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A.P. WORLD HISTORY:

A.P. WORLD HISTORY:. THEMES. S.C.R.I.P.T.E.D. SOCIAL, GENDER, WORKERS. HIERARCHIES INEQUALITIES, ELITES. CULTURAL: ARTS, INTELLECT. RELIGIOUS AND PHILOSOPHICAL. How does each society view, explain the world?. INTERACTIONS War, Diplomacy, Exchanges.

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A.P. WORLD HISTORY:

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  1. A.P. WORLD HISTORY: THEMES

  2. S.C.R.I.P.T.E.D.

  3. SOCIAL, GENDER, WORKERS HIERARCHIES INEQUALITIES, ELITES

  4. CULTURAL: ARTS, INTELLECT

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

  6. INTERACTIONSWar, 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 • 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 • 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 • 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 • 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

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