AP World History Summer Reading: Due Monday August 31, 2015

This Fleeting World by David Christian

Option 1: Buy the book: This Fleeting World by David Christian (available at amazon.com and barnesandnobles.com – Used paperback copy is fine!) OR

Option 2: Download book at h ttp://worldtracker.org/media/library/World%20History/American%20Topics/This%20Fleeting%20World.pdf

Assignment #1: Please read This Fleeting World pp. 1 – 52 and answer the following questions on a separate piece of paper (written or typed):

1.) Explain the lifestyle (eating, communicating, grouping themselves) of the first modern humans (Homo sapiens)? (P. 1)

2.) Explain the “out of Africa” hypothesis. (Pp. 5 – 6)

3.) Humans began to migrate out of Africa around 100,000 years ago. What facilitated this migration? (Pp. 17 – 22)

4.) Explain the origins of agriculture. (P. 24 – 25)

5.) Where did the earliest evidence of agriculture arise? (Pp. 25 – 27)

6.) What major effects did agriculture produce? (Pp. 29 – 31)

7.) List the 6 general characteristics agricultural communities share, and write one sentence explaining each one. (Pp. 32 – 37)

8.) Explain how hierarchies of power emerged in the agrarian era. (Pp. 36 – 41)

9.) What 2 agricultural innovations allowed for increase in population in agrarian communities (pp. 37 – 38)?

10.)Explain the concept of “glass ceiling” (pp. 38, 40).

11.)Explain the difference between cities, villages, and states. (Pp. 41 – 42) 12.) What specific societal traditions began to emerge as agrarian societies became civilizations? (Pp. 41 – 47)

13.) As empires emerge, what new issues began entering into society? (Pp. 47 – 52)

14.)How do hierarchies in early agrarian societies compare to the stratification that exists in our society today?

15.)Is it possible to have a completely egalitarian society? Why or why not?

Day of Empire by Amy Chua

Buy or download the book: Day of Empire by Amy Chua (available at amazon.com and barnesandnobles.com – Used paperback copy is fine!)

Assignment #2: Read introduction

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