AP Wo rld His tor y I – M id ter m S tu d y Gu ide
Wo rk o n p lac in g n otes ch ro no log ic ally b y region:
Prehistory (Australopithecus, Homo erectus, Neanderthal, Cro-Magnon)
Southwest Asia and Indo-Europeans (Mesopotamia, Phoenicians, Achaemenids, Seleucids, Parthians, Sasanids, Persia)
Mediterranean & Africa (Egypt, 59-84, Minoans, Mycenaeans, Greece, Rome, Byzantines)
South Asia (Harappan, Aryans, Classical India, Gupta)
East Asia (China – Xia, Shang, Zhou, Qin, Han, Sui, Tang, Song, Japan)
Trade Networks (Indian Ocean, Silk Roads)
* The g oal wo uld b e to line up the ‘ timelines’ to better be able to co mp are/ co ntras t peo p les during
similar time p eriod s (6 themes )
Peop le to K no w:
(any religion founder)
Hammurabi
Han Wudi
Wang Mang
Confucius
Siddhartha Guatama
(Buddha)
Chandragupta Maurya
Ashoka
Pericles
Augustus
Justinian
Constantine
Lui Bang
Phillip of Macedonia
Alexander (The Great)
Aristotle
Th emes to Co ns id er (fro m th e AP co u rs e man u al)
Nature of Neolithic and Agricultural Revolutions (and early civilizations)
Collapse of Empires (Han, Rome... basically the Classical Civilizations)
Compare/contrast world belief systems, place religions into their consequent region/peoples, and diffusion
The Caste System and systems of social inequality
Trading systems
Political structures of early civilizations
AP Wo rld His tor y I – M id ter m S tu d y Gu ide
Wo rk o n p lac in g n otes ch ro no log ic ally b y region:
Prehistory (Australopithecus, Homo erectus, Neanderthal, Cro-Magnon)
Southwest Asia and Indo-Europeans (Mesopotamia, Phoenicians, Achaemenids, Seleucids, Parthians, Sasanids, Persia)
Mediterranean & Africa (Egypt, 59-84, Minoans, Mycenaeans, Greece, Rome, Byzantines)
South Asia (Harappan, Aryans, Classical India, Gupta)
East Asia (China – Xia, Shang, Zhou, Qin, Han, Sui, Tang, Song, Japan)
Trade Networks (Indian Ocean, Silk Roads)
* The g oal wo uld b e to line up the ‘ timelines’ to better be able to co mp are/ co ntras t peo p les during
similar time p eriod s (6 themes )
Peop le to K no w:
(any religion founder)
Hammurabi
Han Wudi
Wang Mang
Confucius
Siddhartha Guatama
(Buddha)
Chandragupta Maurya
Ashoka
Pericles
Augustus
Justinian
Constantine
Lui Bang
Phillip of Macedonia
Alexander (The Great)
Aristotle
Th emes to Co ns id er (fro m th e AP co u rs e man u al)
Nature of Neolithic and Agricultural Revolutions (and early civilizations)
Collapse of Empires (Han, Rome... basically the Classical Civilizations)
Compare/contrast world belief systems, place religions into their consequent region/peoples, and diffusion
The Caste System and systems of social inequality
Trading systems
Political structures of early civilizations