Advanced Placement World History Name

Summer Work, 2023-24

Due date: This packet must be completed in hard copy (be hand written) and submitted
on the first day of the 2022-3 academic year. Failure to turn in the summer
assignment on the first day will have a severe and irreversible impact on your
grade.

Course Overview—AP World History: Modern

AP World History: Modern is an introductory college-level modern world history course. Students cultivate
their understanding of world history from c. 1200 CE to the present through analyzing historical sources and
learning to make connections and craft historical arguments as they explore concepts like humans and the
environment, cultural developments and interactions, governance, economic systems, social interactions and
organization, and technology and innovation.

Assessment Overview – Exam Information

Exam date: Wednesday, May 15, 2024
-Go to https://apstudent.collegeboard.org/apcourse/ap-world-history for the complete course description.

The exam consists of 4 parts:

➢ 55 multiple-choice questions (55 minutes, 40 percent)
➢ Three short-answer questions (SAQs, 50 minutes, 20 percent)
➢ One document-based question (DBQ, 55 minutes, 25 percent)
➢ One long essay question (LEQ, 35 minutes, 15 percent)

Required Historical Thinking Skills and Reasoning Processes

The AP World History course and exam emphasize the development of thinking skills used by historians
and align with current scholarly perspectives on major issues in world history. The course is designed to
encourage you to become an apprentice historian that is able to use historical facts and evidence in order
to build deeper conceptual understandings of critical developments in world history. There are different
types of AP historical thinking skills and reasoning processes while learning about the past. They are:

1) Analyzing Historical Evidence (Developments & Processes, Sourcing & Situation, Claims &
Evidence, Contextualization, and Making Connections)
▪ Required to learn, understand, and apply historical content knowledge
▪ Read, analyze, and interpret text, quantitative data, visual sources, and artifacts in the same
way historians do when they study the past.

2) Argument Development (Argumentation)

▪ Make a historically defensible claim
▪ Support an argument using specific and relevant evidence
▪ Use historical reasoning to explain relationships among pieces of historical evidence
▪ Corroborate, qualify, or modify an argument using diverse and alternative evidence in order
to develop a complex argument.

3) Historical Reasoning
▪ Comparison
o Describe similarities and/or differences between different historical developments or
processes
o Explain relevant similarities and/or differences between specific historical
developments and processes
o Explain the relative historical significance of similarities and/or differences between
different historical developments or processes
 ▪ Causation
o Describe causes and/or effects of a specific historical development or process
o Explain the relationship between causes and effects of a specific historical
development or process
o Explain the difference between primary and secondary causes and between short-and
long-term effects
o Explain how a relevant context influenced a specific historical development or
process
o Explain the relative historical significance of different causes and/or effects
▪ Continuity and Change
o Describe patterns of continuity and/or change over time
o Explain patterns of continuity and/or change over time
o Explain the relative historical significance of specific historical developments in
relation to a larger pattern of continuity and/or change

Summarize in your own words what is expected of you as a student in AP World History?
Historical Themes and Periodization
Themes are the central concepts, which you as a student will frequently encounter throughout the course.
The themes are the connective tissue of the course and enable you as a student to create meaningful
connections across historical periods. There are six themes with four historical periods that span from 1250
to the present. The College Board wants to see if you understand these themes with respect to periodization
in the study of human history.
**Themes MUST be committed to memory. They are the basis for the historical thinking skills
in the MC and essay sections of the AP examination.**

Theme 1-Humans and the Environment (ENV)

Explanation: The environment shapes human societies and as populations grow and change, these populations in
turn shape their environments. This includes:
• Demography • Patterns of settlement
• Migration • Environmental impact

Theme 2-Cultural Developments and Interactions (CDI)

Explanation: The development of ideas, beliefs, and religions illustrates how groups in society view themselves, and
the interactions of societies and their beliefs often have political, social and cultural implications. This includes:
• Religions • Arts and architecture
• Belief systems and ideologies • The way groups in society view themselves
• Scientific ideas • Interactions of societies

