Yreah

Advanced Placement World History Summer Assignment

Contact info: Mary Thompson Kristina Moser [e-mail] (school year) [e-mail] mthompson84 @aol.com (summer) cell: [phone]

1) Obtain all required materials for the course. • loose paper • spiral notebook • textbook (available at Roosevelt High School (356-2200)

World Civilizations: The Global Experience. Stearns [et al.]. Advanced Placement ed. 3rd ed. Addison-Wesley Educational Publishers Inc. 2003.

Textbook website: (www.ablongman.com/stearns)

2) Read chapters 1-3 in World Civilizations: The Global Experience. Complete the reading guides for each chapter. Be sure to answer all of the questions and vocabulary. Use complete sentences and state the significance in your answers. Use specific examples, evidence, and analysis in your answers.

***DO NOT TYPE YOUR ANSWERS. ALL WRITTEN WORK FOR AP WORLD HISTORY IS TO BE DONE BY HAND UNLESS OTHERWISE INSTRUCTED.***

AP WORLD HISTORY READING GUIDES TO ACCOMPANY World Civilizations: The Global Experience. Stearns [et al.]. Advanced Placement ed. 3rd ed. Addison-Wesley Educational Publishers Inc. 2003.

Chapter 1 From Human Prehistory to the Early Civilizations

Define these terms:

hunting and gathering nomads culture
Homo sapiens band civilization matrilineal domestication social differentiation pastoralist hieroglyphs monotheism Include these terms in the answers to the discussion questions:

Neolithic
Neolithic Agricultural Revolution
Bronze Age
Paleolithic
“savages”
Neanderthals
Jericho
Mesopotamia
Sumerians cuneiform city-state
Epic of Gilgamesh ziggurats animism
Babylonian Empire
Hammurabi
Phoenicians
Hittites

Chapter 1 DISCUSSION QUESTIONS (Answer in complete sentences, have a thesis, and support your answer with specific examples from the text or other sources.)

1. What enabled civilizations to develop?

2. What characteristics were critical for a society to become a civilization?

3. Describe the culture of Paleolithic hunting and gathering societies.

4. Where were the first sedentary agricultural communities established? How are the first sites connected to the spread of sedentary agriculture?

6. How did the Neolithic agrarian revolution transform the material life and social organization of human communities?

7. What was the connection between irrigation systems and civilization?

9. Why did the earliest civilization emerge in Mesopotamia?

10. What were the defining characteristics of Sumerian civilization?

11. What was the form of political organization in ancient Egypt?

[pic]

Chapter 2 Classical Civilizations: China

Define these terms:

ideographic writing eunuchs Confucianism
Daoism
Legalism

Include these terms in the answers to the discussion questions:

Huanghe river loess Yangshao culture
Longshan culture
Xia
Shang oracle bones
Zhou
Qin
Han
Mandate of Heaven
Laozi
The Art of War
Forbidden city
Great Wall
Analects
scholar-gentry
Warring States
Liu Bang secret societies

Chapter 2 DISCUSSION QUESTIONS (Answer in complete sentences, have a thesis, and support your answer with specific examples from the text or other sources.)

1.What was the nature of the formative Chinese agricultural system?

2. What was the nature of the political and social organization of Zhou China7

3. What led to the downfall of the Zhou dynasty?

4. What was the relationship between religion and the development of writing in China?

5. What do we know about the status of women in the Shang, Zhou, Qin and Han?

6. What caused the development and rise of Confucianism?

7. What are the basic tenants of Confucianism?

8. How did Chinese culture, particularly Confucian philosophy, support the political structure of the Empire?

9. What kinds of political problems was the development of bureaucracy in Han China meant to solve?

10. What was the civil service exam?

11. How did the Han dynasty expand the political and intellectual framework of Classical China?

Chapter 3 Classical Civilization: India
KEY TERMS (Define and state the significance)

Define these terms:

caste system
Hinduism
Reincarnation
Buddhism

Include these terms in the answers to the discussion questions:

Vedic Age
Epic Age
Mauryan Dynasty
Ashoka
Guptas
Sanskrit
The Upanishads dharma untouchables transmigration Ramayana
Chandragupta Maurya
Kamasutra
karma
Nirvana

Chapter 3 DISCUSSION QUESTIONS (Answer in full sentences, have a thesis and support your answer with specific examples from the text or other sources)

1. Why do we know and understand more about early China than we do about early India?

2. Why did the caste system develop and how was it perpetuated?

3. What were the chief differences between Buddhism and the developing Hindu tradition?

4. What differences between Indian and Chinese geography help explain differences in social and cultural patterns?

5. How did the Indian caste system differ from the organization of Chinese society?

6. Compare the social and family structures of India and China in the classical period. What were the main differences? The main similarities?