Tuesday, May 13, 2014

Review for Exam part II



Continued....Remember Exam is Thursday May 15.  EVERYONE is expected to be there and on time.  Passes will be given out in class on Wednesday.

·      Global Interaction and Industrialization
o   Changes in production of goods
o   New patterns of trade, production leading to need for raw materials and new markets
o   Develop and expansion of financial institutions
o   New developments in transportation and communication (Railroads, steamship, telegraph…)
o   Responses to global capitalism
o   Changes in society due to industrialized states
o   Reasons for industrializing powers establishing transoceanic empires.
o   Influence of imperialism
o   Justification of imperialism (racial ideologies, Social Darwinism)
o   Rise of Enlightenment thought questioned tradition and preceded revolutions
o   National communities linked by borders, commonalities in language and religion.  Unification of diverse populations.
o   Enlightenment ideas leading to discontent with imperial power.
o   Global spread of Enlightenment
o   Migration of industrialized and unindustrialized societies
o   Reactions and consequences to large scale migration (especially 19th century) creating diverse societies
·      Accelerating Global Change and Realignments…1900 to present
o   Advances in science that spread throughout the world
o   Change in human relationship with the environment
o   Demographic shifts due to disease, innovation and conflict
o   Europe’s domination of the global political order in early 20th century
o   Dissolution of empires due to anti-imperialist ideologies
o   Political changes coinciding with demographic and social consequences
o   Military conflicts on a large scale
o   Conflicts of the 20th century…opposition as well as people who intensified it
o   Interdependence of states, communities and individuals
o   Cultural concept of society…challenging old assumptions and using new technologies to spread new tradition
o   Popular and consumer cultures

Friday, May 9, 2014

Review for Exam


AP Review:

Thinking Skills that you will need:
1.     Define a question about the past and construct an argument to address the question.  Describe, analyze and evaluate other arguments.
2.     Use, analyze, and evaluate diverse sources.  Extract information from various sources to draw appropriate conclusions.  Recognize the limitations of sources and assess POV.
3.     Analyze, identify and evaluate historical Cause and Effect.
4.     Recognize and evaluate historical patterns and relate them to historical themes.
5.     Identify historical turning points and relate them to regions, narratives, and peoples.
6.     Identify, describe and compare multiple historical developments within one society, between societies, within a chronological era, or geographic region.
7.     Connect historical developments to the specific circumstance of time or place.
8.     Use primary sources to interpret context and demonstrate historical reasoning.
9.     Apply historical thinking skills to arrive at a meaningful and persuasive understanding of the past. Collect diverse historical evidence from primary and secondary sources and fuse together for meaningful and persuasive argument.


Topics to know:
·      Technology and Environmental Transformation
o   Archeological evidence of Paleolithic period and gradual migration of people
o   Neolithic Revolution and the development of economic and social systems as well as growth of agriculture and pastoralism.
o   Development of civilizations, the first states, and the role of culture in unifying states.
·      Organization and Reorganization of Human Societies
o   Codifications and religious traditions that led to ethical codes to live by
o   Emergence and spread of new belief systems and cultural traditions
o   Effect of belief systems on Gender roles (ex. Buddhist  monastic life, Confucius’ filial piety)
o   Parallel of other religious and cultural traditions to codified, written belief systems
o   Examples of artistic expression that demonstrate cultural developments
o   Growth of empires brought about by imposing political unity
o   Development of new techniques for imperial administration
o   Political, cultural, and administrative problems of Roman, Han. Mauryam and Gupta that eventually led to their decline and collapse.
o   Land and water routes that facilitated transregional trade, communication and exchange while separate networks connected peoples of Americas later.
o   New technologies that facilitated long distance communication and exchange.
o   Exchange of ideas, technology, religion, cultural beliefs, food, animals, and disease brought about by vast trade networks.
·      Regional and transregional interaction
o   Expansion and intensification of communication and exchange leads to improve technologies and increased volume.
o   Movement caused environmental and linguistic (language) effects.
o   Continued diffusion of crops and pathogens throughout Eastern Hemisphere.
o   Collapse and reconstitution of empires, in some cases new states formed.
o   Interregional contacts and conflicts encouraged exchange of technology and culture. (ex. Tang China and Abbasids, Mongols, Crusades)
o   Innovations stimulated agriculture and industry.
o   Positive and negative issues involved in the rise of cities
o   Continuity and change in social structure, gender roles, and family life brought about by religious conversions and changes in labor management.

·      Global Interaction
o   New global exchange of goods intensified trade networks that brought prosperity as well as economic disruption to merchants and governments in the regions of Indian Ocean, Mediterranean, Sahara and Eurasia.
o   Technological developments in cartography and navigation in Europe built upon the innovations from Islamic and Asian worlds, as well as new understanding of winds and currents that made transoceanic trade and travel a possibility.
o   New circulation of goods, royal charters, Spanish exchange of silver, European monopolies and trade with Asia helped establish new trade practices.
o   New connections that developed the Columbia exchange.
o   Connection of Eastern and Western hemispheres  and increased interactions and expanded the reform of existing religions and create syncretic belief systems.
o   Visual and performing arts flourished with the increased profits of merchants and the increased taxes collected by the governments.
o   Agriculture changed, plantations grew, demand for labor increased; these changes fueled the growing global demand for raw materials and finished products.
o   As social and political structure changed, so did ethnic, racial, and gender hiearchies.
o   Rulers used various methods to consolidate and maintain power.
o   New weapons (gun powder, cannons,) and armed trade led to the establishment of large empires in both hemispheres.
o   Competition (ex. Piracy), state rivalries (ex. Thirty years’ war), and local resistance (ex. Bread riots) all challenged state consolidation and expansion.




More to come......