Theme 3-Governance (GOV)

Explanation: A variety of internal and external factors contribute to state formation, expansion, and decline.
Governments maintain order through a variety of administrative institutions, policies, and procedures, and
governments obtain, retain, and exercise power in different ways and for different purposes. This includes:
• Internal/external factors that contribute to state • Administrative institutions/ policies/ procedures
formation/ expansion/ decline • Government methods to obtain/ retain/ exercise
• Maintenance of order power

Theme 4-Economic Systems (ECN)

Explanation: As societies develop, they affect and are affected by the ways that they produce, exchange, and
consume goods and services. This includes:
• Agriculture production • Industrialization
• Trade and commerce • Capitalism and socialism
• Labor systems

Theme 5-Social Interactions and Organization (SIO)

Explanation: The process by which societies group their members and the norms that govern the interactions
between these groups and between individuals influence political, economic and cultural institutions and
organization. This includes:
• Gender roles and relations • Racial and ethnic constructions
• Family and kinship • Social and economic classes

Theme 6-Technology and Innovation (TEC)

Explanation: Human adaptation and innovation have resulted in increased efficiency, comfort and security, and
technological advances have shaped human development and interactions with both intended and unintended
consequences.
• Increased efficiency, comfort, security • Racial and ethnic constructions
• Inventions with intended/ unintended • Social and economic classes
consequences
AP World: Modern Periodization
The updated course exam description (CED) organizes the course into 9 units structured by four
historical periods:

Units Historical Period Exam Weighting

(Periodization)
1. The Global Tapestry Period I 8 – 10%
ca. 1200 – ca. 1450
2. Networks of Exchange 8 - 10%

3. Land-Based Empires Period II 12 -15 %

ca. 1450 – ca. 1750
4. Transoceanic Interconnections 12 – 15%

5. Revolutions Period III 12 – 15%

ca. 1750 – ca. 1900
6. Consequences of Industrialization 12 – 15%

7. Global Conflict Period IV 8 - 10%

Ca. 1900 – the present
8. Cold War and Decolonization 8 - 10%

9. Globalization 8 - 10%

Transfer the AP World History periodization above onto the linear timeline by writing the
historical periods and units (write the name of the unit and number) where they fit below:

1200 1450 1750 1900

These AP time periods need to be memorized by the first day of school.

AP World History Important Dates with Periodization Practice
These dates should be largely committed to memory. On the line provided, identify the correct AP period
and date range.

