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Study Group Discussions for Chapter 24

January 28th, 2012 by · No Comments · AP World History

In your Study Group you should ALWAYS do the following:

  1. Review the chapter – ask each other questions about material(s) you did not understand.
  2. Help each other on your textbook notes: compare thesis and evidence.
  3. Challenge each other using your Note Cards.
  4. Look for similarities in this chapter to other time periods in world history.
  5. Use the question prompts I have posted to focus some of your review (here are a few question prompts for Chapter 24).
    • Frameworks: Examine British and French attempts to “open up” the Chinese market during the 19th century.
    • Frameworks: Examine how British and French exercised economic imperialism through the Opium War.
    • Frameworks: Examine how Egypt achieved semi-independence as the Ottoman Empire began to contract.
    • Frameworks: Examine how religious ideas influenced the Taiping Rebellion.
    • Frameworks: Examine what brought about the Tanzimat movement in the Ottoman empire.
    • ‘Change over Time: How did women’s status in Russia, China and the Ottoman Empire change in the 19th century?
    • Change over Time: Discuss Russia’s growth and relationship with Europe during the 19th century.  What countries influenced Russia, and how did Russia interact with them?
    • Change over Time: Choose one of the following empires and chronicle how its relationship with western Europe developed from 1750-1914: Ottoman, Chinese, or Russian.
    • Compare and Contrast: two of the following empires interactions with the west from 1750-1914: Ottoman, Chinese, or Russian.
    • Compare and Contrast: the success of reform efforts in the Ottoman Empire, Russia and China prior to 1914.
    • Compare and Contrast: women’s rights in one of the following areas to western Europe  during the 19th century: Ottoman, Chinese, or Russian.

Study Group Discussions for Chapter 23

January 28th, 2012 by · No Comments · AP World History

In your Study Group you should ALWAYS do the following:

  1. Review the chapter – ask each other questions about material(s) you did not understand.
  2. Help each other on your textbook notes: compare thesis and evidence.
  3. Challenge each other using your Note Cards.
  4. Look for similarities in this chapter to other time periods in world history.
  5. Use the question prompts I have posted to focus some of your review (here are a few question prompts for Chapter 23).
    • Change over Time: How did population growth, economic expansion and new technologies change the environments of the Americas in the 19th century?
    • Change over Time: How did women’s role in society change from 1750 to 1914 as the Americas’ political status moved from colonial to sovereign nation?
    • Change over Time: How was the American environment changed during the 19th and early 20th centuries?  What benefits did people gain from manipulating the environment?  What problems did such manipulation cause?
    • Change over Time: What political, economic, and social roles did migration play in the Americas during the 19th century?  What changes did migration make on society in the Americas.
    • Change over Time: How did women’s role in society change from 1750 to 1914 as the Americas’ political status moved from colonial to sovereign nation?
    • Compare & Contrast: the abolitionist movements in North America and the Caribbean.
    • Compare & Contrast: the careers and rise of three political leaders, choosing them from both North and Latin America.
    • Compare & Contrast: European and non-European immigration to the Americas.  Why did these immigrants come, and how were they received by people already living in the United States.
    • Compare & Contrast: the outcome and legacy of two Latin American independence movements.
    • Compare & Contrast: the impact of constitutions for different regions on the native peoples, women, and slaves/former slaves.

Chapter 18 Quiz Review

January 20th, 2012 by · No Comments · AP World History

I am going to come in Saturday (21 January) and open my room from 2-4 PM to allow those that want to review the Quiz to do so before Monday.  Please pass the word to those you know and have them pass the word along as well.

=Mr. C

Study Group Discussions for Chapter 22

January 19th, 2012 by · No Comments · AP World History

In your Study Group you should ALWAYS do the following:

  1. Review the chapter – ask each other questions about material(s) you did not understand.
  2. Help each other on your textbook notes: compare thesis and evidence.
  3. Challenge each other using your Note Cards.
  4. Look for similarities in this chapter to other time periods in world history.
  5. Use the question prompts I have posted to focus some of your review (here are a few question prompts for Chapter 22).
    • Frameworks: Examine the role that the rapid development of industrial production had on the decline of textile production in India.
    • Frameworks: Examine Muhammad Ali’s development of a cotton industry in Egypt as a state-sponsored vision of industrialization.
    • Frameworks: Examine the role that  each of these played on women’s suffrage and an emergent feminism.
      • 1791 – Olympe de Gouges’s “Declaration of the rights of Women and the Female Citizen”.  Not in your textbook.
      • 1792 – Mary Wollstonecraft’s ”A Vindication of the Rights of Woman”.  Chapter 22 in your textbook.
      • 1848 – The resolutions passed at the Seneca Falls Conference.  Chapter 23 in your textbook.
    • Change over Time: Many historian have asserted that the steam engine was the single most important invention of the Industrial Revolution.  How did the invention of the steam engine change and impact the economic and technological structures of society
    • Change over Time: How did industrialization change urban life?  Was it more positive or negative?
    • Change over Time: Discuss the revolutions in transportation and communication brought about by the Industrial Revolution.
    • Compare & Contrast: the various philosophies, such as those of Smith, Malthus, Ricardo, Bentham, List, Saint-Simon, Fourier, and Owen, in relation to laissez-faire capitalism.
    • Compare & Contrast: industrialism’s development in Britain with those of different areas of the world discussed in the chapter.
    • Compare & Contrast: the impact of the Industrial Revolution on different groups of people: the worker, middle class, women or children.  What was the social cost of the Industrial Revolution?

