WElcome to Ap world modern history
Welcome to AP world History, the AP World History course focuses on developing students' understanding of world history from approximately 1000 CE to the present. The course has students investigate the content of world history for significant events, individuals, developments, and processes in six historical periods, and develop and use the same thinking skills and methods (analyzing primary and secondary sources, making historical comparisons, chronological reasoning, and argumentation) employed by historians when they study the past. The course also provides five themes (interaction between humans and the environment; development and interaction of cultures; state building, expansion, and conflict; creation, expansion, and interaction of economic systems; and development and transformation of social structures) that students explore throughout the course in order to make connections among historical developments in different times and places encompassing the five major geographical regions of the globe: Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe, and Oceania (AP collage board).
Suggested Materials for Class:
AP World Notebook/Binder
AP world notebook can be a five subject notebook or a binder with five sections, though I recommend the binder.
Sections:
AP World Notebook/Binder
AP world notebook can be a five subject notebook or a binder with five sections, though I recommend the binder.
Sections:
- Notes
- Primary sources and in class activities
- Writing Section
- Homework and Vocabulary
- Tests and Review
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Themes and AP World History:
The AP World History course is organized into five specific themes that will be the focal point of this course. The themes also provide a way to organize comparisons and analyze change and continuity over time, as well as comparative analysis between cultures.
Theme 1 – Interaction between humans and the environment
Theme 2 – Development and Interaction of Cultures
Theme 3 – State-building, expansion and conflict
Theme 4 – Creation, expansion and interactions of Economic Systems
Theme 5 – Development and transformation of social structures
Theme 6 - Technology and Innovation
Themes and AP World History:
The AP World History course is organized into five specific themes that will be the focal point of this course. The themes also provide a way to organize comparisons and analyze change and continuity over time, as well as comparative analysis between cultures.
Theme 1 – Interaction between humans and the environment
- Demography and disease,
- Migration
- Patterns of settlement
- Technology
Theme 2 – Development and Interaction of Cultures
- Religions
- Belief systems, philosophies, and ideologies
- Science and technology
- The arts and architecture
Theme 3 – State-building, expansion and conflict
- Political structures and forms of governance
- Empires
- Nations and nationalism
- Revolts and revolutions
- Regional, trans regional, and global structures and organizations
Theme 4 – Creation, expansion and interactions of Economic Systems
- Agricultural and pastoral production
- Trade and commerce
- Labor systems
- Industrialization
- Capitalism and Socialism
Theme 5 – Development and transformation of social structures
- Gender roles and relations
- Family and kinship
- Racial and ethnic constructions
- Social and economic classes
Theme 6 - Technology and Innovation
- Human adaption
- Security
- Technological advances shape human development
- Consequences that were intended and unintended, socially and environmentally.