Pre-1200 B.C.E ___________________________________________

8000 B.C.E. - Beginnings of agriculture Industrial Revolution
3000 B.C.E. - Beginnings of Bronze Age - early civ’s 1756-1763 -7 years war/French and Indian War
th
18 C B.C.E.-Hammurabi’s Code 1776 - American Rev. / Smith, Wealth of Nations
1500 B.C.E.-Early alphabetic script 1789 - French Revolution
1300 B.C.E. - Iron Age 1804 - Haitian independence
th th
10 -7 C B.C.E. Assyrian Empire 1815 - Congress of Vienna
6th century B.C.E. - life of Buddha, Confucius, Lao 1820s- Independence in Latin America
Tsu (beginnings of Confucianism, Buddhism,Taosim) 1839 - 1st opium war in China
5th C B.C.E. - Greek Golden Age - philosophers. 323 1848 - European revolutions/Marx & Engles write
B.C.E. - Alexander the Great Communist Manifesto
221 B.C.E. - Qin unified China 1853- Commodore Perry opens Japan
32 C.E. - Beginnings of Christianity 1857- Sepoy Mutiny
180 C.E. - end of Pax Romana 1861- end of Russian serfdom/Italian unification
220 C.E. - end of Han Dynasty 1863 - Emancipation Proclamation in US
333 - Roman capital moved to Constantinople 4th 1871- German unification
C - Beginning of Trans-Saharan Trade Routes 1885 - Berlin Conference - division of Africa
476 - Fall of Rome 1898 - Spanish-American War - US acquires
527 - Justinian rule of Byzantine Empire Philippines, Cuba, Guam, & Puerto Rico
632 - Rise of Islam 1899 - Boer War - British in control of South Africa
732 - Battle of Tours (end of Muslim move into
France) ___________________________________________
1054 - 1st Schism in Christian Church 1905 - Russo-Japanese war
1066 - Norman conquest of England 1910 -1920 - Mexican Revolution
1071 - Battle of Manzikert (Seljuk Turks defeat Byz) 1911- Chinese Revolution
1095 - 1st Crusade 1914 - WWI
1917 - Russian Revolution
___________________________________________ 1919 - Treaty of Versailles - end of WWI
1929 - stock market crash
1258 - Mongols sack Baghdad
1931 - Japanese invasion of Manchuria
1271-1295 - Marco Polo travels
1935 - Italian invasion of Ethiopia
1324 - Mansa Musa’s pilgrimage
1939 - German blitzkrieg in Poland
1325-1349 - travels of Ibn Battuta 1941 - Pearl Harbor, entry of US into WWII
1347-1348 - Bubonic plague in Europe 1945 - end of WWII
1433 - end of Zheng He’s voyages/Rise of Ottomans 1947 - independence & partition of India
1948 - birth of Israel
___________________________________________ 1949 - Chinese Communist Revolution
1453 - Ottomans capture Constantinople 1950-1953 - Korean War
1488 - Dias rounded Cape of Good Hope 1954 - Vietnamese defeat French at Dien Bien Phu
1492 - Columbus sails/ Reconquista of Spain 1956 - de-Stalinization/nationalization of Suez Canal
1502 - Slaves to Americas 1959 - Cuban Revolution
1517 - Martin Luther/95 theses 1962 - Cuban missile crisis
1521- Cortez conquered the Aztecs 1967 - 6-day war/Chinese Cultural Revolution
1533- Pizarro toppled the Inca 1973 - Yom Kippur war
1571 - Battle of Lepanto, (naval defeat of Ottomans) 1979 - Iranian Revolution
1588 - defeat of the Spanish Armada by the British 1987 - 1st Palestinian Intifada
1600 - Battle of Sekigahara - beginning of 1989 - Tiananmen Square/fall of Berlin Wall
Tokugawa 1607 - foundation of Jamestown 1991 - fall of USSR/1st Gulf war
1618-1648 - 30 years war 1994 - genocide in Rwanda/1st all-race elections in S.
1683- unsuccessful Ottoman siege of Vienna Africa
2001 - 9/11 Attacks
1689 - Glorious Revolution/English Bill of Rights
Part I-Location, location, location
Map #1: Regions
Global regions are from the College Board and both maps must be committed to memory.
AP World Regional Challenge—Do you recall the regions? Label the map below.
 World Religions Comparison Chart

Religion Hinduism Buddhism Judaism Confucianism Daoism

Place of
Origin with
approximate
dates

Spiritual
Founder(s)

Sacred
Text(s)

Beliefs and
Goals

Methods of
worship –
Cultural
aspects of
religion such
as art

Interaction
of the
religion with
social
structure or
political
agency (ie:
State)
Answer the focus questions utilizing vocabulary terms from the list below: a. What is
“civilization”? b. Who is “civilized”? c. Does change occur by diffusion or independent invention?
(There are three parts to the question)
Key Terms:
(It is HIGHLY recommended you define terms you are unfamiliar with and include the definitions in
the submission of your summer packet)

Stone Age Neolithic revolutions urban societies

specialization of labor divination Confucianism
surplus labor Zoroastrianism Daoism
Vedic Religion Mandate of Heaven Book of the Dead
papyrus agricultural societies patriarchy
Cuneiform legalism city-state
hunting-foraging peoples Epic of Gilgamesh Iron Age
metallurgy core/foundational Civilizations Hieroglyphs
Hammurabi pastoral societies pictograph
Hebrew monotheism (Judaism) Rig Veda alphabets
civilization cultural hearth

a.

b.

c.
AP World History—Short Answer Questions (SAQs)
1. Use the map below and your knowledge of world history to answer all parts of the question that
follows.

