MAKE THE MOST OUT OF
EVERY PERIOD.
AP WORLD HISTORY
AP STANDARDS FOR PERIOD 2
• Period 2: The Organization and reorganization
of Human Societies, 600 BCE to 600 CE
• Key Concept 2.1. The Development and
codification of Religious and Cultural Traditions.
• Key Concept 2.2. The Development of State and
Empires.
• Key Concept 2.3. Emergences of Transregional
Networks of Communication and Exchange.
ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS
• What are the classical civilization?
• How do the classical Civilizations compare?
• How do Greece, Rome, China, and India including
Migration of the Huns & Germanic Tribes Compare?
• What were the early trade networks?
• Why were they Important?
• How did the Roman Empire become so powerful?
• What did the map look like in social studies class
during this period in time?
I. RISE OF EARLY STATES AND EMPIRES.
A. Over views.
a. Grew in numbers, size, and population.
b. Competed for resources.
c. Conflict rose between empires.
d. Searched for land, wealth, and security.
e. Some dramatically expanded in size
B. Large empires.
a. power military.
b. administrative institutions.
c. organized human activities over long distances.
d. new groups of military & political elite
managed affairs.
I. CONTINUED:
RISE OF EARLY STATES AND EMPIRES
C. Expanding boundaries meant
a. New policies and procedures to govern.
b. Build an ethnical and cultural relationship with diverse
populations.
i. integrate or exclude diverse population with imperial
society.
D. Empire success
a. some fell to their own success.
b. expanded too far.
c. created political, cultural, and administrative problems
they couldn’t handle.
d. experienced environmental, social, and economic
problems through over exploitation of lands & subjects.
e. permitted excessive wealth to the privileged.
II. NUMBER AND SIZE OF KEY STATES
AND EMPIRES.
A. Growth caused Imposed political unity on areas of
competing states.
B. Required examples of key states and empires.
a. Southwest Asia: Persian Empire.
b. East Asia: Qin and Han Empire.
c. South Asia: Maurya and Gupta Empire.
d. Mediterranean region: Phoenicia & its
colonies, Greek city-states & colonies,
& Hellenistic & Roman Empires.
e. Mesoamerica: Teotihuacan, Maya city-states.
f. Andean South America: Moche.
PERSIAN EMPIRE
QIN EMPIRE
HAN EMPIRE
MAURYA EMPIRE
GUPTA EMPIRE
PHOENICIA AND ITS COLONIES.
GREEK CITY STATES
HELLENISTIC EMPIRE
ROMAN EMPIRE
TEOTIHUACAN EMPIRE/AZTEC
MAYA CITY STATES
MOCHE