AP WORLD HISTORY PACING GUIDE 2014-2015
*WEEKS ONE and TWO (Aug. 7 - Aug.22)
Strayer, Chapter 5: Society and Inequality in Eurasia/ North Africa (500 BCE - 500 CE)
I.
Society and the State in China
A. Elite Officials (Confucianism)
B. Landlord Class
C. Peasants
D. Merchants
II. Class and Caste in India
A. Caste as Varna
B. Caste as Jati
C. Function of the Caste
III. Slavery: The Case of the Roman Empire
A. Slavery and civilization
B. The Making of Roman Slavery
C. Resistance and Rebellion
IV. Comparing Patriarchies
A. The Case of China
B. Athens and Sparta
Strayer, Chapter 6: Commonalities and Variations Africa and the Americas (500 BCE - 1200 CE)
I. Continental Comparisons
II. Civilizations of Africa
A. Meroe
B. Axum
C. Niger River
III. Civilizations of Mesoamerica
A. Maya
B. Teotihuacan
IV. Civilizations of the Andes
A. Chavin
B. Moche
C. Wari and Tiwanaku
V. Alternatives to Civilization: Bantu Africa
A. Cultural Encounters
B. Society and Religion
VI. Alternatives to Civilization: North America
A. Ancestral Pueblo
B. Cahokia
TEST (includes summer reading assignment)
*WEEKS THREE – ELEVEN (Aug. 25 – Oct. 23)
PART TWO: An Age of Accelerating Connections 500 – 1500
Strayer, Chapter 7: Commerce and Culture
I. Silk Roads
A. Growth of the Silk Roads
B. Goods in transit
C. Cultures in transit
D. Disease in transit
II. Sea Roads
A. Web of the Indian Ocean World
B. Catalyst for Change: Southeast Asia
C. East Africa
III. Sand Roads across the Sahara
A. Commercial beginnings in West Africa
B. Gold, Salt, and Slaves
IV. An American Network: Commerce and Connection in the Western Hemisphere
Strayer, Chapter 8: China and the World
I. The Reemergence of a Unified China
A. A Golden Age of Chinese achievements
B. Women in the Song Dynasty
II. China and the Northern Nomads
A. The tribute system in theory
B. The tribute system in practice
C. Cultural influence across an ecological frontier
III. Coping with China: Korea, Vietnam, and Japan
A. Korea and China
B. Vietnam and China
C. Japan and China
IV. China and the Eurasian world economy
A. China’s impact on Eurasia
B. China as economic beneficiary
V. China and Buddhism
A. Making Buddhism Chinese
B. The crisis of Chinese Buddhism
Strayer, Chapter 9: The Worlds of Islam
I. The birth of a new religion
A. The homeland of Islam
B. The messenger and the message
C. The transformation of Arabia
II. The making of an Arab Empire
A. War, conquest, and tolerance
B. Conversion
C. Divisions and controversies
D. Women and men in Islam
III. Islam and cultural encounter a four-way comparison
A. The case of India
B. The case of Anatolia
C. The case of West Africa
D. The case of Spain
IV. The world of Islam as a new civilization
A. Networks of faith
B. Networks of exchange
Strayer, Chapter 10: The Worlds of Christendom
I. Christian contraction in Asia and Africa
A. Asian Christianity
B. African Christianity
II. Byzantine Christendom
A. The Byzantine state
B. The Byzantine Church and Christian divergence
C. Byzantium and the world
D. The conversion of Russia
III. Western Christendom: Rebuilding
A. Political life in Western Europe
B. Society and the Church
C. Accelerating change in the west
D. The Crusades
