Ap world history course description

The purpose of the AP World History course is to develop greater understanding of the evolution of global processes and contacts in different types of human societies. This understanding is advanced through a combination of selective factual knowledge and appropriate analytical skills. The course highlights the nature of changes in global frameworks and their causes and consequences, as well as comparisons among major societies. It emphasizes relevant factual knowledge, leading interpretive issues, and skills in analyzing types of historical evidence. Periodization, explicitly discussed, forms an organizing principle to address change and continuity throughout the course. Specific themes provide further organization to the course, along with consistent attention to contacts among societies that form the core of world history as a field of study.

Students must acclimate themselves with the dynamics of continuity and change across the historical periods that are included in the course. Analyzing the processes and causes involved in continuities and changes is a difficult task; however, students will learn to focus on five overarching themes which serve as unifying threads throughout the course. These themes also provide students with an avenue to make comparisons over time and facilitate cross-period questions.

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   Interaction between humans & the environment
   
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      Demography & disease
      
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      Migration
      
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      Patterns of Settlement
      
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      Technology
      
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   Development & interaction of cultures
   
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      Religions
      
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      Belief systems, philosophies, & ideologies
      
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      Science & technology
      
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      Arts & architecture
      
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   State-building, expansion, & conflict
   
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      Political structures & forms of governance
      
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      Empires
      
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      Nations & nationalism
      
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      Revolts & revolutions
      
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      Regional, trans-regional, & global structures and organizations
      
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   Creation, expansion & interaction of economic systems
   
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      Agriculture & pastoral production
      
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      Trade & commerce
      
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      Labor systems
      
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      Industrialization
      
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      Capitalism & socialism
      
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   Development & transformation of social structures
   
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      Gender roles & relations
      
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      Family & kinship
      
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      Racial & ethnic constructions
      
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      Social & economic classes
      

The AP World History course addresses habits of mind in two categories: 1) those addressed by any rigorous history course, and 2) those addressed by a world history course.

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   Constructing and evaluating arguments: using evidence to make plausible arguments
   
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   Using documents and other primary data” developing the skills necessary to analyze point of view and context and to understand and interpret information
   
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   Assessing continuity and change over time and over different world regions
   
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   Understanding diversity of interpretations through analysis of context, point of view, and frame of reference
   

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   Seeing global patterns and processes over time and space while connecting local developments to global ones
   
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   Comparing within and among societies, including comparing societies’ reactions to global processes
   
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   Considering human commonalities and differences
   
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   Exploring claims of universal standards in relation to culturally diverse ideas
   
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   Exploring the persistent relevance of world history in contemporary developments
   

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  Actively participate in class and complete all assignments thoroughly and in a timely manner.
  
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  Attend class if at all possible! If you are forced to miss class you will have two days from the date of your absence to get your make-up work and turn it in to me. If you are absent due to a school activity; you will need to make arrangements to obtain your work prior to the absence and return it to me when you return.
  
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  Each student will maintain a binder for AP World History which will be divided into five sections.
  
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    Notes from class & reading notes
    
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    Graphic Organizers
    
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      Comparison Charts
      
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      PERSIANS
      
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      Conrad Demarast Model of Empires
      
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    Study Guides for each chapter
    
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    Maps—geography
    
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    Returned essays/assignments
    
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  Complete weekly reading assignments to stay up with class discussion and allow yourself to participate in class work. There will be weekly reading quizzes to verify students are keeping up with their assignments.
  
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  Hold yourself to higher standards!
  

8/25-29 Introduction to World History

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  READING ASSIGNMENTS
  
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    Hunters and Gatherers/Stone Age, Neolithic Revolution, Life in Neolithic Communities p, 5-14
    
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    Mesopotamia and the Hittites p. 14-23, 60-62
    
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  WRITING ASSIGNMENTS
  
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    TWEDYADWTS
    
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    PERSIAN Charts
    
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    C-Notes
    
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    SCRIPTED Charts
    
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    SOAPPS-Tone
    

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  READING ASSIGNMENTS
  
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    Egypt, the New Kingdom, and Nubia p. 23-29, 48-51, 63-66
    
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    The Indus Valley p. 29-33
    
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    Shang and Zhou China p. 37-48
    
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    The Olmec and Chavin p. 51-56
    
