HIALEAH GARDENS HIGH SCHOOL

Ms. Gutierrez
A.P. World History Summer Assignments
2010-2011 School Year
m_gutierrez@dadeschools.net

CLASS BLOG: www.historicallyinclined.blogspot.com

Welcome to Advanced Placement World History. AP World History is a college-

level course offered to 9th Graders in HGHS. The AP World History course is divided into
5 major units of study- 8000BCE-600CE, 600-1450, 1450-1750, 1750-1914, and 1914-
present. The main focus of the course is to examine global movements through specific
case studies. In addition to preparing for the AP exam, this course is designed to give
you the skills needed to be highly successful as a college student. In preparation for the
AP exam a strong emphasis is placed on writing skills as well as mastery of content.

Assignments for the AP World History class are extremely challenging. The text
is a college-level textbook and is written at a significantly higher reading level than most
history textbooks. AP World History has a significantly large amount of reading
assignments and students are expected to read daily in preparation for class.

• Do not wait until the last day of vacation to begin this assignment.
• I will be checking my email throughout the summer, please contact me
as soon as you have any questions!
• The assignment is also listed on my blog should you misplace this!
• ALL WORK MUST BE TYPED AND PRINTED OUT! I WILL NOT ACCEPT
ELECTRONIC COPIES!
• All work is due the first day of class. No excuses!
Late work is not accepted.

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APWH Course Themes:

The APWH course is guided by six themes which will receive equal attention throughout
the course:
1. The dynamics of change and continuity across the world history
periods covered in this course, and the causes and processes involved in major
changes of these dynamics.
2. Patterns and effects of interaction among societies and regions: trade, war,
diplomacy and international organizations.
3. The effects of technology, economics and demography on people and the
environment (population growth and decline, disease, labor systems,
manufacturing, migrations agriculture and weaponry.)
4. Systems of social structure and gender structure (comparing major
features within and among societies, and assessing change and continuity).
5. Cultural, intellectual and religious developments, including interactions
among and within societies.
6. Changes in functions and structures of states and attitudes towards states
and political identities (political culture), including the emergence of nation-
state (types of political organization).

Required Texts:

• Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond (See
work on next page)
• The Princeton Review Cracking the AP World History Exam

Additional Recommendations:
The following books or items would be helpful but are not required.

 5 Steps to a 5 in AP World by Peggy Martin

 AP World Flashcards by Lorraine Lupinskie-Huvane

You will be required to have a dictionary for the class and an atlas will help with
summer assignments.

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There are a total of three assignments
Assignment One: Label a World Map

Goal: To identify and label important locations and physical features throughout the
world in order to make pertinent spatial location connections.

Directions: Label a world map* with the list provided. Additionally, create a map key
that shows a symbol of your choice for the following items: capitals, cities, oceans,
rivers, mountain ranges, and deserts. Use color to differentiate bodies of water (oceans,
rivers & lakes, etc), mountain ranges, deserts, etc. Please carefully select the colors you
use to reflect the natural landscape. Draw all features to scale.

I would suggest making some copies of your maps in case of a major goof-up.
The paper size I used is letter size. If it’s not big enough, feel free to make larger
copies of your maps somewhere like FedEx*Kinkos. Bigger is better for labeling
purposes!

In order to accurately label all of the included locations and features, I would
recommend purchasing a relatively inexpensive (no more than $20) World Atlas
from Barnes and Noble (or somewhere similar) to assist in your summer venture
and throughout the year. The internet is also a reliable source for locations
(however, it’s not transportable to the beach).

The following is the list of items to be labeled:

• Continents: Asia, Africa, Antarctica, South America, North America, Europe,

Australia
• Regions: East Asia, Southeast Asia, South Asia, Middle East, North Africa, West
Africa, East Africa, South Africa, Central America, Caribbean
• Major Bodies of Water: All oceans (Pacific, Indian, Atlantic, Arctic), South
China Sea, East China Sea, Sea of Japan, Bay of Bengal, Persian Gulf, Gulf of
Guinea, Mediterranean Sea, Caribbean Sea, North Sea, Baltic Sea, Black Sea,
Red Sea, English Channel, Norwegian Sea, Barents Sea, Adriatic Sea, Aegean
Sea, Caspian Sea, Great Lakes, Arabian Sea
• Rivers: Huang He (Yellow River), Ganges, Indus, Tigris, Euphrates, Nile,
Mississippi, Niger River, Yangtze River, Amazon, Rio Grande, Danube,
• Mountain Ranges and Deserts: Alaska Range, Rocky Mountains, Appalachian
Mountains, Andes Mountains, Alps, Atlas Mountains, Ural, Hindu Kush,
Himalayas, Atacama Desert, Sahara Desert, Gobi Desert, Kalahari Desert,
Namib Desert, Syrian Desert, Great Sandy Desert
• And the following: Balkans, Crimea, Eurasia, Horn of Africa, Cape of Good
Hope, Scandinavia, Meso America, Andean South America, Oceania, Yucatan
Peninsula, Iberian Peninsula, Niger River
• In addition, after completing each chapter on Assignment #2, you will have
items to add to your map.

You may print the blank map found in my blog or find one on-line.

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Assignment Two:

Have a written definition of the following words:

Demography steppe society

Theocracy oligarchy bureaucracy
Dynasty monarchy republic
Empire commerce BCE
CE cultural diffusion ethnocentrism
Matrilineal pastoral pastoral nomads
Tribute Aryans filial piety
Patriarchal feudalism absolutism
Capitalism monotheism polytheism
Socialism coercive emancipation
Civilization revolution edict
Alliance indigenous interdependence

Assignment Three:

Use Guns, Germs and Steel to answer the questions below. You are only
required to read the portions of the book assigned to you.

