2016 AP World Summer Reading Assignment
You are to read Chapters 1-3 (roughly 95 pages) of the textbook “The Earth and Its Peoples” AP Edition
by Bulliet et al. ISBN -13: 978-1-4390-8608-7. You may check out your text book for the summer. There
is also an on-line version of the text available at
http://www.lindblomeagles.org/ourpages/auto/2012/8/9/53532161/The_Earth_and_Its_Peoples__5th
%20Edition_.pdf. (Warning- it may take a little bit to load since it is the whole book).
Join the Edmodo group 2015 AP World Summer Assignment, group code xkdz62, for electronic
templates mentioned below. Sample is also on back of this sheet. Can be recreated using table feature
in Word.
Using the available PIRATES templates, fill in all appropriate information in the appropriate columns
related to each of the following cultures listed below (they are in order of read in the chapters). See
model on Neolithic culture to help guide you in synthesis (compress/put in your own words) and depth.
Notes can be typed using the electronic template or handwritten into the template.
This work is representative of about 6-8 hours of work. This will allow us to get an early acceleration so
that we will be able to set aside two weeks of review for the national test the second semester.
There will be a diagnostic test the first week of school on this information. Your first comparative
essay(s) will reflect this material as well. This is also a demonstration of your work ethic which is the
most important trait in completing collegiate level work.
My e-mail is [email protected] or Mrs. Jolle [email protected] if you have any issues or
questions.
Cultures listed in order for chapters 1-3:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
11.
12.
13.
Mesopotamia
Early Egypt
Indus Valley
Early China
Nubia
Celtic Europe
Olmec
Chavin
New Kingdom Egypt
Crete/Mycenaean Greece
Assyrian Empire
Israel
Phoenicia
Note Taking Rubric
Developing
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Notes are incomplete or spotty
at best. Not all material from
chapter represented.
Notes show little synthesis or
analysis of material. Looks like
lists or verbatim copy from the
chapter.
Notes are hand-written and
possibly illegible. Seem
hurried.
Notes not in the prescribed
format and do not feature well
written topic sentences or
conclusions
Proficient
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Notes are mostly complete for
the range of material in the
chapter. Details are mostly
logical.
Notes show synthesis and
analysis of the material by
student reducing and
rewording content contained
within the chapter.
Notes are typed or
handwritten neatly in the
prescribed template.
Notes are in the prescribed
format.
Distinguished
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Notes are complete and
include analysis and synthesis
of the whole range of material
within the chapter. Details are
in a well-organized format.
Notes show extensive
synthesis and analysis to the
point that 30+ pages of
material have been reduced to
the core ideas of the chapter
and streamlined.
Notes are typed and in a
prescribed format and may be
electronic.
**** Electronic notes will be submitted to Turnitin.com on the due date. They cannot exceed 30%
originality. Shared notes will be punished as a honor code violation. DO YOUR OWN WORK!
PIRATES
Cultures
Chapter :
Political
Intellectual
Religions
Art/Architecture
Technology
Economic
Social
Notes Chapter: 1
Legend- purple = dates
P
I
Politics
Intellectual
No sharp conflicts
between farmers and
foragers due to slow
spread of agriculture. Took
3000 years in Europe.
6500-3500 BCE
Early societies had female
rule in some cases.
Kikuyu men (Kenya)
overthrew by conspiring to
impregnate all the women
making them weak.
Matriarchy-rule by women
Culture:
Neolithic
red = terms
blue = culture
A
R
Religion
Hunting powerful force
Ancestor worship due to
rather than farming- men kinship.
buried with weapons and
art depicted hunt scenes Elaborate ritualism
Art and
Architecture
Megaliths- big stones for
religion
T
E
S
Technology
Economics
Society
Obsidian tools
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Mother Earth
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Sky God (male)
Unlike foragers who
centered on sacred natural
objects like groves, animals
etc.
People buried with hunting
weapons not farm tools
Catal Hüyük
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Early farmers led shorter
lives than foragers-
Pottery
2000 BCE Stonehenge
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Religious shrine Central courtyards and
for every two
wide doors
houses
Female
8000 BCE Jericho- walled
dominated
settlement
Bulls, breasts,
handprints,
7000-5000 BCE Catal
leopards,
goddesses adorn Hüyük- entered through
hole in roof, contiguous
shrines
Plump female wall, no windows or doors.
deities
outnumbered Wall paintings of hunting
male deities
scenes
Cult priestesses
buried in shrines
Cultivation
Clearing land
Moving herds
Poor harvests
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Physically
shorter
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Poor nutrition
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Disease due to
Weaved baskets
massing and
5000 BCE Burial
close contact
Stone
and
shell
beads
chambers/mounds Egypt
with animals
Storage of food key to settled
Reliability
of
food supply
life and development of
leads to more farmers than
specialized crafts.
foragers.
By 6400 BCE Metalworking
Earliest towns of Jericho
and Catal Hüyük in Middle in copper, gold, lead, and
Nuclear Family- two parents
silver
east.
and unmarried children.
Land held by large kinship
groups called lineages or
Plastered, rectangular
Patrilineal- descent through
clans.
rooms
father
Woolen cloth
Farmer Deities-
Farmers tougher life than
foragers-
Matrilineal- descent
through mother
Catal Hüyük- long distance
trade of obsidian (hard
volcanic rock that is polished)
tools and artifacts.
Non-farmers such as
artisans and priests had
food provided by farmers
who had to grow more than
Catal Hüyük- centered on
they needed.
agriculture
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Barley
Wheat
Legumes (beans)
Vegetables