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A.P. WORLD HISTORY

• PERIODIZATION, THEMES, AND ANALYSIS

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A.P. WORLD HISTORY

• PERIODIZATION

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WHAT IS PERIODIZATION?

• Each period is defined by three conditions
• A geographical component
• When civilization contracts, shrinks
• When civilization spreads from smaller to wider
  area
• Increase, decrease in contacts across regions
• Emergence of parallel developments across globe
• Dates not best way to define a period
• Period may occur
• At different time
• In different regions

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PERIOD 1ANCIENT PERIOD

• To 600 BCE
• Growth of agriculture
• Generally small city-states, states
• Neolithic Period
• Ancient River Valley Civilizations
• Rise of trade
• Ends with rise of large, regional empires

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PERIOD 2CLASSICAL PERIOD

• 600 BCE to 600 CE
• Large, regional empires
• Military aristocracies
• Integrate regions
• Permanent traditions and religions
• Regional civilizations
• China, India, SW Asia, Mediterranean
• Mesoamerica and Andean America
• Strong contacts between regional centers
• Many areas outside classical civilizations
• Ends with massive nomadic invasions

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PERIOD 3POST-CLASSICAL PERIOD

• 600 CE to 1450 CE
• Began with rise of Islam
• First trans-regional civilization
• Spans Eurasia and Africa
• Era of two great powers Islam, China
• Spread of universalizing religions, philosophies
• Saw rise of new civilization centers
• Emergence of network of global contacts
• Ended due to Mongols, Black Death

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PERIOD 4EARLY MODERN PERIOD

• 1450-1750
• Rise of gunpowder empires
• Rise of Western Europe
• World shrinks
• All continents included in world network
• Global trade develops for first time
• Great exchanges
• Goods, products, flora, fauna, people, germs
• Ideas especially European, Christianity

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PERIOD 5MODERN PERIOD

• 1750 to 1900 The West and the Rest
• Era of massive technological change
• Era of many revolutions
• Technological
• Political
• Social, Intellectual
• Vast trade networks
• Western global hegemony
• Great Britain, France, Germany, Russia
• USA, Japan are newest powers
• Dominance of Western culture

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PERIOD 6CONTEMPORARY PERIOD

• 1900 to Present Change, Change, Change
• The American century and retreat of Europe
• Rise of Pacific Rim, India
• Collapse of European empires
• Modernization vs. westernization
• Modernization vs. traditionalism
• Rise of new political forms
• Mass culture
• Technology, telecommunications dominate age

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A.P. WORLD HISTORY

• THEMES

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Interaction between humans and the environment
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Interaction between humans and the environment

• Demography and disease
• Migration
• Patterns of settlement
• Technology

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Development and interaction of cultures
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Development and interaction of cultures

• Religions
• Belief systems, philosophies and ideologies
• Science and technology
• The arts and architecture

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State-building, expansion, and conflict
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State-building, expansion, and conflict

• Political structures and forms of governance
• Empires
• Nations and nationalism
• Revolts and revolution
• Regional, transregional, and global structures
  and organizations

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Creation, expansion, and interaction of economic
systems
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Creation, expansion, and interaction of economic
systems

• Agricultural and pastoral production
• Trade and commerce
• Labor systems
• Industrialization
• Capitalism and socialism

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Development and transformation of social
structures
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Development and transformation of social
structures

• Gender roles and relations
• Family and kinship
• Racial and ethnic constructions
• Social and economic classes

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A.P. WORLD HISTORY

• ANALYSIS

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COMPARISON
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CHANGE CONTINUITY
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A.P. WORLD HISTORY

• PERIODIZATION, THEMES, AND ANALYSIS