1. A.P. WORLD HISTORY:
THEMES

2. S.C.R.I.P.T.E.D. SOCIAL STRUCTURES Economic, Social Classes
Gender Roles, Relations
Inequalities
Family, Kinship
Racial, Ethnic Constructs
POLITICS
Nations, nationalism
Empires
Forms of Government
Revolts, Revolutions
State-building, expansion
CULTURE
Cultural
Intellectual
Arts, Architecture
Family, Lifestyles
Literatures
TECHNOLOGY
Industry
Science, Invention, Innovation
Power
Transportation
Communication
RELIGION
Religion
World Views
Philosophy
Secularism, Atheism
Ideologies and “isms”
ECONOMICS
Industrialization
Economic Systems
Capitalism, Socialism
Business Organizations
Labor, Labor Organizations
INTERACTIONS
War, Conflict
Trade, Commerce
Exchanges, Migrations
Diplomacy, Alliances
Transnational Organizations
DEMOGRAPHY
Demography, Disease
Human, Environment Interaction
Patterns of Settlement
Geography, Region
Agriculture, Pastoralism

3. SOCIAL, GENDER, WORKERS
HIERARCHIES
INEQUALITIES,
ELITES

4. CULTURAL: ARTS, INTELLECT

5. RELIGIOUS AND PHILOSOPHICAL
How does each society view, explain the world?

6. INTERACTIONS War, Diplomacy, Exchanges

7. POLITICS: FUNCTIONS & STRUCTURES OF STATES; REVOLUTIONS

8. IMPACT OF TECHNOLOGY

9. ECONOMICS: TRADE, ECONOMIC STSTEMS

10. DEMOGRAPHY & ENVIRONMENT
URBANIZATION, MIGRATION, ECOCIDE

11. CHANGE & CONTINUITY

12. A.P. WORLD HISTORY:
PERIODIZATION

13. WHAT IS PERIODIZATION? Each period is defined by specific conditions
A geographical delineation that answers where
When civilization contracts, shrinks geographically
When civilization spreads from smaller to wider area
Contacts and Interactions
Increase, decrease in contacts across regions
Parallel Developments
Whether indigenous or diffused,
Shared characteristics
Dates
Time is not best way to define a period
Characteristics and chronology
Period may occur
At different time
In different regions

14. PRE-HISTORY Two Sub-Periods of the Stone Age Geographic Component
Paleolithic
Nomadic, hunting and gathering
Small bands led by those with specialized hunting knowledge
Neolithic
Sedentary, farming and herding
Semi-Nomadic: Slash/Burn (Shifting) and Pastoralism
Villages with tribal structures, families; chiefs
Geographic Component
It occurred at different times in different places
Chronological Component
Paleolithic from 1 million to 8000 BCE
Neolithic from 6000 BCE to 4500 BCE
Technology
Stone, bone and wood gave way to handicrafts, artifacts

15. ANCIENT PERIOD Geography: River Valleys From 4,500 BCE to 1,000 BCE
Begins with agricultural surpluses
Leads to towns, cities, changes to hierarchy
Generally small city-states, hereditary rulers
Elite classes especially warriors, priests
Rise of Institutions
Long lasting social patterns
Religion and Government
Time of Technological Innovation
Two Alternate Names
Hearth Civilizations, Ancient River Valley Civilizations
Bronze Age Civilizations
Ends with rise of large, regional empires

16. CLASSICAL PERIOD 1,000 BCE to 500 CE Integrate regions
Iron Age
Large, regional empires
Military aristocracies
Integrate regions
Cosmopolitan Traditions
Religions, Philosophies
Regional Civilizations
China, India, SW Asia (Cuneiform), Mediterranean
Mesoamerica and Andean America
Strong contacts between regional centers
Many areas outside classical civilizations
Ends with massive nomadic invasions

17. POST-CLASSICAL AGE 6th century CE to 1450 CE Characteristics
Began with rise of Islam
First trans-regional civilization
Spans Eurasia and Africa
Era of two great powers: Islam, China
Ended due to Turks, Mongols, Black Death
Characteristics
Spread of universalizing religions, philosophies
Buddhism, Islam, Christianity
Saw rise of new civilization centers
Andes, Sub-Saharan Africa, Europe, SE Asia, Japan
Emergence of network of global contacts
Ages of Faith, Aristocracy,
Age of Increasing Inequalities especially Gender

18. EARLY MODERN ERA 1450 – 1750 CE World Shrinks Great exchanges
Rise of gunpowder empires
An Age of Absolutism
Rise of Western Europe
Religious Strife
World Shrinks
All continents included in world network
Global trade develops for first time
Great exchanges
Goods, products, flora, fauna, people, germs
Ideas especially European, Christianity
Demographic Shifts in Americas, Eurasia

19. MODERN AGE 1750 to 1914: “The West and the Rest”
Era of massive technological change
Era of many revolutions
Technological
Political
Social
Intellectual, Artistic
Vast trade networks
Western Global Hegemony
Great Britain, France, Germany, Russia
USA, Japan are newest powers
Dominance of Western Culture
Resistance
Modernization, Industrialization, Westernization?
Demographic shift; urbanization

20. CONTEMPORARY ERA 1914 to Present “Change, Change, Change”
1914 – 1945: Europe’s Twilight
1945 – Present: Atomic Age
The American Century, Retreat of Europe
Rise of Pacific Rim, India
Collapse of European empires
Jihad vs. McWorld
Modernization vs. westernization
Modernization vs. traditionalism
Secularism vs. change
Rise of new political forms
Non-State Governmental Organizations
Supranationalism; Internationalism
Mass culture
Technology, telecommunications dominate age
Demography and Environment as Major Concerns