze and evaluate competing models of periodization of world history.

22. Skill 3: Periodization – Sample Questions
Evaluate the extent to which the emergence of Buddhism in the fifth century BCE can be considered a turning point in world history.
Some historians have argued that American history courses should begin coverage following Europe's discovery of the New World. Evaluate this argument.

23. Six Units Foundations Classical Post-Classical Pre-Modern Modern
Contemporary

24. Skill 4: Comparison
Compare developments in one society or compare them among one or more society
Compare perspectives on the same development
How did Christians view the Crusades? How did Muslims?
Proficient students should be able to …
Compare related historical developments and processes across place, time, and/or different societies, or within one society.
Explain and evaluate multiple and differing perspectives on a given historical phenomenon.

25. Skill 4: Comparison – Sample Questions
Analyze at least one similarity and one difference in the causes of the French Revolution and the Haitian Revolution.
Analyze at least one similarity and one difference in the system of slavery in Rome between the years 100 BCE to 500 CE and in the Atlantic world between the years CE to 1750 CE.