Study Group Discussions for Chapter 21

January 17th, 2012 by · No Comments · AP World History

In your Study Group you should ALWAYS do the following:

  1. Review the chapter – ask each other questions about material(s) you did not understand.
  2. Help each other on your textbook notes: compare thesis and evidence.
  3. Challenge each other using your Note Cards.
  4. Look for similarities in this chapter to other time periods in world history.
  5. Use the question prompts I have posted to focus some of your review (here are a few question prompts for Chapter 21).
    • Frameworks: Examine the impact and reasons behind the food riots in France leading up to the French Revolution.
    • Frameworks: Examine how Voltaire, Rousseau, Locke, and Montesquieu applied new ways of understanding the natural world to human relationships and develop new political ideas about individual, natural rights and the social contract.
    • Change over time: Why was the American Revolution fought, and how did society in the former colonies change as a result?
    • Change over time: How was French Society changed by the French Revolution? Was the outcome of the revolution all the revolutionaries had hoped for?  What legacy did it leave the world?
    •  Change over time: How did women’s lives changed (and did not change) during the “Age of Revolutions” ?
    • Compare & Contrast: the degree to which American, French and Haitian Revolutions achieved their goals.
    • Compare & Contrast: the demands of the various Revolutions of 1848.

Snow Schedule: Week of 16 January

January 17th, 2012 by · No Comments · AP World History, World History

Regular/Honors World History – this is a review week for next weeks final, so review chapters 1-10 in your text books.

ATTENTION: The district has decided today to move finals to 3/4 February, due to the snow days, so the schedule will shift a week.

AP World – your schedule is a little more tricky.  Check this daily and I will update it accordingly.  Here is how it is going to play out:

  • 17 January, Tuesday - Snow Day – Chapter 18 Reading Quiz & Illustrations.
  • 18 January, Wednesday – Snow Day - Review chapter 17  Please review Chapter 17 PowerPoint online.  If you do not have PowerPoint on your home computer, you can download a viewer for free online.  As you go through the PowerPoint, if I bring up something that you don’t know, crack open your book and review it.  My PowerPoint’s follow the book, so it shouldn’t be hard to find the info.  Remember to review your cards and read “Fast Track to a 5″ in between your trips outside to play in the snow.
  • 19 January, Thursday – Snow Day.  Keep in mind the final next week covers chapters 1-18 and the multiple choice questions come from another AP World textbook.  So the questions will be different questions on the some stuff.  Use these snow days as excellent review days.  
  • 20 January, Friday – Snow Day – Again…
  • 21 January, Saturday – 2-4 PM, my room, Quiz 18 Review Session.  I will have the doors by my room open.  Please Pass The Word!
  • 23 January, Monday – Chapter 18 Quiz – Note cards due
  • 24 January, Tuesday - Change over time outline due.  Change over time exercise with written/timed prompts on tea and review chapter 18 quiz before/after school.
  • 25 January, Wednesday - Reading Quiz & Illustrations Chapter 19
  • 26 January, Thursday – Review Chapter 18
  • 27 January,Friday – Quiz Chapter 19 – Note cards due
  • 30 January, Monday – Review Chapter 19
  • 31 January, Tuesday - Final Exam (chapters 1-18) - DBQ Essay
  • 1 February, Wednesday - Final Exam (chapters 1-18) - Compare & Contrast Essay
  • 2/3 February, Thursday/Friday - Final Exam (chapters 1-18) - Multiple choice questions & Change over Time Essay

Study Group Discussions for Chapter 20

January 14th, 2012 by · No Comments · AP World History

In your Study Group you should ALWAYS do the following:

  1. Review the chapter – ask each other questions about material(s) you did not understand.
  2. Help each other on your textbook notes: compare thesis and evidence.
  3. Challenge each other using your Note Cards.
  4. Look for similarities in this chapter to other time periods in world history.
  5. Use the question prompts I have posted to focus some of your review (here are a few question prompts for Chapter 20).
    • Frameworks: Examine the intensification of peasant labor in the development of frontier settlements in Russian Siberia.
    • Frameworks: Examine the political and economic power exercised by the Daimyo of Japan.
    • Frameworks: Examine the Manchu policies toward the Chinese.
    • Frameworks: Examine the development of salaried samurai as military professionals.
    • Frameworks: Examine the revolt of the samurai.
    • Change over Time: How did Confucianism change during this era?
    • Change over Time: How does the world economic system of 1800 compare with 1492 CE?  What changes have occurred, and what continuities have persisted?
    • Change over Time: How did the relationship between the Chinese and the Jesuits develop from 1500 to 1800 CE?
    • Change over Time: Explain how the European relationship with China changed from astonishment and admiration to criticism and frustration?
    • Compare & Contrast: Compare the centralization practices of the Tokugawa Shogunate with those of Peter the Great’s attempts to centralize power in Russia. How did resentment of the local nobility affect these attempts?
    • Compare & Contrast: Did Peter really earn the title “The Great” as the first emperor of Russia? How does his reign compare with that of earlier tsars? Consider the focus of the earlier tsars on Muscovy, while Peter’s focus was on a Russian empire; how did this new emphasis affect Russia and the reception of the tsar?
    • Compare & Contrast: How do the land-based empires of Ming and Qing China and Russia compare with the sea-based European empires (i.e. Portugal, Spain, England) studied in earlier chapters?
    • Compare & Contrast: the interaction of any of the following countries with the West up until 1800 CE: Russia, China, Tokugawa Japan.
    • Compare & Contrast: the Chinese and Japanese response to European influence.
    • Compare & Contrast: the British naval-based empire to either Russia or China’s land-based empire.

