AP World Review

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AP World Review

• May 14, 2009
• Morning
• Starts before normal school hours
• 800 1215
• Doors close at 8 and you will not be admitted
  after this time

Grade are sent by mail in July Available by phone
starting after July 1st for a fee (about 8 by
credit card) [phone] See the Collegeboard
web site for More information
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Test Format

• Exam last 3 Hours and 5 Minutes
• 55 Minutes for 70 Multiple Choice Questions
• 2 hours for essays
• 50 Minutes for Document Based Question (10
  minutes for Reading and Evaluating Documents)
• 40 Minutes for Change Over Time Essay
• 40 Minutes for Comparative Essay Question
• Time Frames
• Prehistory to 600 C.E 19-20 of Questions
• 600 C.E-1450 C.E 22 of Questions
• 1450 C.E- 1750 C.E 19-20 of Questions
• 1750 C.E- 1914 C.E 19-20 of Questions
• 1914-Present 19-20 of Questions

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Who takes the test

• 21,000 students took the test in 2002.
• This was the most popular first-year exam in the
  AP Program's history.
• 10 5
• 17 4
• 29 3
• 25 2
• 19 1
• 2005 64,000 students took the exam
• 2006 84,000
• 2007 101,000
• 2008 125,000
• 76 of those taking the exam are sophomores

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Grading

• 70 Multiple Choice Questions 1/2 Score
• Document Based Question 16.66
• Change Over Time Essay 16.66
• Comparative Essay 16.66
• Essays Graded on Scale of 0 to 9
• Basic score (7) achieved before expanded score
  points (2) considered

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2007 scores52.4 made 3 or higher7.28
cumulative essay score
DBQ            2.0CCOT          2.6 Comparative
1.2
Data from Collegeboard accessed March 6, 2008
http//apcentral.collegeboard.com/apc/public/repo
sitory/ap08_WorldHistory_GradeDistributions.pdf
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Prediction of scores

• Balance is a key factor
• If student increases number correct on multiple
  choice then there can be a slight decrease in the
  essay scores and if essays scores are higher then
  a slight decrease in the multiple choice will not
  change the overall score
• Another performance factor is fatigue so pacing
  and focus that can be enhanced by practice impact
  scores to a small degree
• Below chart is an interpretation based on Bill
  Stricklands 2007 data charts

Variations appear depending on the number of
questions skipped (not answered and left blank)
vs. the number of questions answer with ¼ penalty
deduction
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What do the questions look like

• 6 basic categories, which are as follows
• Identification - simply test whether you know a
  fact, or facts.
• 35-40 of the test
• Analytical - makes you think about relationships,
  see connections, place in order
• 20-25 of the test
• Quotation Based - match the quote with the
  appropriate person
• 10 or less of the test
• Image Interpretation - determine images
  relevance, purpose, or meaning
• 10 or less of the test
• Map Based Questions- identify what a map shows,
  or interpret it's purpose
• 10 or less of the test
• Graph Chart Interpretation- interpret answer
  from data given in chart form
• 10 or less of the test

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Five Themes are tested

• The impact of interaction among major societies.
• Such as Trade, International Exchange, War, and
  Diplomacy
• The Relationship of Change and Continuity across
  the periods of World History
• Impact of Technology and Demography on People and
  the Environment
• Including Population change, Manufacturing,
  Agriculture, etc.
• Systems of Organization and Gender Structure
• Cultural and Intellectual Development and
  Interactions among Societies
• Change over time in functions and structures of
  Political States

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Why do I need to Review and how can I schedule
this until exam?

• At the beginning the concepts and terms are
  disconnected because you do not have the whole
  picture. Beginning at the start of the second
  part of the course you begin to use the concepts
  and need to review from the beginning. You are
  becoming connected.
• March
• Start review process
• Firm up outside study groups and schedule dates
  and times to meet
• Identify strengths and weaknesses
• Attend outside review provided by facilitator as
  a more formal review
• Gather and Create charts and tables and study
  cards ( Link for one chart site)
• Set out schedule either by region or era or
  combination
• April 1st- 20th
• Be determined to meet goals (attitude)
• Review at least ½ of goal (should be either up to
  1800s or 4 regions (South Asia, East Asia,
  Western Europe, Eastern Europe, North and South
  America, North Africa and Middle East, Africa,
  Central Asia, Indonesia and Pacific, Southeastern
  Asia, etc..)
• April 20th May 8th
• Practice tests and essays
• Tentative date for APWH practice exam in the
  library is April 25th 800 1200 with MC given
  first. Bring both pencil and pen
• May 9th or 10th (weekend)
• Large group study session at least 2 hours (I AM
  AP) (I AM AP) (I AM AP)
• Week before essay brainstorm for possible essay
  questions and chart out the questions
• Day before create positive environment
• play with the data