IV. The West in comparative perspective
A. Catching up
B. Pluralism in politics
C. Reason and faith
Strayer, Chapter 11: Pastoral Peoples on the Global Stage; the Mongols (1200-1500)
I. The long history of pastoral nomads
A. The world of pastoral societies
B. Before the Mongols, pastoralists in history
II. Breakout: the Mongol Empire
A. From Temujin to Chinggis Khan
B. Explaining the Mongol moment
III. Encountering the Mongols: Three cases
A. China and the Mongols
B. Persia and the Mongols
C. Russia and the Mongols
IV. The Mongol Empire as a Eurasian network
A. Toward a world economy
B. Diplomacy on a Eurasian scale
V. Cultural Exchange in the Mongol realm
VI. The Plague: an Afro-Eurasian pandemic
Strayer, Chapter 12: The Worlds of the Fifteenth Century
I. The shapes of human communities
A. Paleolithic persistence: Australia and North America
B. Agricultural village societies
C. Pastorals in Central Asia and West Africa
II. Civilizations of the 15th century: Comparing China and Europe
A. Ming Dynasty China
B. European comparisons (state building and cultural renewal)
C. European comparisons (maritime voyaging)
III. Civilizations of the 15th century: Islamic world
A. The Ottoman and Safavid Empires
B. The Songhay and Mughal Empires
IV. Civilizations of the 15th century: The Americas
A. The Aztec Empire
B. The Inca Empire
V. Webs of Connection
TESTS: 3 chapter and 1 unit both mc and essay
*WEEKS TWELVE - SEVENTEEN (Oct. 27 – Dec. 5)
PART THREE: The Early Modern World 1450 – 1750
Strayer, Chapter 13: Political transformations: Empires and Encounters
I. European Empires in the Americas
A. The European advantage
B. The great dying
C. The Columbian Exchange
II. Comparing colonial societies in the Americas
A. Aztecs and Incas
B. Colonies of sugar
C. Settler colonies in North America
III. The Steppes and Siberia
A. Experiencing the Russian empire
B. Russians and empire
IV. Asian Empires
A. Making China an empire
B. Muslims and Hindus in the Mughal Empire
C. Muslims and Christians in the Ottoman Empire
Strayer, Chapter 14: Economic transformations: Commerce and Consequence
I. Europeans and Asian commerce
A. A Portuguese Empire of commerce
B. Spain and the Philippines
C. The East India Companies
D. Asians and Asian commerce
II. Silver and Global commerce
III. Fur in global commerce
IV. The Atlantic slave trade
A. The slave trade in context
B. The slave trade in practice
C. The impact of the slave trade in Africa
Strayer, Chapter 15: Cultural transformations: Religion and Science
I. The globalization of Christianity
A. The Protestant Reformation
B. Christianity outward bound
C. Conversion and adaptation in Spanish America
D. An Asian comparison: China and the Jesuits
II. Persistence and change in Afro-Asian cultural traditions
A. Expansion and renewal in the Islamic world
B. China: new directions in an old tradition
C. India: bridging the Hindu/Muslim divide
III. A new way of thinking: the birth of modern science (Scientific Revolution)
A. Why Europe?
B. Science as cultural revolution
C. Science and Enlightenment
D. Looking ahead: Science in the 19th century
E. European science beyond the west
TEST and Project
*WEEKS EIGHTEEN– TWENTY-THREE
(Dec. 8 – Feb. 4)