Study Group Discussion for Chapter 19

January 14th, 2012 by · No Comments · AP World History

In your Study Group you should ALWAYS do the following:

  1. Review the chapter – ask each other questions about material(s) you did not understand.
  2. Help each other on your textbook notes: compare thesis and evidence.
  3. Challenge each other using your Note Cards.
  4. Look for similarities in this chapter to other time periods in world history.
  5. Use the question prompts I have posted to focus some of your review (here are a few question prompts for Chapter 19).
    • Frameworks: Examine the Safavid use of Shiism as an idea to legitimize their rule.
    • Frameworks: Examine Ottoman treatment of non-Muslim subjects in ways that utilized their economic contribution while limiting their ability to challenge the authority of the state.
    • Frameworks: Examine the Ottoman devshirme system to develop military professionals.
    • Frameworks: Examine the Omani-European economic rivalry in the Indian Ocean.
    • Frameworks: Examine the Ottoman-Safavid conflict/rivalry.
    • Change over Time: Describe the factors that encouraged the development of the Indian Ocean trade and eventually allowed Europeans to gain control of this trade from 1200 to 1750 CE (you may need to revisit chapter 13).
    • Change over Time: What technological innovations changed the balance of power between European and Asian Muslim states from 1500-1750 CE?
    • Compare & Contrast: Compare the rise and decline of the three Muslim Empires discussed in this chapter: the Ottoman, the Safavid, and the Mughal.
    • Compare and Contrast: religious tensions in the Ottoman, the Safavid, and the Mughal empires.
    • Compare & Contrast: the cities of Istanbul and Isfahan.  How did they reflect the greater empires of which they were the capitals?
    • Compare & Contrast: Ottoman Turkey’s to Mughal India’s interaction with the West up until 1750 CE.

Map for Chapter 10

January 9th, 2012 by · No Comments · Honors World, World History

The following locations will be on the Chapter 10 Quiz.  The bolded ones at the end are Extra Credit!

  • Austria
  • Belgium
  • Czech Republic
  • Denmark
  • France
  • Germany
  • Greece
  • Hungary
  • Iceland
  • Ireland
  • Italy
  • Netherlands
  • Poland
  • Portugal
  • Romania
  • Russia
  • Slovakia
  • Spain
  • Sweden
  • Switzerland
  • Turkey
  • Ukraine
  • Baltic Sea
  • Black Sea
  • Bosnia-Herzegovina
  • Croatia
  • Serbia

Chinese Dynasty Song

January 2nd, 2012 by · No Comments · AP World History

French Version:

Frere Jacques, Frere Jacques,

Dormez-vous? Dormez-vous?

Sonnez les matines, sonnez les matines

Ding ding dong, ding ding dong.

 English Version:

Are you sleeping, are you sleeping?

Brother John, Brother John?

Morning bells are ringing, morning bells are ringing

Ding ding dong, ding ding dong.

  Chinese Dynasty Song

 Shang, Zhou (joe), Qin (chin), Han (hahn)

Shang, Zhou (joe), Qin (chin), Han (hahn)

 

Sui (sway), Tang, Song (soong)

Sui (sway), Tang, Song (soong)

 

Yuan (yooan), Ming, Qing (ching), Republic

Yuan (yooan), Ming, Qing (ching), Republic

 

Mao, Deng, Hu (who)

Mao, Deng, Hu (who)

Study Group Discussions for Chapter 18

December 29th, 2011 by · No Comments · AP World History

In your Study Group you should ALWAYS do the following:

  1. Review the chapter – ask each other questions about material(s) you did not understand.
  2. Help each other on your textbook notes: compare thesis and evidence.
  3. Challenge each other using your Note Cards.
  4. Look for similarities in this chapter to other time periods in world history.
  5. Use the question prompts I have posted to focus some of your review (here are a few question prompts for Chapter 18).
    • Frameworks: Examine how the establishment of Maroon societies challenged existing authorities in the Americas.
    • Change over Time: How did the various economic institutions in the systems of capitalism and mercantilism contribute to the development of the Atlantic system and the slave trade?
    • Change over Time: How did the global trade network change from 1500 to 1800 CE?
    • Change over Time: How did the Atlantic System impact countries that were involved?  What was the system’s legacy?
    • Compare & Contrast: Christian and Muslim influence in Africa.
    • Compare & Contrast: the societies of Europe with the societies in the New World that the Europeans had set up.
    • How did Europeans in Africa, in an era before outright conquest of the continent, impact the African economy?

2012 News

December 28th, 2011 by · No Comments · AP World History

To my AP Students: Happy New Year!

