SUMMER & FALL SEMESTER
Mr. Duez's Advice to Incoming WHAP Students:
SUMMER READING ASSIGNMENT:
All AP & Dual Credit Social Studies courses have summer reading. WHAP is no exception.
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| Link to "A History of the World in Six Glasses" by Tom Standage - Summer Reading |
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| AP World Has 6 Time Periods. Know your PERIODIZATION. Very important! |
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| Period One - Strayer calls it First Humans, First Farmers, First Civilizations |
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| Period 2: A time of Empires, Beginning of Religious Ideology, & Technological progress. |
Strayer 4, 5, 6, & 7:
Chapter 4: Eurasian Empires
Chapter 5: Eurasian Cultural Traditions
Chapter 6: Eurasian Social Inequalities
Chapter 7: Classical Era Variations
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| This is maybe the most crucial time period we have in WHAP. TRADE - Before Columbian Exchange. |
Chapter 8: Commerce & Culture
Chapter 9: China & The World: East Asian Connections
Chapter 10: European Christendom
Chapter 11: Worlds of Islam
Chapter 12: Pastoral Peoples on the Global Stage - The Mongol Moment
Chapter 13: The Worlds of the 15th Century
SPRING SEMESTER
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| The beginning of the 2nd semester ushers in a new global economy. Columbian Exchange, Silver Trade, & Slavery. |
Chapter 14: Empires & Encounters
Chapter 15: Global Commerce
Chapter 16: Religion & Science
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| Period 5 is the rise of Europe as a powerful group of nations. Industry, Colonization, Empire, & Control. |
Chapter 17: Atlantic Revolutions
Chapter 18: Industrial Revolution
Chapter 19: Internal Troubles, External Threats
Chapter 20: Colonial Encounters
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| Strayer begins Unit 6 with the European Collapse: The Wars of the 20th Century. We end it with Globalization. |
Chapter 21: Collapse & Recovery of Europe
Chapter 22: Rise and Fall of World Communism
Chapter 23: Independence in the Global South
Chapter 24: Accelerating Global Interactions Since 1945
