AP WORLD HISTORY
(Secondary)
ESSENTIAL UNIT 1 (E01)
(Technological and Environmental Transformations)
(to 600 BCE)
(July 2012)
Unit Statement: In this unit, the student will explore the shift in human organization from
small bands of foragers to the formation of urban-based societies characterized by settled
agriculture and trade. There are three key concepts in this unit including Big Geography
and the Peopling of the Earth, Neolithic Revolutions and Early Agricultural Societies, and
the Development and Interactions of Early Agricultural, Pastoral and Urban Societies.
Essential Outcomes: (assessed for mastery)
1. The Student Will analyze archaeological evidence that shows migration patterns
from their origin in East Africa to Eurasia, Australia, and the Americas, as well
as how early man adapted their technology and cultures to new climate regions.
2. T SW examine ways in which the Neolithic R evolution led to the development of
new and more complex economic and social systems.
3. T SW identify and describe early agricultural societies that emerged in
Mesopotamia, the Nile River Valley and Sub-Saharan Africa, the Indus
River Valley, the Yellow River or Huang He Valley, Papua New Guinea,
Mesoamerica, and the Andes.
4. T SW identify different crops and animals that were domesticated in the various
regions.
5. T SW examine how agricultural and pastoral practices drastically impacted
ecological diversity.
6. T SW describe how pastoralism and agriculture increased populations, allowing for
specialization of labor; creating hierarchical social stratifications in societies.
7. TSW examine technological innovations such as pottery, plows, textiles,
metallurgy, and the wheel and discuss how they led to improvements in
agricultural production, trade, and transportation.
8. TSW discuss the growth and expansion of the early state under authoritarian rule.
9. TSW identify new weapons and modes of transportation that allowed for the
expansion of early states.
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10. TSW examine how culture played a significant role in unifying early states
through laws, language, literature, religion, myths, and monumental art.
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Suggested Materials:
Basic Resource: Traditions and Encounters Chapter 1-6
Additional Resource: Documents in World History
The Human Record: Volume I
Mesopotamian Values: Ideas About the nature of
Life and Death: The Epic of Gilgamesh
Babylonian Law: How an Early State Regulated its
Subjects: Hammurabi’s Code of Law
Egypt: Religious Culture and the Afterlife: Book Of the Dead
Temple Reliefs: Egypt and Nubia
Seals from: Mesopotamia, Harrapan India, and Minoan Crete
Book of Documents: Illustration of the Mandate of Heaven
Life, Death, and the Gods in Aryan India: The Rig Veda
Israelites and their Neighbors: Excerpts from the Books of
Genesis and Deuteronomy
Other Sources: Books and periodicals, Princeton AP Review, AP Achiever McGraw Hill
AP Exam Prep Guide
Technology Links:
http://highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/0072424354/student_view0/
http://worldhistoryforusall.sdsu.edu/dev/default.htm
http://www.fordham.edu/HALSALL/ancient/asbook.html
Mandatory Assessments:
1. Teacher generated multiple choice exams. The majority of the questions
should require students to use higher order thinking skill of synthesis and
evaluation that allows the student to combine knowledge and skills across
the unit. The exam should be structured in a way that approximately 25%
of the exam includes diagrams, graphs, and/or maps. Teachers may create
their own questions or use questions from several published AP World
History examination books.
2. Teacher generated or AP published free-response questions. Free response
questions can be generated directly from the teacher, or they may use intext critical thinking questions or questions included in any AP World
History examination book. However, the teacher would have to create a
unique rubric for each of these generated questions. Also, free-response
questions can be taken directly from AP Central site with pre-determined
rubrics already created to use as an assessment tool.
RUBRIC FOUND ON FOLLOWING PAGE…………………………………..
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Unit Rubric
Name:_____________________________________________________________
‘A’
Essential Criteria
Multiple Choice Unit
Exam (s) (% is only used to
90% or better
‘B’
‘IP’
80% - 89%
help the student understand
AP scoring)
Free Response Question
8 or better
Other Criteria
5-7
Study Guide
Notes
Homework
The student must receive a 90% or better and an 8 or better on the multiple choice
and free response respectively (essential criteria) as well as get at least 3 out of 5
A’s on the other criteria to receive an A for the unit. (% is only used to help the student
understand AP scoring)
The student must receive an 80% - 89% and a 5 - 7 on the multiple choice and free
response respectively (essential criteria) as well as get all B’s on the other criteria
to receive a B for the unit. (% is only used to help the student understand AP scoring)
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