A few subtle changes lie in store for the new year:

  • Notes: Although you should still take notes, I will no longer be checking notes on a weekly basis.  I will check them in bulk periodically (once a month).  You will still need to bring your notes and five questions to class to use for your illustrations.
  • Timed Quzzes: Reading quizzes and regular quizzes will now be timed events compatible with the AP exam (45 seconds per multiple choice).  So reading quizzes will be about 9 minutes long.  Chapter quizzes will be timed according to the number of questions.
  • Semester One Exam: There will be an end of the Semester One Exam modeled after the AP exam.   I was toying with the idea of not having one, but after reading some AP articles and talking with other AP teachers, I will have one as scheduled (in the syllabus) with all the other semester one exams at the end of January.   The exam will encompass Chapters 1-18.
  • Essays: We will begin to work more Compare-Contrast and Change over Time essays on Mondays or Wednesdays.  Watch the schedule on the board to know when to be ready.  The essay prompts will come directly off the blog, from any of the chapters covered so far, but which one will be unknown until the day of the essay and the prompt given to one period will not be the same prompt given to the other period.  Make sure you know the basic components in each type of essay so you can jot down an outline quickly when needed.

Study Group Discussions for Chapter 17

December 22nd, 2011 by · No Comments · AP World History

In your Study Group you should ALWAYS do the following:

  1. Review the chapter – ask each other questions about material(s) you did not understand.
  2. Help each other on your textbook notes: compare thesis and evidence.
  3. Challenge each other using your Note Cards.
  4. Look for similarities in this chapter to other time periods in world history.
  5. Use the question prompts I have posted to focus some of your review (here are a few question prompts for Chapter 17).
    • Frameworks: Examine the impact on Europe of the following American foods: potatoes, maize, manioc.
    • Frameworks: Examine the impact on the Americas of the following cash crops: sugar and tobacco.
    • Frameworks: Examine the impact on the Americas of the following foods brought by African slaves: okra and rice.
    • Frameworks: Examine the impact on the Americas of the following domesticated animals: horses, pigs, and cattle.
    • Frameworks: Examine the impact on the Americas of one of the following coerced labor sources: indentured servitude, encomienda systems, and the Spanish adaptation of the Inca mit’a.
    • Frameworks: Examine the conquests and widening economic opportunities the contributed to the formation of the Creole elites in Spanish America.
    • Frameworks: Examine the massive demographic changes in the Americas that resulted from the new ethnic and racial classifications: mestizo, mulatto, and creole.
    • Frameworks: Examine the impact of indentured servitude on the colonial economies of America.
    • Change over Time: Examine Spanish, Portuguese, French, and British uses of Christianity as a tool of colonization.  How did the Catholic church’s goals, methods, and influence on American society develop from 1530-1770?
    • Compare & Contrast: Why the English and French did not colonize the Americas until almost a century after the Spanish and Portuguese.
    • Compare & Contrast: Discuss the differences in colonial management practiced by the European states in the Americas (different levels of governmental and effect on the social structure).
    • Compare & Contrast: How were the French and English colonies both similar to and different from those of Spain and Portugal?

Study Group Discussions for Chapter 16

December 22nd, 2011 by · No Comments · AP World History

In your Study Group you should ALWAYS do the following:

  1. Review the chapter – ask each other questions about material(s) you did not understand.
  2. Help each other on your textbook notes: compare thesis and evidence.
  3. Challenge each other using your Note Cards.
  4. Look for similarities in this chapter to other time periods in world history.
  5. Use the question prompts I have posted to focus some of your review (here are a few question prompts for Chapter 16).
    • Frameworks: Examine how the power of the nobility in Europe changed as they confronted new challenges to their ability to affect the policies of the increasing powerful monarchs and leaders.
    • Frameworks: Examine how rulers continued to use religious ideas to legitimize their rule, including the European notion of divine right.
    • Frameworks: Examine the conquests and widening economic opportunities the contributed to the formation of the European Gentry.
    • Frameworks: Examine the gender and family restructuring that took place, resulting in the smaller size of European families (pg 472-3).
    • Frameworks: Examine the significant challenges to state consolidation and expansion during the 30 Year War (pg 478).
    • Change over Time: How did Martin Luther’s beliefs challenge the views of the Catholic Church, and how did those challenges change the Catholic Church?
    • Change over Time: Discuss the major ideas of the Enlightenment, and describe their impact on European government, education, and safety.
    • Change over Time: How did the feudal states of medieval Europe slowly evolve into absolute monarchies?
    • Compare & Contrast: Compare the roles women played in peasant and ruling-class households.
    • Compare & Contrast: Describe the rise of the Netherlands in the 17th and 18th centuries, and compare & contrast Dutch policies with those of other European powers.

Map for Chpt 9

December 12th, 2011 by · No Comments · Honors World, World History

The following cities/countries will be on the Chapter 9 Quiz.