Global Locations of Ancient River Valley Civilizations, 8.000BCE - 600 BCE

Source: http://www.freeman-pedia.com/foundations-to-600-bce/

a) Identify and explain TWO factors

before 600 BCE that account for
the global pattern of early agricultural
communities shown on the map above.

b) Using both maps, identify and

explain ONE reason why the Eastern
Hemisphere advanced in complexity
more quickly than the Western
Hemisphere approaching 600 BCE?

Soucre: http://www.worldatlas.com/aatlas/hemispheres.htm

a)
 b)

2. Answer all parts of the question that follows.

Identify and explain THREE ways in which rulers legitimized or consolidated their power during the period
1800 BCE – 1200 CE. Use specific examples from one or more states or empires. (Be mindful of the time
frame)

1)

2)
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Part II—Reading
In addition to the map exercises you must read the book A History of the World in 6 Glasses (2006) by Tom
Standage. You should have notes in the margin (i.e.: marginalia) when I examine your copy in September. The
point is to be a critical reader not a passive one. If you do not read the book and scribble notes in the margin this
speaks volumes about your character. [There are PDF/ digital versions of the book – if you choose to use a
digital version, you MUST be able to show evidence of note taking/ annotations]

The book is readily available for purchase on the internet. If you have problems procuring a
personal copy contact Mr. DiGiovacchino in July for a copy mark.digiovacchino@edison.k12.nj.us

Directions Part I: Thematic Charts with Questions

Since the AP World History course is designed around 6 major themes that consistently occur in
each time period (1-4) after reading A History of the World in Six Glasses you need to identify at
least three examples where the trajectory of the beverage coincides with the AP theme (all boxes
of each chart should be filled in). Importantly, you must cite page number(s) from the book
pinpointing where your information is from. (e.g.: p. 35). Failure to provide a page citation will
result in no credit awarded for that chart.

Deadline Reminder for Summer Work

Summer work is expected to be

completed on the first day of class in
September, when it will be collected.

Please contact the department with any concerns.

Best,

Edison High School Social Studies Department

 Theme 1: Theme 2: Theme 3: Theme 4: Theme 5: Theme 6:
Humans and the Cultural Governance Economic Social Technology and

Beer Environment Developments

and Interactions
Systems Interactions and
Organization
Innovation

Example
1

Example
2

Example
3

How does identifying the themes aid in your overall understanding of the impact BEER played in civilizations? (i.e.: discuss the
evolution of the beverage over the six themes)
Chapters 1-2
1. How is the discovery of beer linked to the growth of the first “civilizations”?

2. What were some of the uses of beer by ancient cultures? (Nourishment? Ritual? Religious?)

3. How did beer “civilize” man, according to the author?

4. What is the relationship between beer and writing?

 Theme 1: Theme 2: Theme 3: Theme 4: Theme 5: Theme 6:
Humans and the Cultural Governance Economic Social Technology and

Wine Environment Developments

and Interactions
Systems Interactions and
Organization
Innovation

Example
1

Example
2

Example
3

How does identifying the themes aid in your overall understanding of the impact wine played in civilizations? (i.e.: discuss the
evolution of the beverage over the six themes)
Chapters 3-4
5. How did the use of wine differ from that of beer in ancient Greece and Rome?

