1. START WITH ART
Using works of art to lay the cultural foundations for the six distinct time periods of AP World History

2. OBJECTIVE
To start a new unit with material designed to focus students’ attention and interest
To lay the cultural foundations for the varying societies we will study.
To pique students’ interest to want to see and/or read more on the subject
To create a sense of awe and wonder for history and art.
To provide materials for discussion and higher order thinking skills.

3. PRE-HISTORY Cultures Types Hunter-Gatherer societies Farmers
Pastoral Herders
Types
Figurtive or Symbolic
Venus Statues
Painting shapes
Body, portable, parietal
Adorn the body
Art to be carried
Art in caves, Stonehenge

4. Lascaux, France and Altamira, Spain
CAVE PAINTINGS
Lascaux, France and Altamira, Spain

5. MONOLITHIC ARCHITECTURE

6. VENUS FIGURINES Where used “Earth Mother”
Paleolithic Societies
Neolithic Societies
Villages
“Earth Mother”
Female-centered religious cults
Fertility

7. RIVER VALLEY CIVILIZATIONS Ancient Civilizations
Hearth Civilizations
Tigris-Euphrates: Sumer, Akkad, Babylon
Nile
Indus
Yellow River
Olmecs
Changes from Neolithic to Civilization
Complex religion
Institutions such as states
Specialization
Architecture becomes critical

8. MESOPOTAMIA Sumerian Seals Ziggurats Epic of Gilgamesh Deities statues
Gold jewelry
Bas-relief
Hammurabi’s code

9. EGYPT Pyramids Funerary statues Hieroglyphics Deity Statues Frescos
Sarcophagus
Book of the Dead

10. CHINA Yang-Shao pottery Oracle Bones Ideographs Silk Paintings
Shang Bronzes
Zhou Bronzes

11. MOHENJO-DARO HARAPPA Terracota statues Indus Seals Gold jewelry
Bronze Dancer
Architecture
Public Baths

12. OLMEC Basalt heads Glyphic proto-alphabet Architecture Stone stelae
San Lorenzo
La Venta
Stone stelae
Jade Were
Jaguar figurines

13. 1200 BCE TO 600 CE THE CLASSICAL AGE
Classical Civilizations
India from the Aryans to the Gupta
China from the Zhou to the Han
SW Asia of the Assyrians and Persians
Mediterranean of the Greeks and Romans
Africa of the Ethiopians and Nubians
Nomadic and Pastoral Peoples
Changes in Themes from Ancient Cultures
Rise of Cosmopolitan (Trans-regional) cultures
Rise of Cosmopolitan religions, philosophies
Increased Interactions: War, Trade, Exchanges
Stratification of classes; rise of aristocracy
Rise of large metropolis centers

14. ? EARLY BELIEF SYSTEMS Polytheism Judaism Philosophy Hinduism
Confucianism
Daoism
Buddhism
Christianity

15. CLASSICAL SOUTHWEST ASIA
Empires
Assyria
Babylon
Persia
Other Cultures
Phoenicians
Jews
Images of state power
Trading goods
Images of chief gods

16. CLASSICAL EAST ASIA Dynasties First Chinese Empire Philosophies
Western Zhou
Qin
Han
First Chinese Empire
Philosophies
Lao Tzu
Confucius
Legalism
Trade and Silk Road
The Mean People

17. CLASSICAL INDIA Timeline Religious Influences Influences on arts
16 Great States
Rise of Aristocratic Republics
Persian and Greek Intrusions
Mauryan Dynasty
Guptan Dynasty
Kushan Period
Religious Influences
Hinduism
Buddhism
Jainism
Influences on arts
Constant movement
Conquest by outsiders
Blending of cultures
Rise of castes
Contacts through trade

18. CLASSICAL MEDITERRANEAN Early Period to 700 BCE
Cultures
Phoenicians
Minoans
Mycenaeans
Etruscans
Kelts
Influences
Cosmopolitan cultures
Popular Movement
Exchanges of ideas, goods
Conquest and War
Importance of state

19. CLASSICAL MEDITERRANEAN Greece and Persia
Periods
Hellenic Greeks
Hellenistic Greeks
Antigonids
Ptolemies
Seleucids
Parthians
Sasanids
Themes
Rationality
Reason
Realism
Balances
Exchanges

20. CLASSICAL ROME Republican and Imperial
Hellenistic
Culture
Veritas
Realism
Practical
Utility
Emphasis on state
Architecture
Blending of cultures

21. CLASSICAL PRE-COLUMBIAN AMERICAS
Mesoamericas
Maya
Toltec
Aztec
Andean
Inca
Themes
Indigenous
Tribute states
Environment

22. NOMADS & SEMI-NOMADIC PEOPLES
Eurasia
Indo-Europeans
Indo-Aryans
Indo-Iranians
Xiong-nu (Huns)
Africa
Nok
Bantu
Pacific
Polynesians
Themes
Portable
Decorative
Personal
Often utilitarian