  • Belgium
  • England
  • Germany
  • Italy
  • Poland
  • Spain

Extra Credit

  • Berlin
  • Denmark
  • Finland
  • Iceland
  • Ireland
  • London
  • Scotland
  • Madrid
  • Milan
  •  Netherlands
  • Norway
  • Paris
  • Prague
  • Rome
  • Sardinia
  • Sicily
  • Sweden
  • Warsaw

Study Group Discussions for Chapters 14-15

November 28th, 2011 by · No Comments · AP World History

In your Study Group you should ALWAYS do the following:

  1. Review the chapter – ask each other questions about material(s) you did not understand.
  2. Help each other on your textbook notes: compare thesis and evidence.
  3. Challenge each other using your Note Cards.
  4. Look for similarities in this chapter to other time periods in world history.
  5. Use the question prompts I have posted to focus some of your review (here are a few question prompts for Chapters 14-15).
    • Frameworks: Examine the effects of the new forms of credit and monetization encouraged the growth of inter-regional trade in luxury goods.
    • Frameworks: Examine the effects of the new significant innovations in previously existing transportation and commercial technologies (Caravel, astrolabe, and larger ship designs) encouraged the growth of inter-regional trade in luxury goods.
    • Frameworks: Examine the impact to commercial growth brought about by the Hanseatic League.
    • Frameworks: Examine the maritime migrations and environmental impact of the Polynesian peoples who cultivated transplanted foods and domesticated animals as they moved to new islands.
    • Frameworks: How did the return of Greek science and philosophy to Western Europe (via Muslim al-Andalus in Iberia) cause a diffusion of scientific and technological traditions?
    • Frameworks: Examine the innovations in visual and performing arts found in Renaissance art in Europe.
    • Change over Time: How did Europe benefit from cultural borrowing?  from Whom did they borrow and what was borrowed?
    • Change over Time: Trace the growth of European industry, technology, and trade in the Middle Ages through the development of the textile industry.
    • Change over Time: What impact did the Black death have on political, economic, and social structures in Europe?
    • Change over Time: Describe the role of the Portuguese in the Indian Ocean trading network from 1498 through the 1500′s.
    • Compare and Contrast: Sub-Saharan Africa’s and Europe’s interaction with the Islamic world.
    • Compare and Contrast: Why were Europeans so much more successful in establishing territorial empires in the Americas than in Africa and Asia?
    • Compare and Contrast: Compare Ming China’s and Europe’s attitudes and actions toward exploration from 1400 to 1550 CE.

Study Group Discussion for chapter 13

November 28th, 2011 by · No Comments · AP World History

In your Study Group you should ALWAYS do the following:

  1. Review the chapter – ask each other questions about stuff you did not understand.
  2. Help each other on your textbook notes: compare thesis and evidence.
  3. Challenge each other using your Note Cards.
  4. Look for similarities in this chapter to other time periods in world history.
  5. Use the question prompts I have posted to focus some of your review (here are a few question prompts for Chapter 13).
    • Frameworks: How did innovations in maritime technologies such as Dhow ships and advanced knowledge of the monsoon winds stimulate exchanges along the maritime routes between East Africa and East Asia?
    • Frameworks: Examine the role that trade played in the development of the following cities: Timbuktu, the Swahili city-states, Calicut, and Malacca.
    • Frameworks: Examine the impact of Muslim merchant communities in the Indian Ocean region and Sub-Sahara Africa.
    • Frameworks: Examine how the writings of Ibn Battuta or Marco Polo illustrate the limitations of intercultural knowledge and understanding.
    • Frameworks: How did Islam impact the diffusion of literary, artistic and cultural traditions in Sub-Saharan Africa and SE Asia
    • Frameworks: Examine the organization, power and influence of the city-states along the Eastern African Coast.
    • Frameworks: Examine the legend surrounding Sundiata.

Map for Chapter 8

November 20th, 2011 by · No Comments · Honors World, World History

Locate the following countries that will be on the chapter 8 Quiz.  

  • Argentina
  • Bolivia
  • Brazil
  • Chile
  • Columbia
  • Costa Rica
  • Cuba
  • Ecuador
  • Falkland Islands
  • Haiti
  • Mexico
  • Nicaragua
  • Panama
  • Paraguay
  • Peru
  • Puerto Rico
  • Uruguay
  • Venezuela

Study Group Discussions for Chapter 12

November 20th, 2011 by · No Comments · AP World History

In your Study Group you should ALWAYS do the following:

  1. Review the chapter – ask each other questions about stuff you did not understand.
  2. Help each other on your textbook notes: compare thesis and evidence.
  3. Challenge each other using your Note Cards.
  4. Look for similarities in this chapter to other time periods in world history.
  5. Use the question prompts I have posted to focus some of your review (here are a few question prompts for Chapter 12).
    • Frameworks: Examine the writings of the Marco Polo and the limitations of intercultural knowledge and understanding.
    • Frameworks: Examine the spread of printing and gunpowder technologies from East Asia into the Islamic empires and Western Europe.
    • Frameworks: Examine the effects of disease on Chinese empires.
    • Frameworks: Examine the role that trade played in the development of Novgorod.
    • Frameworks: Examine how the Mongols expansion  facilitated trans-Eurasian trade and communication.
    • Frameworks: Examine the impact of Chinese merchant communities in SE Asia.
    • Frameworks: Examine the diffusion of culture and technology that took place across the Mongol empires.
    • Change over Time: Discuss Mongol military technology and government techniques.  How did the combination of the two bring about the subjugation of most of Eurasia, the control of great masses of people, and the impoverishment of much of the countryside.
    • Change over Time: How were the Mongols transformed as they conquered and controlled different regions of Eurasia?  Use two khanates as examples.
    • Change over Time: Why did the Yongle emperor send Zheng He on his voyages of exploration?  What did they accomplish, and why were they ended?
    • Compare and Contrast: the lifestyles of nomadic and sedentary peoples.  How did each earn their livelihood, what was their daily life like, and how did they relate to outside groups?
    • Compare and Contrast: the legacy of the Mongols in western and eastern Eurasia.  How did they affect the political, economic, religious, and social systems of the peoples they conquered and the peoples they attempted to conquer?

