AP WH This Week
This page will contain weekly information (reading assignments, important websites, due dates, etc.) for Dr. King's AP World History class.
Most important is the Syllabus: AP World Syllabus 08-09
Here ya go: AP World Mid-term Review '08
Reading and Other Assignments
AP World August
AP World September
AP World October
AP World November
AP World December
AP World History Lecture Notes & Class Documents
PLEASE DISREGARD THE INFOMATION ON THIS PAGE BELOW THIS POINT. I AM MOVING THINGS AROUND ON THE WEBSITE, AND AM IN THE PROCESS OF RELOCATING THE INFORMATION BELOW. AS I DO THIS, THIS PAGE IS A HODGEPODGE OF LINKS AND INFORMATION THAT IS DATED AND IN ITS CURRENT STATE, NONSENSICAL.
Post Classical Review (the maps from Tuesday night, April 15)
Classical Review (links/maps from Tuesday night, April 7)
Summer Reading: You must stop by my office to collect your summer reading. I have prepared a collection of articles for, laid out in order outside my office in College Counseling. Begin with the AP World Summer Reading Guide (#1) and simply go down the list. Almost all of the reading can be found on-line on the web or through JSTOR or Project Muse.
Websites we will/have used or that might be useful:
Conrad-Demarest Model of Empires: http://home.comcast.net/~mruland/WHAP/Assignments/unit1/notes/ModelofEmpires.htm
Chinese Philosophy: One Hundred Schools: http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~dee/ANCCHINA/CHOU.HTM
Greek Philosophy: Socrates, Plato, Aristotle:
http://www.ship.edu/~cgboeree/historyofpsych.html
There are excellent PowerPoint presentations here, prepared by Professor Jane Jones at Manatee Community College, especially the one comparing the Roman Empire and the empire of Han China--
http://faculty.mccfl.edu/jonesj/hum2210/WelcometoHUM2210.html.
Here are two more sites that are worthwhile on these topics, one on Rome: http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/romans/; and one on China: http://www.chinaknowledge.de/. In addition, you can revisit the site we looked at in class: Nova: Roman Bath
Demographics and the Demographic Transition Model: http://www.uwmc.uwc.edu/geography/Demotrans/demtran.htm
Theda Skocpol's Theory of Revolutions: http://www.gotterdammerung.org/books/reviews/s/states-and-social-revolutions.html
Crane Brinton's Theory of Revolutions --There is much to be found on Brinton and his ideas about revolutions on the web, but here are two short and sweet summaries of his ideas about the causes of revoltuions, and the course that revolutions, in his view, seem to follow: http://www.historyteacher.net/EuroProjects/ExamReviewSheets/AnatomyOfARevolution.htm; http://www.geocities.com/bthistory/page3.html
Remember: compare, compare, compare!
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