AP+WH+Syllabus+2012-13

**Advanced Placement World History ** Syllabus for Students: 

Instructor: Ms. Devorah Kenney-BensonClass Website: http://whsapworld.wikispaces.com/ Wekiva High School Room: 522 Email: devorah.kenney@ocps.netPhone: 407-297-4900 ext. 4522Office Hours: Tutoring sessions will be open for drop in & scheduled after school on Thursdays 2:15-3:00.

**Supplies Needed: ****Spiral college-ruled notebook, post it notes, highlighters (green, yellow, pink, blue), glue stick **

**The AP Exam is scheduled for Thursday, May 16, 2013. Are you ready? ** This course is both rigorous and rewarding. Students take a global view of historical processes and contacts amongst societies around the world and throughout time. The course requires a serious commitment by the student, which includes reading each day in preparation for activities in class. Participation and motivation are the keys to success!

**__You are expected to read one chapter a week, with quizzes on Mondays and tests on Fridays__. ** Even if we are at a different place in class discussion, students should be prepared for the weekly quizzes and tests. Cornell notes should be handwritten in student notebooks, and students should refer to vocabulary, guided questions, maps and visuals in the text.

Students will be supplied with a book, but having a personal copy is not a bad idea. [|On Amazon in paperback]  - $79.57 Access is also available by purchasing the textbook online through [|Register for Online Text]
 * Textbook: Ways of the World", by Robert Strayer **
 * **Student Online Companion Website **<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 15.454545021057129px;">: [|Online Strayer Textbook Site]

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 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Brief Table of Contents **


 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Prologue: From Cosmic History to Human History **

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">The Big Picture: Turning Points in Early World History 1. First Peoples: Populating the Planet, to 10,000 B.C.E. 2. First Farmers: The Revolutions of Agriculture, 10,000 B.C.E.–3,000 B.C.E. 3. First Civilizations: Cities, States, and Unequal Societies, 3,500 B.C.E.–500 B.C.E.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Part One: First Things First: Beginnings in History to 500 B.C.E **

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">The Big Picture: After the First Civilizations: What Changed and What Didn't? 4. Eurasian Empires, 500 B.C.E.–500 C.E. 5. Eurasian Cultural Traditions, 500 B.C.E.–500 C.E. 6. Eurasian Social Hierarchies, 500 B.C.E.–500 C.E. 7. Classical Era Variations: Africa and the Americas, 500 B.C.E.–1200 C.E.
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Part Two: The Classical Era in World History, 500 B.C.E.–500 C.E. **

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">The Big Picture: Defining a Millennium 8. Commerce and Culture, 500–1500 9. East Asian Connections: China and the World, 500–1300 10. The Worlds of European Christendom: Connected and Divided, 500–1300 11. Afro-Eurasian Connections: The Worlds of Islam, 600–1500 12. Pastoral Peoples on the Global Stage: The Mongol Moment, 1200–1500 13. The Worlds of the Fifteenth Century
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Part Three: An Age of Accelerating Connections, 500–1500 **

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">The Big Picture: Debating the Character of an Era 14. Empires and Encounters, 1450–1750 15. Global Commerce, 1450–1750 16. Religion and Science, 1450–1750
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Part Four: The Early Modern World, 1450-1750 **

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">The Big Picture: European Centrality and the Problem of Eurocentrism 17. Atlantic Revolutions and Their Echoes, 1750–1914 18. Revolutions of Industrialization, 1750–1914 19. Internal Troubles, External Threats: China, the Ottoman Empire, and Japan, 1800–1914 20. Colonial Encounters, 1750-1914
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Part Five: The European Moment in World History, 1750-1914 **

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">**Part Six: The Most Recent Century, 1914-2008** The Big Picture: The Twentieth Century: A New Period in World History? 21. The Collapse and Recovery of Europe, 1914–1970s 22. The Rise and Fall of World Communism, 1917–Present 23. Independence and Development in the Global South, 1914–Present 24. Accelerating Global Interaction Since 1945