APWH

APWH Course Planning and Pacing, Mrs. Kavet

Unit 1: Period 1. Technological and Environmental Transformations

to c. 600 B.C.E. (2 weeks) {by approx. Sept. 8^th}

Period I – Technological and Environmental Transformations to 600 B.C.E.

• Key Concept 1.1. Big Geography and the Peopling of the Earth

• Key Concept 1.2. The Neolithic Revolution and Early Agricultural Societies

• Key Concept 1.3. The Development and Interactions of Early Agricultural, Pastoral and

Urban Societies

Topics for Discussion

• Neolithic Revolution

• Basic features of early civilizations: Mesopotamia, Egypt, Kush, Indus, Shang, Mesoamerican and Andean

• How does a civilization interact with its environment?

Big Era 2 and 3

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Unit 2: Period 2. Organization and Reorganization of Human Societies,

c. 600 B.C.E. to c. 600 C.E. (4 weeks) {by approx. Oct. 6^th}

Period II – Organization and reorganization of Human Societies, 600 B.C.E to 600 C.E.

• Key Concept 2.1. The Development and Codification of Religious and Cultural Traditions

• Key Concept 2.2. The Development of States and Empires

• Key Concept 2.3. Emergence of Transregional Networks of Communication and Exchange

Topics for Discussion

• Major Belief systems: Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity, Confucianism,

• and Daoism; polytheism and shamanism

• Classical civilizations: Greece, Rome, China and India including migrations of the

• Huns, Germanic tribes

• Interregional networks by 600 CE and spread of belief systems

• Silk Road trade networks, Chinese model and urbanizations

Big Era 4

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Unit 3: Period 3. Regional and Transregional Interactions,

c. 600 C.E. to c. 1450 (6 weeks) {by approx. Dec. 1^st}

Period 3: Regional and Transregional Interactions, c. 600 C.E. to 1450

• Key Concept 3.1. Expansion and Intensification of Communication and Exchange

Networks

• Key Concept 3.2. Continuity and Innovation of State Forms and Their Interactions

• Key Concept 3.3. Increased Economic Productive Capacity and Its Consequences

Topics for Discussion

• The Islamic World, the Crusades and Schism in Christianity

• European and Japanese feudalism

• Mongols across Eurasia and urban destruction in SW Asia, Black Death

• Bantu and Polynesian migrations

• Great Zimbabwe and Mayan empires and urbanizations

• Aztec and Incan empires and urbanization

• Ming Treasure Ships and Indian Ocean trade (Swahili Coast)

Big Era 5

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Unit 4: Period 4. Global Interactions, c. 1450 to c. 1750       (6 to 7 weeks) {by approx. Jan. 26^th)

Period 4: Global Interactions 1450 to 1750

• Key Concept 4.1. Globalizing Networks of Communication and Exchange

• Key Concept 4.2. New Forms of Social Organization and Modes of Production

• Key Concept 4.3. State Consolidation and Imperial Expansion

Topics for Discussion

• Transformations in Europe – Renaissance to Scientific Revolution

• Encounters and Exchange: Reconquista, Europe in Africa, Spanish in the Americas

• Encounters and Exchange: Portuguese and Indian Ocean Trade networks, Southwest

Asian trade networks and the Ming Slave trade/Rise of Qing

• Labor Systems in the Atlantic World—The Africanization of the Americas

• The Columbian Exchange in Atlantic and Pacific Context

• Expansion of Global Economy and Absolutism: Muslim, Tokugawa, and Romanov

empires

• Effects of the Atlantic Slave Trade on demography in West Africa, resistance to the

Atlantic slave trade and expansion of Islam in sub-Saharan Africa

Big Era 6

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Unit 5: Period 5. Industrialization and Global Integration,

c. 1750 to c. 1900 (6 to 7 weeks) {by approx. March 9^th}

Period 5: Industrialization and Global Integration, 1750 to 1900

• Key Concept 5.1. Industrialization and Global Capitalism

• Key Concept 5.2. Imperialism and Nation—State Formation

• Key Concept 5.3. Nationalism, Revolution and Reform

• Key Concept 5.4. Global Migration

Topics for Discussion

• European Enlightenment

• American, French, Haitian, and Latin American Revolutions

• Napoleonic Wars/Congress of Vienna/ Conservatism vs. Liberalism

• British Industrial Revolution

• De-Industrialization of India and Egypt

• Imperialism and Modernization

• Anti-Slavery, suffrage, labor movements, anti-imperialist movements, non-

 industrial reactions

• Reaction to industrialism and modernization

Big Era 7

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Unit 6: Period 6. Accelerating Global Change and Realignments,

c. 1900 to the Present (6 to 7 weeks) {by approx. April 27^th}

Period 6: Accelerating Global Change and Realignments, 1900 - Present

• Key Concept 6.1. Science and the Environment

• Key Concept 6.2. Global Conflicts and Their Consequences

• Key Concept 6.3. New Conceptualizations of Global Economy, Society and Culture

Topics for Discussion

• World War I, Total War, and Reactions to the Fourteen Points

• Rise of Consumerism and Internalization of Culture

• Depression and Authoritarian Responses

• World War II and Forced Migrations

• United Nations and Decolonization

• Cold War, Imperialism, and the End of the Cold War

• The Information and Communication Technologies Revolution

Big Era 8 and 9