Map for Chapter 7

November 11th, 2011 by · No Comments · Honors World, World History

Locate the following countries that will be on the chapter 7 Quiz.  The new countries will be extra credit on this Quiz:

  • Afghanistan
  • Cambodia
  • China
  • India
  • Iran
  • Iraq
  • Japan
  • Laos
  • North Korea
  • Saudi Arabia
  • Singapore
  • Taiwan
  • Thailand
  • Vietnam

Extra Credit

  • Kuwait

Study Group Discussion for Chapters 10-11

November 11th, 2011 by · No Comments · AP World History

In your Study Group you should ALWAYS do the following:

  1. Review the chapter – ask each other questions about stuff you did not understand.
  2. Help each other on your textbook notes: compare thesis and evidence.
  3. Challenge each other using your Note Cards.
  4. Look for similarities in this chapter to other time periods in world history.
  5. Use the question prompts I have posted to focus some of your review (here are a few question prompts for Chapters 10-11).
    • Discuss the cultural, social, political, and economical impact of Buddhism on East Asia, using specific examples from both China and Japan.
    • How did the Sui and Tang Dynasties of China rise, fall and influence both later dynasties and the peoples around them?
    • Frameworks: How was Neoconfucianism and Buddhism received in the various East Asian and Central Asian countries? How did it change as it spread to the various regions?
    • Compare and contrast the lifestyles of nomadic and sedentary peoples.  How did geography influence their lifestyle?
    • Discuss the various ways in which China influenced the rest of East Asia.  In what ways did Korea, Japan, and Vietnam remain culturally distinct?
    • Compare and contrast the rise, height and decline in Mayan, Aztec and Incan societies.
    • Frameworks: Examine the diffusion of literary, artistic and cultural traditions in the Toltec/Mexica and Inca traditions in Mesoamerica and Andean America.
    • Frameworks: Compare and contrast the Tributary systems in China and Mesoamerica.
    • Frameworks: Examine the Chinese traditions that influenced states in Japan.
    • Frameworks: Compare and contrast how agricultural production was effected by Champa rice varieties and the chinampa field systems.
    • Frameworks: Examine the role that trade played in the development of the following cities: Hangzhou, Cahokia, and Tenochtitlan

Study Group Discussion for Chapter 9

October 29th, 2011 by · No Comments · AP World History

In your Study Group you should ALWAYS do the following:

  1. Review the chapter – ask each other questions about stuff you did not understand.
  2. Help each other on your textbook notes: compare thesis and evidence.
  3. Challenge each other using your Note Cards.
  4. Look for similarities in this chapter to other time periods in world history.
  5. Use the question prompts I have posted to focus some of your review (here are a few question prompts for Chapter 9).
    • Discuss the environmental knowledge and technological adaptions the Scandinavian Vikings used in their long ships to travel in coastal & open waters as well as in rivers and estuaries.
    • Discuss the spread of disease pathogens and their effect on the Roman Empire.
    • Discuss how Venice became a trading city and their impact on the Mediterranean trade routes.
    • Discuss how inter-regional luxury goods such as silk and cotton textiles, and spices impacted Europe 600-1200.
    • Examine the rise of city-states in Europe 600-1200 (SPICE).
    • Discuss the impact of technology such as the horse collar increased agriculture production.
    • Frameworks: Examine how the Byzantine Empire’s expansion  facilitated trans-Eurasian trade and communication.
    • Frameworks: Examine the diffusion of culture and technology that took place throughout the crusades.

Map for Chpt 6

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Locate the following countries that will be on the chapter 6 Quiz.  The new countries will be extra credit on this Quiz:

  • Afghanistan
  • China
  • India
  • Iran
  • Japan
  • Mongolia
  • Nepal
  • Pakistan
  • Russia
  • South Korea
  • Taiwan
  • Turkey
Extra Credit
  • Bangladesh
  • Kazakhstan
  • Ukraine

Study Group Discussion for Chapter 8

October 23rd, 2011 by · No Comments · AP World History

In your Study Group you should ALWAYS do the following:

  1. Review the chapter – ask each other questions about stuff you did not understand.
  2. Help each other on your textbook notes: compare thesis and evidence.
  3. Challenge each other using your Note Cards.
  4. Look for similarities in this chapter to other time periods in world history.
  5. Use the question prompts I have posted to focus some of your review (here are a few question prompts for Chapter 8).
    • How did the Caliphates facilitate trans-Eurasian trade and communication as new peoples were drawn into their conquerers’ economies and trade networks?
    • Examine  the knowledge that the Arabs and Berbers used to adapt camels to travel  across and around the Sahara.
    • Examine the migrations and commercial contacts which led to the diffusion of Turkic and Arabic languages.