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    Israel p. 74-80
    
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    Aegean and Phoenicia p. 67-70, 80-86
    
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    Assyria and Early Persia p. 71-74, 93-99
    
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    Foundations of Indian Civilization, Hinduism, and Imperial Expansion/Collapse p, 151-165
    
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    Qin and Imperial Han China p. 139-148
    
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    Southeast Asia p. 165-169
    
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    Rise of the Greeks, Struggle b/t Persia and Greece, Hellenistic Synthesis p. 99-119
    
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    Rome and the Mediterranean Empire p. 124-139
    
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    Byzantine Empire p. 219-223
    
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    Silk Road, Indian Ocean, Routes Across the Sahara, Sub-Saharan Africa (inc. Bantu), and Spread of Ideas p. 174-190
    
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  WRITING ASSIGNMENTS
  
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    TWEDYADWTS
    
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    PERSIAN Charts
    
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    SCRIPTED Charts
    
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    SOAPPS-Tone
    
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    Conrad Demarest Model of an Empire
    
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    Timed Comparison Essay 9/12
    
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  FOUNDATIONS EXAM 9/26
  

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  READING ASSIGNMENTS
  
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    Kievan Russia (with the Byzantine) p. 231-234
    
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    Origins of Islam, Rise and Fall of the Caliphates p. 197-208
    
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    Islamic Civilization p. 208-215
    
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    Early Medieval Europe, 600-1000, the Western Church p. 223-231
    
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    Western Europe Revives (the Crusades) p. 234-240
    
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    Rural Growth and Crisis ( the Plague and Urban Revival) p. 350-364
    
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    The Maya, Toltecs and Aztecs p. 268-277
    
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    Andean Civilizations and the Inca p. 281-289
    
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    Sui and Tang Chine, Fractured Power in Central Asia and China (Song) p. 244-261
    
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    Emergence of East Asia to 1200 and Centralization (Japan, Korea, and Vietnam) and Militarism in East Asia, 1200-1500 p. 261-264
    

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  SPECIAL READING ASSIGNMENTS
  
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    STEARNS—Comparing Feudalism p. 296-298
    
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    Rise of the Mongols and their Regional Impact p. 295-312
    
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    Tropical Land and Peoples, New Islamic Empires, Indian Ocean Trade, the Resulting Social and Cultural Change p. 325-347
    
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  WRITING ASSIGNMENTS
  
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    TWEDYADWTS
    
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    PERSIAN Charts
    
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    SCRIPTED Charts
    
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    SOAPPS-Tone
    
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    Conrad Demarest Model of an Empire
    
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    Timed Document Based Question 10/3
    
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    Timed Change and Continuity Over Time Essay 10/24
    
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  POST-CLASSICAL EXAM 11/7
  

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  READING ASSIGNMENTS
  
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    Global Maritime Expansion pre-1450 and European Expansion p. 376-399
    
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    Colombian Exchange, 431-434
    
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    Spanish America and Brazil, French Colonies in North America, Colonial Expansion p. 434-454
    
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    Plantations in the West Indies, Plantation Life in the 18^th Century, Creating the Atlantic Economy (mercantilism, capitalism, etc) p. 458-473
    
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    The Ottoman and Safavid Empires p. 485-500
    
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    Early and Later Ming, Early Qing Empires (1500-1800) p. 312-316, 516-525
    
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    Decentralization and Innovation in Tokugawa Japan p. 511-516
    
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    Africa, the Atlantic, and Islam p. 473-481
    
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    The Mughal Empire, 1526-1761, Trade and Empires in the Indian Ocean p. 500-507
    
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    Learning, Literature, & the Renaissance; Political and Military Transformations p. 364-373
    
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    European Culture and Ideas (Reformation), Political Innovation (Fall of HRE, Religious Politics, Monarchs in England and France) p. 405-409, 418-427
    
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    Realm of Ideas (Traditional Thinking, Witch Hunts, Scientific Revolution, Early Enlightenment), Social and Economic Life (social relations, eco policy, etc.) p. 409-418
    
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    Triumph of the Russian Empire; Comparison of China, Russia, and Japanese Empires p. 525-533
    