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Broad Eras

• Foundations period
• 8000 BCE 600 CE
• Includes prehistoric era, Ancient Civilizations,
  and Classical Era
• Postclassical
• 600 1450
• Includes Dark Age, Middle Ages and High Middle
  Ages
• Beginning of the Modern Era
• 1450-1750
• Includes Renaissance, Age of Exploration,
  Scientific Revolution, Reformation, 2nd
  Agricultural Revolution, Age of Absolutism
• 1750 1914
• Industrial Revolution, Age of Revolutions,
  Imperialism, Growth of Nations and Nationalism
• 1914 present day
• Age of conflict, Decolonization, Globalization,
  Issues
• Note major comparisons and snapshots at
  http//hhhknights.com/apwh/review and also key
  terms at same URL

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Measuring time in prehistoric era once man appears

• Main detriments used to mark basic periods in the
  development of prehistoric peoples
• Changes in stone age technology
• (Neolithic, Paleolithic, etc..)
• evolutionary stages of species

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Building Blocks of Civilization

• What is a Civilization?
• Economic System
• Political Organization
• Moral Code (Religion)
• Written Language and Intellectual Tradition
• Division of labor

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Others ways to tell if it is a civilization

• primary measurement is surplus
• Something above the subsistence level
• Indicators of more time
• other characteristics of civilization include
• Writing
• Cities
• established states.

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Issues of Civilization vrs. Cultures

• What advantages does an agriculturally based
  society have over a hunter/gatherer based
  society?
• The greatest advantage is reliable food supply,
  and hence, the capacity to support larger
  populations. Agriculture produces surpluses, and
  those and agriculture's sedentary nature, open
  the door to specialization and a more elaborate
  culture, etc.
• Why is the development of writing important in
  the history of the river valley civilizations?
• Writing is essential for record keeping,
  bureaucracy, commerce, and accumulating
  knowledge it also makes possible more varied
  cultural forms. Writing also led to new social
  divisions based on selective literacy.
• Compared to noncivilized societies, what are the
  major drawbacks of civilization?
• Often have inequality in social structure and
  gender as well as disease and war.

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Early Man

• Beginnings of Humans
• Hominids 3 to 4 million years on earth
• Hominids were primates
• Earliest Hominids called Australopithecine
• Bipeds
• Other Types of Early Man
• Homo Habilis
• Homo Erectus
• Homo Sapiens

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Stone Age

• Paleolithic Age (Old Stone Age)
• Tools were used
• Simple Huts
• Fire
• Hunter Gatherer Societies
• Family or Clan Groupings
• Political Organizations Begin
• Art and Music also practiced
• Agricultural Revolution Neolithic Revolution
• Occurred around end of Great Ice Age
• Rapid Population Growth
• Need for Change of Food Supply
• New Skills Needed
• Pastoralism and Agriculture
• Begins with Domestication of Plants and Animals

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Results of Agricultural Revolution

• Many Diversified Crops developed
• Development of Communities and Villages
• Not Based on family ties
• Lead to formation of Cities
• Early Religions form around Harvest and Planting
  Seasons
• Specialization of Labor
• Improved Tools
• Development of Social Classes

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Neolithic Revolution

• What was it?
• A period that saw the development of varied,
  specialized tools and accompanied the
  introduction of agriculture.
• Initial results
• It opened the potential for agriculture and the
  resultant differentiations with hunting and
  gathering.
• Impact
• People settled down and cities developed which
  led to complex systems developing and the change
  from societies to civilizations

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PreHistory History

• Presence of a written language
• Writing is essential for record keeping,
  bureaucracy, commerce, and accumulating knowledge
• it makes possible more varied cultural forms.
• Writing also led to new social divisions based on
  selective literacy.
• Scribes
• Scholarly gentry
• Dark Age
• Art of writing has developed and been lost

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River Valley Civilizations

• Mesopotamia (between two rivers)
• Tigris and Euphrates River Valley
• Flooding unpredictable in both time and force
• Fertile Crescent
• Written Language Cuneiform
• Epic of Gilgamesh
• Hammurabis Code
• Egypt
• Nile River valley Upper and Lower Egypt
• Inundation regular flooding Schedule
• Monarchy Pharaoh and Small class of Priests
• Duality Complex Religion, Mummification
• Book of the Dead
• Many great Inventions and Advances

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Comparison of Egypt and Mesopotamia

