1. Chapter 1

2. The Five Themes of AP World History
Theme 1 – Interaction between humans and the environment
Theme 2 – Development and Interaction of Cultures
Theme 3 – State-building, expansion and conflict
Theme 4 – Creation, expansion and interactions of Economic Systems
Theme 5 – Development and transformation of social structures

3. Week Three (August 22-26)
Day 1- Chapter 4 Quiz
Day 2- -( SPICE Chart- Persia and Classical Greece Due)
Week Four (August 28-September 1)
Day 1 Chapter 5 Quiz-
Day 2 –(SPICE Chart- Qin, Han, Roman Republic, Roman Empire Due)
Week Five (September 6-9)
Day 1-Chapter 6 Quiz-
Day 2-(SPICE Chart- Vedic Age, Mauryan and Gupta Due)

4. Think SPICE S- Social P- Political I- Interaction with the environment
Groups within society especially based on gender, or status
P- Political
Who rules, why, military
I- Interaction with the environment
How did people effect the environment- Resources
C- Culture
Things that people develop- Inventions, advancements, arts, sciences, religion
E- Economics
What did people do to make a living- Labor, supply, demand, resources,

5. Period 1 Prehistory-600 BCE
Key Concepts
1.1 Big geography and the peopling of the earth
1.2 The Neolithic Revolution and Early agricultural societies
1.3 The development and interaction of Early Agricultural pastoral and Urban Societies

6. Week One (August 8-12) Day 1-
a. Introduction- analyze population growth over the last 100,000 years (David Christian page 143)
b. Frontload Chapter 1
Day 2- Chapter 1 Quiz (pages 5-32) (Read Gerda Lerner, The Urban Revolution: Origins of Patriarchy)
a. Discuss the Gerda article. Create a chart showing the similarities and differences between hunting gathering societies and agrarian societies.
b. Frontload chapter 2

7. Week Two (August 15-19)
Day 1 -chapter 2 Quiz (pages 39-51, and 54-58) (SPICE Chart- Early River valley civilizations Due)
a. Students will discuss the social and political similarities and differences between Mesopotamia and Ancient Egypt
b. Frontload chapter 3
Day 2- Chapter 3 Quiz ( )( SPICE Chart- China , Latin America Due)
a. Bring Human Record to class---Read The Judgment of Hammurabi, Tale of the Eloquent Peasant, A Pyramid Text, A Coffin Text, and the Negative Confession.
b Students will create a chart labeling the SPICE themes of each river valley civilization

8. Early Humans
Archaeological evidence helped scientists to trace the evolution of human beings over a period of 4 million years.
Homo erectus (1.8 million years ago)
Homo sapiens (400,000 to 100,000 years ago).
Migrations were accompanied by minor physical changes
skin pigmentation
Humans adapted to their new environments through a process of cultural adaptation.

9. Stone Age Paleolithic (Old Stone Age—to 10,000 years ago)
Hunter Gatherers/Foragers
Fire - 1 to 1.5 million years ago
cooking can only be found as far back as 12,500 years ago.
slow maturation rate of human infants causes of the development of the two-parent family
Early Gender roles existed
Free time led to cultural activities:
gathering, organizing and passing on information, art, and religion.
Cave art suggests that Ice Age people had a complex religion.
Their burial sites indicate that they may have believed in an afterlife.
Neolithic (New Stone Age)

10. Neolithic Revolution 10,000 years ago Agricultural revolutions
First Mesopotamia then other regions
Pastoralism
Small towns
Basic religions
Some specialization of labor
Jericho and Çatal Hüyük

11. Mesopotamia Tigris and Euphrates Rivers- unpredictably
3000 b.c.e. -constructing irrigation canals
Sumerians then Semitic
Villages and cities linked through trade-
often warred over resources
Large labor forces
Political institutions
Sargon
Hammurabi
Religious institutions –anthropomorphic gods
The Epic of Gilgamesh
Social classes --Gender, wealth, power, position.
Advancements
Cuneiform, irrigation, transportation technologies bronze metallurgy, brickmaking, engineering, and pottery full-time soldiers, horse-drawn chariot, the bow and arrow, and siege machinery, numbers and made advances in mathematics and astronomy.

12. Egypt Regular flooding, fertile land, but dangerous cataracts
Lacked resources- tended to trade
Old, Middle, and New Kingdoms
Divine Kingship -pharaohs
Mummification -pyramids- Valley of Kings
Politically centered- bureaucracy for ruling- causes tension
Polythiestic religions –Huge temples
Afterlife
3 social classes –little to no slavery
Women were subjugated
2 writing systems
Knowledge of chemistry and anatomy, mathematics, astronomy, calendar making, irrigation, engineering and architecture, and transportation technology.

13. The Indus Valley Civilization
India/Pakistan
Harappa and Mohenjo-daro
Un-deciphered language