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......
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