PART FOUR: The European Moment in World History 1750 -1914
Strayer, Chapter 16: Atlantic revolutions, global echoes
I. Atlantic revolutions in a global context
II. Comparing Atlantic revolutions
A. The North American Revolution
B. The French Revolution
C. The Haitian Revolution
D. Spanish American revolutions
III. Echoes of revolution
A. The abolition of slavery
B. Nations and nationalism
C. Feminist beginnings
Strayer, Chapter 17: Revolutions of industrialization
I. Explaining the Industrial Revolution
A. Why Europe?
B. Why Britain?
II. The first industrial society
A. The British aristocracy
B. The middle classes
C. The laboring classes
D. Social protest
E. Europeans in motion
III. Industrialization in the United States and Russia
A. The US: Industrialization without socialism
B. Russia: Industrialization and revolution
IV. The Industrial Revolution and Latin America in the 19th century
A. After independence in Latin America
B. Facing the world economy
C. Becoming like Europe?
Strayer, Chapter 18: Colonial encounters in Asia and Africa (1750 -1950)
I. Industry and empire
II. A second wave of European conquests
III. Under European rule
A. Cooperation and rebellion
B. Colonial empires with a difference
IV. Comparing colonial economies
A. Economies of coercion: Forced labor and the power of the state
B. Economies of cash-crop agriculture: The pull of the market
C. Economies of wage labor: Migration for work
D. Women and the colonial economy: Examples from Africa
E. Assessing colonial development
V. Believing and belonging: Identity and cultural change in the colonial era
A. Education
B. Religion
C. “Race” and “Tribe”
Strayer, Chapter 19: Empires in collision (1800 – 1914)
I. Reversal of fortune: China’s century of crisis
A. The crisis within
B. Western pressures
C. The failure of conservative modernization
II. The Ottoman Empire and the west in the 19th century
A. “The sick man of Europe”
B. Reform and its opponents
C. Outcomes: Comparing China and the Ottoman Empire
III. The Japanese difference: The rise of a new East Asian power
A. The Tokugawa background
B. American intrusion and the Meiji Restoration
C. Modernization Japanese style
D. Japan and the world
TEST/QUIZZES to include semester exam.
*WEEKS TWENTY-FOUR – THIRTY-ONE
(Feb.9 – APR. 3)
PART FIVE: The most recent century 1914 – 2012
Strayer, Chapter 20: Collapse at the center: World War, Depression, and rebalancing of global power
I. The World War I: European civilization in crisis, 1914 -1918
A. An accident waiting to happen
B. Legacies of the “Great War”
II. Capitalism unraveling: the Great Depression
III. Democracy denied: Comparing Italy, Germany, and Japan
A. The fascist alternative in Europe
B. Hitler and the Nazis
C. Japanese authoritarianism
IV. A second world war
A. The road to war in Asia
B. The road to war in Europe
C. The outcomes of global conflict
V. The recovery of Europe
Strayer, Chapter 21: Revolution, Socialism, and global conflict
I. Global communism
II. Revolutions as a path to communism
A. Russia: Revolution in a single year
B. China: A prolonged revolutionary struggle
III. Building Socialism
A. Communist feminism
B. Socialism in the countryside
C. Communism and industrial development
D. The search for enemies
IV. East vs West: A global divide and a Cold War
A. Military conflict and the Cold War
B. Nuclear standoff and 3rd world rivalry
C. The Cold War and the superpowers
V. Paths to the end of Communism
A. China: Abandoning Communism and maintaining the party
B. The Soviet Union: The collapse of Communism and country
Strayer, Chapter 22: The end of empire
I. Toward freedom: Struggles for independence
A. The end of empire in world history
B. Explaining African and Asian independence
II. Comparing freedom struggles
A. The case of India: Ending British rule
B. The case of South Africa: Ending apartheid
III. Experiments with freedom
A. Experiments with political order: Party, army, and the fate of democracy
B. Experiments in economic development
C. Experiments with culture
Strayer, Chapter 23: Capitalism and culture
I. The transformation of the world economy
A. Reglobalization
B. Growth, instability, and inequality
C. Globalization and an American empire
II. The globalization of liberation: Feminism
A. Feminism in the west
B. Feminism in the global south
C. International feminism
III. Religion and global modernity
A. Fundamentalism on a global scale
B. Creating Islamic societies: Resistance and renewal
C. Religious alternatives to fundamentalism
IV. Experiencing the Anthropocene Era: Environment and environmentalism
A. The global environment transformed
B. Green and global
TEST/PAPER
* Note that the dates listed are not fixed, due to the additional skills necessary for successful
completion of this course.
NATIONAL EXAM: 8 AM Thursday, May 14, 2015