6. How and why did wine develop into a form of a status symbol in Greece?

7. How did the use of wine in Roman culture differ from that of ancient Greece?

8. What is the relationship between wine and empire?

 Theme 1: Theme 2: Theme 3: Theme 4: Theme 5: Theme 6:
Humans and the Cultural Governance Economic Social Technology and

Spirits Environment Developments Systems Interactions and Innovation

and Interactions Organization

Example
1

Example
2

Example
3

How does identifying the themes aid in your overall understanding of the impact spirits played in civilizations? (i.e.: discuss the
evolution of the beverage over the six themes)
Chapters 5-6
9. Briefly describe the origin of distilled spirits?

10. What is the connection between spirits and slavery?

11. Why were spirits an important staple in Colonial America and how did rum play a role in the American Revolution?

12. What were the negative effects/uses of spirits? (Use entire chapter to answer this)
 Theme 1: Theme 2: Theme 3: Theme 4: Theme 5: Theme 6:
Humans and the Cultural Governance Economic Social Technology and

Coffee Environment Developments Systems Interactions and Innovation

and Interactions Organization

Example
1

Example
2

Example
3

How does identifying the themes aid in your overall understanding of the impact coffee played in civilizations? (i.e.: discuss
the evolution of the beverage over the six themes)
Chapter 7-8
13. Answer briefly, from whom did the Europeans get coffee and how did it spread to Europe?

14. Why was it so important to Europe’s development that many people’s beverage of choice switched from alcohol to coffee?

15. Describe coffee’s role in the Scientific Revolution.

16. Describe coffee’s role in the French Revolution.

 Theme 1: Theme 2: Theme 3: Theme 4: Theme 5: Theme 6:

Tea
Humans and the Cultural Governance Economic Social Technology and
Environment Developments Systems Interactions and Innovation
and Interactions Organization

Example
1

Example
2

Example
3

How does identifying the themes aid in your overall understanding of the impact tea played in civilizations? (i.e.: discuss the
evolution of the beverage over the six themes)
Chapters 9-10
17. When did tea first become a mainstream drink in Asia? In Europe?

18. If tea arrived in Europe around the same time as when coffee did, why did it not find the immediate success that coffee had?

19. How was tea an integral part of the Industrial Revolution?

20. What role did the tea trade and production play in the British rule over India?
 Theme 1: Theme 2: Theme 3: Theme 4: Theme 5: Theme 6:
Coca Humans and the
Environment
Cultural
Developments
Governance Economic
Systems
Social
Interactions and
Technology and
Innovation

-­­Cola
and Interactions Organization

Example
1

Example
2

Example
3

How does identifying the themes aid in your overall understanding of the impact Coca-Cola played in civilizations? (i.e.:
discuss the evolution of the beverage over the six themes)
Chapters 11-12
21. What was the origin of coke, was it used medicinally and what were the additives?

22. What was the relationship of coke and World War II?…. and the Cold War?

23. What is meant by “globalization in a bottle”?

24. How did Coca Cola become basically seen as an American value? How did this help
and hurt Coca Cola (and, in some ways, America itself?)
 Theme 1: Theme 2: Theme 3: Theme 4: Theme 5: Theme 6:
Humans and the Cultural Governance Economic Social Technology and

Water Environment Developments

and Interactions
Systems Interactions and
Organization
Innovation

Example
1

Example
2

Example
3

How does identifying the themes aid in your overall understanding of the impact Water played in civilizations? (i.e.: discuss
the evolution of the beverage over the six themes)
Epilogue
25. Describe how the scientific advancements of the 19th century brought the history of beverages full circle.

26. How many people have no access to safe water today?

27. How has access to water affected international relations?

Directions Part II: Final Analysis

To demonstrate how reading A History of the World in 6 Glasses has changed your perspective
of world history, complete the following assignment:

Draw a map of the world that depicts the origin, and subsequent travels, of one of the six
beverages from A History of the World in 6 Glasses. Make sure to label the location and use
vector arrows to note the direction of its journey. Additionally, place the AP Modern world
history date breaks on the timeline and note where the particular beverage is found during that
time period.
Describe and explain, with salient details, the journey of the beverage you chose to depict on the map and timeline.