Study Group Discussion for Chapter 7

October 15th, 2011 by · No Comments · AP World History

In your Study Group you should ALWAYS do the following:

  1. Review the chapter – ask each other questions about stuff you did not understand.
  2. Help each other on your textbook notes: compare thesis and evidence.
  3. Challenge each other using your Note Cards.
  4. Look for similarities in this chapter to other time periods in world history.
  5. Use the question prompts I have posted to focus some of your review (here are a few question prompts for Chapters 7).  Be VERY aware, this chapter is heavily weighted in the AP Frameworks!
    • How new technologies permitted the use of domesticated pack animals to transport goods across longer routes (yokes, saddles, stirrups, horses, camels).
    • Innovations in maritime technologies, as well as advanced knowledge of the monsoon winds stimulated exchanges along maritime routes from East Africa to East Asia. (lateen sails)
    • The transformation of religious and cultural traditions as they spread.
    • Compare and contrast the Silk road with the Indian Ocean maritime trade system.

Map for Chpt 5

October 15th, 2011 by · No Comments · Honors World, World History

Use the map below to make sure you can locate the following countries that will be on the chapter 5 Quiz.  The new countries will be extra credit on this Quiz:

  • Algeria
  •  Angola
  • Chad
  • Djibouti
  • Egypt
  • Ethiopia
  • Iran
  • Iraq
  • Kenya
  • Liberia
  • Libya
  • Madagascar
  • Morocco
  • Rwanda
  • Saudi Arabia
  • Somalia
  • South Africa
  • Sudan
  • Tunisia
  • Yemen

Study Group Discussion for Chapter 6

October 8th, 2011 by · No Comments · AP World History

In your Study Group you should ALWAYS do the following:

  1. Review the chapter – ask each other questions about stuff you did not understand.
  2. Help each other on your textbook notes: compare thesis and evidence.
  3. Challenge each other using your Note Cards.
  4. Look for similarities in this chapter to other time periods in world history.
  5. Use the question prompts I have posted to focus some of your review (here are a few question prompts for Chapters 6).
    • What were the social inequalities in the caste system that began in the Vedic Age?
    • Compare/contrast: Jainism, Hinduism, and Buddhism.
    • What empires impacted S.E Asia’s early development?
    • AP Framework: what part did Pataliputra play in the Mauryan empire?
    • AP Framework: describe/explain the external problems along the frontiers of the Gupta and White Huns.
    • AP Framework: explain how Buddhism and Hinduism transformed religious and cultural traditions.

Map for Chpt 4

October 8th, 2011 by · No Comments · Honors World, World History

Use the map below to make sure you can locate the following countries that will be on the chapter 4 Quiz.  They will all be extra credit on this Quiz:

  • Argentina
  • Bolivia
  • Brazil
  • Chile
  • Columbia
  • Costa Rica
  • Cuba
  • Ecuador
  • Falkland Islands
  • Haiti
  • Mexico
  • Nicaragua
  • Panama
  • Paraguay
  • Peru
  • Puerto Rico
  • United States
  • Uruguay
  • Venezuela

Travel Opportunities

October 5th, 2011 by · No Comments · AP World History, Honors World, World History

  • The National Security Language Initiative for Youth (NSLI-Y) offers merit-based scholarships to U. S. high-school aged students for overseas study of seven critical foreign languages: Arabic, Chinese (Mandarin), Hindi, Korean, Persian (Tajik), Russian and Turkish. The NSLI-Y program is designed to immerse participants in the cultural life of the host country, giving them invaluable formal and informal language practice and sparking a lifetime interest in foreign languages and cultures. Applications for summer 2012 and academic year 2012-2013 programs are due November 3, 2011. Visit www.nsliforyouth.org for more information.
  • The Kennedy-Lugar Youth Exchange and Study (YES) Abroad Program offers scholarships to American high school students to spend a semester or an academic year in Bosnia & Herzegovina, Egypt, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Mali, Morocco, Oman, Thailand, and Turkey. This post 9/11 program focuses on increasing understanding between people in the U.S. and countries with significant Muslim populations. The application deadline is January 11, 2012. Visit the http://www.yesprograms.org/yesabroad for more information.
  • The American Youth Leadership Program offers opportunities for American high students and educators to travel abroad on a three- to four-week-long exchange program to gain first-hand knowledge of foreign cultures and to collaborate on solving global issues. Several different organizations implement this program, and each has organized an academic and experiential educational exchange focused on dialogue and debate, leadership development, and community service. Recruitment areas and application deadlines vary, so please check the http://exchanges.state.gov/youth/programs/ylp/current-youth-leaderships-programs.html website for more information.

Study Group Discussion for Chapters 4-5

October 2nd, 2011 by · No Comments · AP World History

In your Study Group you should ALWAYS do the following:

  1. Review the chapter – ask each other questions about stuff you did not understand.
  2. Help each other on your textbook notes: compare thesis and evidence.
  3. Challenge each other using your Note Cards.
  4. Look for similarities in this chapter to other time periods in world history.
  5. Use the question prompts I have posted to focus some of your review (here are a few question prompts for Chapters 4 & 5).
    • Examine the Imperial organization of ancient Persia. (pg 111)
    • Compare/contrast the interaction of geography and climate with the development of the Greek and Roman empires.
    • Compare/contrast the Greek polis with the nomadic groups of that time frame.
    • Compare/contrast (SPICE) Greek & Roman expansion and the impact on the regions that they expanded into.
    • What was Aristotle noted for?
    • Discuss the inequality in classical Greece. (pg 126)
    • Compare/contrast (SPICE) Rome with Han China. (pgs 166-7)
    • Explain the formation of Christianity.
    • Compare/contrast the technology of the Romans and Han Dynasty.
    • Compare/contrast (SPICE) the collapse of the Roman, Greek, and Qin empires.
    • Examine the political structure of ancient China.

