AP World
Unit 2 Daily Syllabus: Organization and Reorganization of Human
Societies, c. 600 BCE. to c. 600 CE.
Key Concepts
A. The Development and Codification of Religious and Cultural traditions
1.) Codifications and further developments of existing religious traditions
provided a bond among the people and an ethical code to live by
2.) New belief systems and cultural traditions emerged and spread often
asserting universal truths (Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity,
Daoism, Zoroastrianism)
3.) Belief systems affected gender roles. Buddhism and Christianity
encouraged monastic life and Confucianism emphasized filial piety.
4.) Other religious and cultural traditions continued parallel to the codified,
written belief systems in core civilizations.
5.) Artistic expressions, including literature and drama, architecture, and
sculpture, show distinctive cultural developments.
B. The Development of States and Empires
1.) The number and size of key states and empires grew dramatically by
imposing political unity on areas where previously there had been
competing states
2.) Empires and states developed new techniques of imperial administration
based, in part, on the success of earlier political forms.
3.) Unique social and economic dimensions developed in imperial societies in
Afro-Eurasia and the Americas
4.) The Roman, Han, Persian, Mauryan, and Gupta empires created political,
cultural, and administrative difficulties that they could not manage,
which eventually led to their decline, collapse, and transformation into
successor empires or states
C. Emergence of Transregional Networks of Communication and Exchange
1.) Land and water routes became the basis for transregional trade,
communication, and exchange networks in the Eastern Hemisphere
2.) New technologies facilitated long-distance communication and exchange
3.) Alongside the trade in goods, the exchange of people, technology, religious
and cultural beliefs, food crops, domesticated animals, and disease
pathogens developed across far-flung networks of communication and
exchange (Christianity to Ethiopia)
Day/Date
W, 9/19
Assessment or
Assignment to be
Turned in
Unit 1 Test
Class Activity
Unit 1 Test
Th, 9/20
CCOT Chart
Lesson on POV
Homework
CCOT Chart
Work on Core Civilizations
CC Essay
POV Practice
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Day/Date
F/M 9/21-24
T, 9/25
Assessment or
Assignment to be
Turned in
POV Practice
Core Civilizations
CC Essay
W, 9/26
Class Activity
Go to Library to work on
Religion Project
Finish discussing POV
Lecture on Empire—key
characteristics and
Classical Empires—
Persian, Roman, Han,
and Mauryan/Gupta
Finish Lecture on early
empires
Th/F, 9/27-28
Ch. 4 Reading Quiz
Salt and Iron Debate
Activity
M, 10/1
Salt & Iron Debate
Questions
Han & Rome Class
Activity
Discuss Comparison of
Han & Rome
India under the Maurya
and Gupta Empire
What’s Wrong with this
Country? Activity—Make
sure you have your books
Classical Empires
Roundtable
T, 10/2
W/Th, 10/3-4
Ch. 2 Reading Quiz
Asoka Questions
F, 10/5
What’s Wrong with
this country
T, 10/9
Ch. 3 Reading Quiz
CC Essay Outline
W/Th, 10/1011
Women’s Documents
Analysis
F, 1012
Ch. 5 Reading Quiz
Chinese Philosophies
Activity
M, 10/15
Chinese
Philosophies
Assignment
Collect Hellenic
Discuss contributions of
Greeks
Compare Chinese and
Greek Traditions
Socratic Seminar:
Women in Classical
Societies
How to Write an AP
World DBQ
Homework
Work on CC Essay
Work on Religion Project
Begin reading Chapter 4
Read Chapter 4
Study for Chapter 4 Rdg Quiz
Read Salt and Iron Debates
Rdg
Read Chapter 2
Salt & Iron Debate Questions
Read Han & Rome and
complete assigned Docs.
Rome and Han Chart
Study for Chap. 2 Rdg Quiz
Asoka Rdg & Questions
Begin Reading Chapter 3
Prepare for Classical Empires
Roundtable
Study for Chap. 3 Rdg. Quiz
Read Women in Classical
Societies and Prepare for
Socratic Seminar
CC Essay Outline
Read Chapter 5
Women’s Documents Analysis
Rome and Han DBQ—Due
Oct. 19
Prepare for Chinese
Philosophies Activity
Study for Chap. 5 Rdg Quiz
Chinese Philosophies
Assignment
Read Hellenic Civilization
Documents and answer
Questions
Read Hinduism, Buddhism,
and Judaism Readings and
answer Questions
AP World
Day/Date
T/W, 10/16-17
Th, 10/18
F, 10/19
Civilization
Questions
Assessment or
Assignment to be
Turned in
Collect Rdgs
Questions
PPT (These will be
posted on my
website)
Han & Rome DBQ
M/T, 10/22-23
W, 10/24
Th, 10/25
Unit 2 Test
Class Activity
Homework
Discuss Hindu, Buddhist,
and Jewish beliefs—
Compare and Contrast
with China and Greece
Religion Presentations
Prepare to Present Religion
PPTS
Finish Religion
Presentations
The Spread of Religions
Activity (Bridging World
History
Complete Maps outlining
the various trade routes
and products that were
exchanged
Classical Silk Roads
Activity
Read Strayer Chapter,
“Commerce and Culture” and
annotate
Finish DBQ
Prepare for Classical Silk
Roads Activity
Study for Unit 2 Test