AP World History – UNIT 1
Learning Goal: Students will be able to analyze significant technological and environmental transformations from 8,000 BCE to 600 BCE.
4	Students will be able to analyze and evaluate significant technological and environmental transformations from 8,000 BCE to 600 BCE and make comparisons to other time periods.
3	Students will be able to analyze and evaluate significant technological and environmental transformations from 8,000 BCE to 600 BCE.
2	Students will be able to explain significant technological and environmental transformations from 8,000 BCE to 600 BCE.
1	Student will be able to recognize significant technological and environmental transformations from 8,000 BCE to 600 BCE.
Key Concepts: ·     Peopling of the Earth ·     Neolithic Revolution and early agricultural societies ·     Development and interactions of early agricultural, pastoral, and urban societies

THEMATIC REVIEW QUESTIONS – PERIOD 1

1)   Interaction Between Humans and the Environment

How did the agricultural revolution change the relationship between people and the environment?

2)   Development and Interaction of Cultures

Analyze how the relationships between the cultures of Sumer and Babylonia were similar; or Egypt and Mesopotamia; or between the Indus Valley Civilizations and Mesopotamia; or between China and Mesopotamia.

3)   State-Building, Expansion, and Conflict

How did the agricultural revolution lead to the development of kings and to greater warfare?

4)   State-Building, Expansion, and Conflict

How do the achievements in architecture in Mohenjo-Daro and in ancient Egypt both reflect the process of state-building?

5)   Creation, Expansion, and Interaction of Economic Systems

Analyze how forms of transportation and types of trade goods affected the trade between Mesopotamia and the Indus Valley.

6)   Development and Transformation of Social Structures

Analyze the similarities and differences of the systems of record-keeping that emerged in the Mediterranean and the Shang Dynasty.