APWH

APWH Spring 2016 Review Sessions, Kavet, all sessions are in room 14. (Lunch sessions are from 10:50 to 11:20am, after school sessions are from 3pm to 4pm, Saturday morning sessions are from 9 to 10:30am). For credit you must plan to attend the whole session and be on time.

April 4^th lunch, ‘civilization’ defined

April 5^th After School, Neolithic Revolution

April 7^th After School, religious beliefs: The Vedic religion, Hebrew monotheism, Zoroastrianism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Daoism, Christianity, ancestor veneration

April 8^th lunch, Greco-Roman philosophy, culture and science

April 12^th After School, key states and empires: Southwest Asia: Persian Empires

East Asia: Qin and Han Empire South Asia: Maurya and Gupta Empires Mediterranean region: Phoenicia and its colonies, Greek, Hellenistic, and Roman Empires and Mesoamerica

April 13^th lunch, empires and cities environmental damage: Deforestation, Desertification,

Soil erosion, silted rivers

April 14^th After School, Land and water routes for transregional trade: Eurasian Silk Roads,

Trans-Saharan caravan routes, Indian Ocean sea lanes, Mediterranean Sea lanes

April 16^th Saturday morning (room 14) 9am to 10:30am, expansion of empires: China, The Byzantine Empire, The Caliphates, and The Mongols

April 18^th After School, Impact of migrations: the diffusion of languages, slavery, diasporic communities

April 21st After School, Empires collapse states emerge, Islamic States, City States, Dynasties

April 22nd lunch, interregional travelers: Ibn Battuta Marco Polo Zheng He, Matteo Ricci etc.

April 25^th After School, Interactions between hemispheres create Innovations in visual & performing arts

April 27th lunch, technological and cultural transfers and synthesis

April 28th lunch, labor sources and organization, coerced labor

May 3rd After School, Imperial Expansion and systems of central control

May 5th lunch, Columbian Exchange

May 7th Saturday morning (room 14) 9am to 10:30am, Maritime Empires, piracy, opium,

May 9th After School, Industrialism and Capitalism

May 10th After School, Nationalism and Revolution and Independence

May 11th lunch, The dissolution of the Soviet Union

May 12th is your College Board exam. Please gather in room 14 by 7am.