1. WHAP
Note taking stategies

2. WHAP Social Political Interaction between humans and enviroment
Culture
Economics

3. Social Gender roles and relations
Family and kinship (daily life organized)
Racial and economic constructions
Social and economic classes (hierarchy)

4. Social Look for: Roles and practices Inequality
How transformations of social structures were related to other events (economic, political, etc.)

5. Political Political structures and forms of governance
Empires, nations, and nationalism
Revolts and revolutions
Regional, transregional and global structures and organizations (ex: alliances, guilds, etc.)

6. Political Look for: Systems of rule Laws Conflicts generated
Development/expansion
Overlap (economic, religion, etc.)

7. Interactions between humans and environment
Demography (populations) and disease
Migration
Patterns of settlement
Technology

8. Interactions between humans and the environment
Look for:
Use of resources
Climate
Population growth
Extinction
Natural disasters (ex: sharknado)
Overlap (political laws, economic supply demand, etc.)

9. Culture Religions Belief systems, philosophies, and ideologies
Science and technology
The arts and architecture

10. Culture Look for: Transmission (culture shared/spread other locations
Influence (internal and external)
Change over time
Similarities/differences across societies
Overlap (gender roles, government structure)

11. Economic Agricultural and pastoral production Trade and commerce
Labor system
Industrialization
Capitalism and socialism

12. Economic Look for: Trade routes/systems (regional and global)
Influence on technology (ex: trains)
Patterns between societies
Who is in control of resources (land, etc.)

13. Additional things to look for
Events (cause and effect, interconnectedness, lasting impact and changes)
Wars (significant battles, how outcomes were decided, technology, lasting impact ex: territorial expansion)
Individuals ( first to accomplish, inventions, change the world, legacy, begin/strengthen/weaken/end an Empire)