Chapter One:

Define:
• Pleistocene Era
• Australopithecus Africanus
• Homo Habilis
• Homo Erectus
• Cro-Magnon
• Neanderthals
• Hunter Gatherers
• Radio Carbon Dating

Questions:
1. When looking at evolution and early man, what is left for us to find?
2. Why are remains found in some geographic areas and not others?
3. What did the Cro-Magnon leave behind?
4. What can we glean from these Cro-Magnon sites?
5. What is the role of large mammals in early human civilizations?

List:
The six inhabited continents and what groups of people were there

Chapter Two:

Define:
• Bureaucrat

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Questions:
1. What can be learned from the clash of the Maori and Moriori?
2. What geographic region of the world are the Polynesian people from? Give three
examples.
3. Explain what we know about the Polynesian culture.
4. What were the six environmental factors and how did they affect the
Polynesians?

Chapter Three:

Define:
• Monarch
• Vassal
• Prudence
• Catholic

Identify:
• Pizarro
• Atahuallpa
• Inca
• Cortez
• Aztec

Add Peru and Panama to your map!

Questions:
1. Describe what happened at Cajamarca and what was its long term impact on
human history?
2. Why was Pizarro able to capture Atahuallpa’s men?
3. Why was Atahuallpa at Cajamarca?
4. What role did literacy play in the European invasion of the Americas?

Chapter Four:

Define:
• Domestication of plants and animals
• Nomadic
• Farmer
• Equalitarian

Questions:
1. If there are so many plants, why are so few used as food sources?
2. How did hunter-gathers have to spend their time?
3. Why were horses so important?

List:
What are the seven benefits of domesticating animals?

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Chapter Five:

Define:
• Irrigation
• Indigenous
• Neolithic

Indentify:
• Fertile Crescent

Add the following to your map: Argentina, Fertile Crescent, China, Indus River
Valley

Questions:
1. Are the plants and animals with which we are familiar the same as those seen by
our ancestors?
2. Why doesn’t Diamond trust radio carbon dating?
3. Using the chart on page 100, what assumptions can you make about the
lifestyles and diets of early humans?
4. Did food production begin spontaneously through out the world or were there
other factors?

Chapter Six:

Define:
• Herding
• Forage
• Gazelle
• Archeologist

Add to your map: New Guinea, Sweden

List:
Create a chart comparing and contrasting hunter-gathers and farmers using at least six
subjects from the text.

Chapter Seven:

Define:
• Barley
• Sorghum
• Pulses

Add to your map: India, Ethiopia

Questions:
1. What role do humans play in crop selection?
2. How have the plants themselves changed since domestication?
3. Why did some plants domesticate more quickly than others?

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 4. Why do you find almonds and not acorns in your morning cereal?
5. What did Darwin have to say about crop selection?

Chapter Nine:

Define:
• Herbivore
• Carnivore
• Omnivore

Add to your map Mongolia, Tibet, Brazil, Egypt

Questions:
1. What are the fourteen domesticated large mammals?
2. Why does this put some places like Africa, with a large number of animals that
cannot be domesticated, at a disadvantage?
3. What happens when domesticated animals reach new lands?
4. What was the first domesticated animal?
5. Why do 134 species of large mammals fail to be domesticated? Give examples
and explanations.

Chapter Eleven:

Define:
• Epidemic
• Influenza
• Smallpox
• Bubonic Plague

Questions:
1. What diseases have animals given humans?
2. Why are there more diseases in groups with more people?
3. What are some of the major diseases in history and what impact did they have
on human history?
4. What impact did European diseases have on the Americas? Be sure to use
numbers to support your answer.

Chapter Twelve:

Define:
• Barbarian
• Linguist
• Roman alphabet
• Cyrillic alphabet

Questions:
1. Why is writing so valuable? Who had it? List and put on the map.
2. Why was Sumerian cuneiform so valuable?
3. How did Mayan writing look?
4. What did Sequoyah do that was so ingenious?

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 5. What is Han’gul?

Chapter Fifteen:

Add to your map: Australia

List:
Create a chart comparing New Guineans and Aborigines using at least five comparison
points.

Questions:
1. Why did the Aborigines not develop complex metal tools, writing or politically
complex societies?
2. Why did Europeans not want to settle on New Guinea?

Chapter Sixteen:

Define:
• Mandarin
• Austro-Asiatic
• Tai-Kadai
• Miao-Yao

Add to your map: Japan and Korea

Questions:
1. What does modern China look like?
2. What do the languages of China tell us about the people and settling of China?
3. What can we learn from Chinese dig sites about these Chinese hunter-gatherers
societies and plant domestication?

Chapter Nineteen:

Questions:
1. What are the five African language families
2. What impact have African languages had on other languages around the world?
3. Who lacks a distinct language?
4. What does the “click” represent about the movements of people over Africa?
5. What crops were growing in Africa and in which regions?
6. What may have led to the Austronslans settling on Madagascar?
7. What happens to most of the Khoisans?
8. In 1400, what groups were living in Africa and what were their characteristics?
9. What advantages did Europeans have over Africans?

Be sure to email me if you run into any problems or potential

problems! I can’t wait to see you at the start of the school year!
--Ms. Gutierrez

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