Map for Chpt 3

September 28th, 2011 by · No Comments · Honors World, World History

Use the map below to make sure you can locate the following countries that will be on the chapter 3 Quiz.  They will all be extra credit on this Quiz:

  • Afghanistan
  • Burma/Myanmar
  • Cambodia
  • China
  • India
  • Iran
  • Japan
  • Laos
  • Mongolia
  • Nepal
  • North Korea
  • Oman
  • Pakistan
  • Philippines
  • Russia
  • Saudi Arabia
  • Singapore
  • Taiwan
  • Thailand
  • Vietnam

Study Group Discussion for Chapter 3

September 23rd, 2011 by · No Comments · AP World History

In your Study Group you should ALWAYS do the following:

  1. Review the chapter – ask each other questions about stuff you did not understand.
  2. Help each other on your textbook notes: compare thesis and evidence.
  3. Challenge each other using your Note Cards.
  4. Look for similarities in this chapter to other time periods in world history.
  5. Use the question prompts I have posted to focus some of your review (here are a few question prompts for Chapter 3).
    • Examine and understand Judaism
    • Examine the migrations of the following groups of people: Assyrians, Israelites, and Phoenicians.  Where did they go and why?  What was their method of migration and the response of the native people encountered?
    • Why is the Assyrian Empire considered to be the first in the world?  Think attributes and legacy.

Study Group Discussions for Chapter 2

September 17th, 2011 by · No Comments · AP World History

In your Study Group you should ALWAYS do the following:

  1. Review the chapter – ask each other questions about stuff you did not understand.
  2. Help each other on your textbook notes: compare thesis and evidence.
  3. Challenge each other using your Note Cards.
  4. Look for similarities in this chapter to other time periods in world history.
  5. Use the question prompts I have posted to focus some of your review (here are a few question prompts for Chapter 2).
    • Illustrate the influence of Daoism on the development of Chinese culture.  Look for examples in: medical theories & practices, poetry, metallurgy, and architecture.
    • Compare and contrast (SPICE) earlyChina,Nubia, Celtic, Olmec & Chavin civilizations.  A Matrix may help you organize your thoughts on this.
    • Compare and contrast (SPICE) chapter 1 civilizations to chapter 2 civilizations.
    • How did the political structure of China change over time as new ideologies of Confucianism, Daoism, and Legalism were introduced into Chinese society?
    • Compare and contrast how the ancient societies used religion to justify and retain power.  Choose two:Nubia,China, Celts, or Olmec.
    • Examine Daoism’s (Taoism) influence on the development of Chinese culture.  In particular, its influence on: medical theories & practices, poetry & art, metallurgy, and architecture.
    • Discuss the trade relationship between Egypt and Nubia.

Map for Chpt 2

August 30th, 2011 by · No Comments · Honors World, World History

Use the map below to make sure you can locate the following countries that will be on the chapter 2 Quiz.  They will all be extra credit on this Quiz.

  • Afghanistan
  • Algeria
  • Egypt
  • Iran
  • Iraq
  • Israel
  • Jordan
  • Libya
  • Morocco
  • Saudi Arabia
  • Syria
  • Tunisia
  • Turkey

 

Map for Chpt 1

August 24th, 2011 by · No Comments · Honors World, World History

Use the map below to make sure you can locate the following countries that will be on the chapter 1 Quiz.  They will all be extra credit on this Quiz:

  • Austria
  • Belgium
  • Bulgaria
  • Czech Republic
  • England
  • France
  • Germany
  • Greece
  • Hungary
  • Italy
  • Poland
  • Portugal
  • Romania
  • Slovakia
  • Spain
  • Turkey

Study Group Discussions for Chapter 1

August 24th, 2011 by · No Comments · AP World History

In your Study Group you should always do the following:

  1. Review the chapter – ask each other questions about stuff you did not understand.
  2. Challenge each other using your Note Cards.
  3. Look for similarities in this chapter to other time periods in world history.
  4. Use the question prompts I have posted to focus some of your review (here are a few question prompts for Chapter 1).
    • Compare and contrast life in foraging societies after the agriculture revolution.
    • Compare and contrast the political, social, and cultural characteristics of Mesopotamia, Egypt, and Indus Valley civilizations.  A Matrix may help you organize your thoughts on this (put the three categories across one side and the three civilizations across the other side).

Welcome To AP World History – Summer Reading/Work

August 24th, 2011 by · No Comments · AP World History

This is my ask questions blog.  If you have a question about the summer reading; here is the place to ask.  Before you post a question review those posted earlier to see if your question has already been answered.

Clean – Funny – Videos

October 4th, 2010 by · No Comments · Honors World, World History

These videos are just for your entertainment (since blogging can be so stressful):