AP WORLD HISTORY
(SECONDARY)
ESSENTIAL UNIT 2 (E02)
(Organization and Reorganization of Human Societies)
(c. 600 B.C.E. to c. 600 C.E.)
(July 2012)
Unit Statement: In this unit, the student will examine the organization and reorganization
of human societies with emphasis on three key concepts which include: the Development
and Codification of Religious and Cultural Traditions, the Development of States and
Empires, and the Emergence of Trans-Regional Networks of Communication and
Exchange.
Essential Outcomes: (assessed for mastery)
1. The Student Will examine how the codification of religious traditions provided a
bond among the people and an ethical code to live by.
2. T SW discuss and examine the impact the tenants of new belief systems, such as
Buddhism, Daoism, and Confucianism had on the cultural traditions of
various societies.
3. T SW analyze the influence that Christianity and Buddhism had on gender roles.
4. T SW evaluate artistic expressions, including literature and drama, architecture,
and sculpture, and show how they allowed for cultural development.
5. T SW locate and describe the key states and empires in: Persia, China, South
Asia, the Mediterranean, Mesoamerica, and the Andes.
6. T SW analyze and compare new techniques of imperial administration that states
adopted.
7. T SW examine the unique social and economic dimensions that developed in
societies in Africa and the Americas.
8. T SW examine a city and illustrate how it served as a center of trade, public performance
of religious rituals, and political administration for states and empires.
9. T SW examine the changes and continuities in the social structures of empires.
10. T SW evaluate the decline, collapse, and transformation of the R oman, H an,
Persian, Mauryan, and Gupta empires.
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11. T SW locate and describe land and water routes that became the basis for transregional trade, communication, and exchange in the Eastern H emisphere.
12. T SW describe how new technologies facilitated long distance communication and
exchange.
13. T SW examine the impact of the exchange of people, technology, religious and
cultural beliefs, food crops, domesticated animals, and disease pathogens.
Suggested Materials:
Basic Resource: Traditions and Encounters Chapter 7-12
Additional Resource: Documents in World History
The Human Record: Volume I
Daoism: The Way That Is and Is Not
Confucianism: The Moral Way of the Past
Legalism: The Way of the State
Thucydides: The History of the Peloponnesian War
Socrates: Defense of Philosophy
Art and Human Form: Three Hellenistic Works of Art
The Pax Romana: Tacitus, Agricola, and Annals
Asoka’s Rock and Pillar Edicts
Huan Kuan: Discourses on Salt and Iron
Ban Zhou: Lessons for Women
The Laws of Manu
The State and Economy in India: The Arthashastra
The Opening of the Silk Road: Chinese and
Roman Sources
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
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text 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………………………
AP WORLD HISTORY
E02
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 a 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)
If the student receives any IP’s they must follow the criteria stated in the AP World
History course outcome.
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