1. Welcome to A.P. World History

2. Course Description
In A.P. World History we will explore key themes of world history, including interaction with the environment, cultures, state-building, economic systems, and social structures, from approximately 8000 B.C.E. to the present.

3. The A.P. Exam Exam is Thursday, May 14th Graded on scale 1 to 5
3, 4, or 5 = college credit
1,2 = no college credit

4. Document-based question Continuity and change-over time essay
The A.P. Exam Format
Question Type
Number of Questions
Timing
Multiple-choice
70 questions
55 minutes
Document-based question
1 question
50 minutes
Continuity and change-over time essay
40 minutes
Comparative essay

5. THE DBQ
10 Documents
Must use all 10
Must suggest a document that is not in the DBQ you feel would help
You must group the documents into 3 groups, based on their point of view or some similarity

6. Continuity and Change Over Time Essay (CCOT)
No documents, this is a free response essay
Must analyze a change that occurs in a society over time
Example: Analyze continuities and changes in trade networks between Africa and Eurasia from circa 300 C.E. to 1450 C.E.

7. Comparative Essay No documents, this is a free response essay
Must compare 2 regions with each other at a specific point in time
Important you don’t summarize one, then the other. Need to constantly go back and forth
Example: Compare demographic and environmental effects of the Columbian Exchange on the Americas with the Columbian Exchange’s demographic and environmental effects on ONE of the following regions between 1492 and (Africa, Asia, or Europe)

8. Periodization
If you were to write an autobiography at this point in your life, you may very well go chronologically
How would you break up the chapters?
A.P. World History breaks history into 6 chapters, called periods

9. Period Number Title Time Frame Period Weights Textbook Chapters
Technological and Environmental Transformations
8000 B.C.E – 600 B.C.E. 5%
1-6
Period 2
Organization and Reorganization of Human Societies
600 B.C.E. – 600 C.E.
15%
7-12
Period 3
Regional and Transregional Interactions
600 C.E. – 1450
20%
13-21
Period 4
Global Interactions
22-28
Period 5
Industrialization and Global Integration
29-33
Period 6
Accelerating Global Change and Realignments
1914-Present
34-40

10. Course Themes
As we study history, we must focus on 5 major themes for each unit we study
These themes are…

11. Interactions between humans and the environment
Theme 1 - Environment
Interactions between humans and the environment
Demography (population) and disease
Migration
Patterns of Settlement
Technology

12. Development and interactions of cultures
Theme 2 - Culture
Development and interactions of cultures
Religions
Belief systems, philosophies, ideologies
Science and technology
Arts and architecture

13. State building, expansion, and conflict
Theme 3 - Politics
State building, expansion, and conflict
Forms of government
Empires
Nations and nationalism
Revolts and revolutions
Regional, transregional, and global structures and organizations

14. Creation, expansion, and interaction of economic systems
Theme 4 – Economics
Creation, expansion, and interaction of economic systems
Agriculture and pastoral production
Trade and commerce
Labor systems
Industrialization
Capitalism and socialism

15. Development and transformations of social structures
Theme 5 – Sociology
Development and transformations of social structures
Gender roles and relations
Family and kinship
Racial and ethnic constructions
Social and economic classes

16. We’ll use term P.E.C.E.S. to remember the 5 themes
Politics
Environment
Culture
Economics
Sociology

17. Important Info/Tips Use my website
Keep up with course work and do reading/assignments
Read slow, take notes
Don’t be absent and actively participate in class