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  WRITING ASSIGNMENTS
  
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    TWEDYADWTS
    
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    PERSIAN Charts
    
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    SCRIPTED Charts
    
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    SOAPPS-Tone
    
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    Conrad Demarest Model of an Empire
    
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    Timed Comparison Essay 11/14
    
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    Timed Document Based Question 12/12
    
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  EARLY MODERN EXAM 12/17
  
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  SEMESTER EXAMS 12/18-19
  

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  WRITING ASSIGNMENTS
  
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    The American Revolution, 1775-1800 p. 541-552
    
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    The French Revolution, 1789-1815 p. 552-561
    
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    Revolution Spread, Conservatives Respond 1789-1850 p. 561-565
    
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    Independence in Latin America p. 593-598
    
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    Problem of Order in the Western Hemisphere p. 599-609
    
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    The Challenge of Economic and Social Change (AMERICAS) p. 610-620
    
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    Causes of the IR, The Technological Revolution, Impact of the IR, New Economic and Political Ideas, Industrialization and the Non-Industrial World p. 569-590
    
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    Ideological and Political Responses to Industrialization p. 615-618
    
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    Second Industrial Revolution p. 681-685
    
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    Changes and Exchanges in Africa, India Under British Rule, Britain’s Eastern Empire p. 624-647
    
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    Qing Empire (Opium War, Taipang, Decentralization) p. 667-675
    
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    New Imperialism, Motives and Methods p. 708-732
    
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    European Social Transformations and Labor Movements p. 685-691
    
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    Nationalism an dthe Unification of Germany, 1871-1900, Great Powers of Europe p. 691-700
    
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    Japan Joins the Great Powers p. 700-705
    
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    The Ottoman Empire and the European Model p. 651-663
    
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    The Russian Empire (Russia and Europe, Russia, and Asia) p. 663-667
    

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  WRITING ASSIGNMENTS
  
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    TWEDYADWTS
    
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    PERSIAN Charts
    
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    SCRIPTED Charts
    
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    SOAPPS-Tone
    
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    Conrad Demarest Model of an Empire
    
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    Timed Continuity and Change Over Time Essay 1/16
    
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    Timed Comparison Essay 2/6
    
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  Modern Exam 2/13
  

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    The “Great War” and the Russian Revolution 1914-1918, Peace and Dislocation in Europe 1919-1929 p. 736-750
    
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    China and Japan: Contrasting Dynasties p. 750-752
    
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    The New Middle East (Post WWII) p. 752-757
    
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    Society, Culture, and Technology in the Industrialized World p. 757-762
    
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    The Depression and the Rise of Fascism p. 769-776
    
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    East Asia 1931-1945 p. 776-779
    
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    Stalin’s Revolution p. 766-769
    
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    The Second Cold War/The Character of Warfare p. 779-790
    
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    The Cold War p. 821-830
    
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    The End of the Bipolar World 1989-1991 p. 858-862
    
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    The Mexican Revolution 1910-1940, Argentina and Brazil 1900-1949 p. 807-815
    
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    Sub-Saharan Africa 1900-1945, Indian Independence p. 794-807
    
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    Decolonization and Nation Building p. 830-839
    
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    Japan and China, The Middle East (IN Beyond the Bipolar World) p. 840-844
    
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    Postcolonial Crisis and Asian Economic Expansion 1900-1949 p. 848-858
    
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    Challenge of Population Growth p. 862-867
    
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    The Third World (IN Beyond the Bipolar World) p. 839-840
    
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    Unequal Development and the Movement of Peoples, Technological and Environmental Change p. 867-875
    
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    A Fragmented World p. 879-893
    
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    Struggles for Rights p. 893-897
    
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    Elements of Global Culture p. 897-904
    
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  WRITING ASSIGNMENTS
  
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    TWEDYADWTS
    
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    PERSIAN Charts
    
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    SCRIPTED Charts
    
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    SOAPPS-Tone
    
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    Conrad Demarest Model of an Empire
    
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    Timed Document Based Question 2/27
    
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    Timed Continuity and Change Over Time 3/27
    
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  CONTEMPORARY EXAM 4/3
  

4/13-17 POST CLASSICAL 600-1450 REVIEW

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  Timed Comparison Essay
  

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  Timed Document Based Question
  

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  Timed Continuity and Change Over Time Essay
  

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  Timed Practice Exam