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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. 
Link to "A History of the World in Six Glasses" by Tom Standage - Summer Reading
AP World Has 6 Time Periods. Know your PERIODIZATION. Very important!
Period One - Strayer calls it First Humans, First Farmers, First Civilizations
Unit 1: Technical & Environmental Transformations, to 600 BCE
Period 2: A time of Empires, Beginning of Religious Ideology, & Technological progress.
Unit 2: Organizing & Reorganizing of Human Societies, c. 600 BCE to c. 600 CE
Strayer 4, 5, 6, & 7:
Chapter 4: Eurasian Empires
Chapter 5: Eurasian Cultural Traditions
Chapter 6: Eurasian Social Inequalities
Chapter 7: Classical Era Variations
This is maybe the most crucial time period we have in WHAP. TRADE - Before Columbian Exchange.
Unit 3: Regional & Trans-regional Interactions, c. 600 C.E. to c. 1450
Unit 3, Part I - Chapters 8 & 9
Chapter 8: Commerce & Culture
Chapter 9: China & The World: East Asian Connections
Unit 3, Part II - Chapters 10 & 11
Chapter 10: European Christendom
Chapter 11: Worlds of Islam
Unit 3, Part III - Chapters 12 & 13
Chapter 12: Pastoral Peoples on the Global Stage - The Mongol Moment
Chapter 13: The Worlds of the 15th Century
SPRING SEMESTER
The beginning of the 2nd semester ushers in a new global economy. Columbian Exchange, Silver Trade, & Slavery.
Unit 4: Global Interactions, c. 1450 to c. 1750
Unit 4 - The Early Modern World, 1450 - 1750
Chapter 14: Empires & Encounters
Chapter 15: Global Commerce
Chapter 16: Religion & Science
Period 5 is the rise of Europe as a powerful group of nations. Industry, Colonization, Empire, & Control.
Unit 5: Industrialization and the Global Integration, c. 1750 to c. 1900
Part I: Chapters 17 & 18 - Revolutions
Chapter 17: Atlantic Revolutions
Chapter 18: Industrial Revolution
Part II: Chapters 19 & 20 - Colonialism & Imperialism
Chapter 19: Internal Troubles, External Threats
Chapter 20: Colonial Encounters

Strayer begins Unit 6 with the European Collapse: The Wars of the 20th Century. We end it with Globalization.
Unit 6 - The Most Recent Century, 1914 - 2010
Part I: Chapters 21 & 22 - EUROPEAN COLLAPSE
Chapter 21: Collapse & Recovery of Europe
Chapter 22: Rise and Fall of World Communism
Part II: Chapters 23 & 24 - RISE OF GLOBAL SOUTH
Chapter 23: Independence in the Global South
Chapter 24: Accelerating Global Interactions Since 1945