• Common features include writing, surplus, cities,
  and established governments
• Cuneiform
• Hieroglyphics
• Pyramids only different types (steppe dev. Into
  ziggurats)
• Differences
• cultural tone
• cultural features like ideas of death
• artistic forms
• literary emphases
• government organization and stability
• Egypt placed more emphasis on monarchy and
  political stability and held larger territories
  for longer periods while Fertile Crescent had
  city-states that constantly vied for control of
  the area and form empires (Sumerians, Assyrians,
  Akkadians, Chaldeons, Babylonians, etc
• mobilization of labor
• Stability vs. Instability
• Fragmentation which required warlike technology
  and different issues of control

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River Valley Civilizations

• Indus Valley
• Indus and Ganges Rivers
• Reason for decline not known
• Highly unified and organized government
• Artistic
• Linear B
• China
• Yellow River valley
• Shang China first dynasty
• Monarchy
• Bronze work, silk making, pottery, jade
• Zhou Dynasty Many Advancements
• Mandate of heaven

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Political structure tied to social order and
culture by Confucianism

• Confucianism emphasized order, hierarchy, and
  deference, including specific injunctions to obey
  the emperor.
• Bureaucracy aimed to alleviate political
  instability, difficulties of centrally
  controlling outlying provinces, and related
  competition among landed aristocrats for power
  and influence.
• Daoism also supports order by one way or the
  way although it didnt support the emperor

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Throughout dynastic system in China pendulum
changes in level and type of Confucianism (CCOT)

• Qin dynasty outlawed Confucianism
• Legalism encouraged actions based on law and
  furthered the totalitarian state
• Actually began to develop in the Zhou dynasty but
  was used by Shih Huang Di to unite the region
  under his Qin dynasty
• Different than Confucianism which was based on
  ethics and right behavior and rites or
  ceremonies which promote the social and political
  order
• Adopted as state religion under Wu Di of Han
  Dynasty
• Song Dynasty developed Neoconfucianism

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Ancient Chinese Dynasties

• I. Early (Neolithic, then River Valley, Huang
  He)
• A. Yangshau - 6000 - 5000 Bce
• B. Longshan - 5000 - 4000 Bce
• II. Bronze Age (1500-600 BC)
• A. Shang Dynasty (1500-1122 bce)
• B. Chou (Zhou) (1122-256 bce)
• 1. Early Chou (Zhou)1100- 600
• III. Classical Age (600 BC - 200 ad)
• A. Late Chou (Zhou) (600-221 bce)
• 1. Confucius
• B. Chin (First Emperor) (221-206 bce) (Shi
  hwang di)
• 1. First Called China
• C. Han (paper) (202 BC- 220 ad)
• 1. 90 of Chinese consider themselves Han
  still today
• 2. Pax Sinica
• a. Wu Di (140 BC - 87 bce)
• IV. Age of Division (200-600 ad)
• A. Three Kingdoms
• B. Northern and Southern (Wui, Sui)

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Impact

• It appears that the impact of the Indus is less
  than the Hwang Ho river-valley civilizations,
  because China was much less disrupted, and thus
  evidenced more continuities.
• What evidence could you use to show that Hwang He
  river valley had greater impact on the
  development of China than did the Indus River
  Valley (Mohenjo-daro and Harappa)

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Southwestern Asia Civilizations

• Persians
• Created one of the largest empires on world
  history from Turkey to Lybia
• Cyrus the Great was first king, Darius the Great
• Advanced Postal System, Roads, Single Currency,
  and Decentralized Government
• Zoroastrianism Primary Religion
• monotheistic
• Fell to Alexander the Great
• Phoenicians
• Syria and Lebanon
• Advanced Export Economy
• Skilled Traders
• Established Carthage
• First Alphabet

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Southwestern Asia Civilizations

• Lydians
• Coined money
• Hebrews
• Ethical monotheism
• Monotheism represented a significant departure
  from polytheism in its concept of ethics and
  ideas of justice and in the extent to which the
  world was viewed as orderly.
• Diaspora
• Assyrians
• Introduction of iron weapons
• Babylonians
• Significant law code
• Code of Hammurabi

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MesoAmerica

• Did not have the large animals
• Diseases that they carried were not present but
  made peoples of Mesoamerica vulnerable to disease
  when they connected to the Europeans in the
  second millennium
• Archaic period includes beginning of agricultural
  experimentation
• Olmecs are the first preclassical civilization
  (ca. 1150 BCE)
• site is San Lorenzo
• Around La Venta about 35 BCE system of writing is
  present
• About 100 CE, at Teotihuacán, the Pyramids of the
  Sun and Moon and the Avenue of the Dead are
  erected at the "center of the universe" as
  monuments to the gods of creation
• Early Mayans

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Environmental determinism

• Relationship between culture of a civilization,
  success and stability
• How does the culture react to the environment or
  environmental change
• Technology
• Movement of peoples into and out of the area
• Crossroads vs. isolation