AP WORLD HISTORY SUMMER ASSIGNMENT 2019 About the APWH course: You have chosen to join the fastest growing AP course in America. AP World History is a rigorous yet enriching course of study. This college-level class entails the study of 10,000 years of history in 35 weeks. It will demand more attention and time than any other class you have ever previously encountered because you have the opportunity to earn college credit by passing the College Board s APWH exam with a score of 3, 4, or 5. 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. Throughout the school year, we will discuss specifically what to expect from the class and from the AP exam. You should expect to spend approximately thirty minutes to one hour each night of the week in preparation for class. Summer Assignment: The purpose of the summer assignment is to provide you with a foundation for the study of world history and current global issues. It is imperative that you complete this assignment in a thoughtful and analytical fashion. DO NOT WAIT UNTIL THE LAST MINUTE. We have provided the College Board AP World History Themes and the Habits of Mind to help guide you when completing your assignments. These themes are essential to our course and we refer to these throughout the year. They are also the basis for the three essays on the AP exam. Habits of Mind: 1. Construct and evaluate arguments: use evidence to make plausible arguments; 2. Use primary sources: develop the skills necessary to analyze point of view, context and bias, and to understand and interpret information; 3. Develop the ability to assess issues of change and continuity over time; and 4. Enhance the capacity to handle diversity of interpretation through analysis of context, bias, and frame of reference. AP Themes: AP World History highlights six over arching themes that should receive equal attention throughout the course: 1. Patterns and impacts of interaction among major societies: (trade, war, diplomacy, and international organizations). 2. The relationship of change and continuity across the world history periods covered in this course. 3. Impact of technology and demography on people and the environment (population growth and decline, manufacturing, migrations, agriculture). 4. Systems of social structure and gender structure (comparing major features within and among societies and assessing change). 5. Cultural and intellectual developments and interactions among and within societies. 6. Change in functions and structures of states and in attitudes toward political identities, including the emergence of the nation-state. The Summer Reading Book: This year s summer reading assignment is A History of the World in 6 Glasses by Tom Standage. In this book, Standage tells a popular history of the world and some of the most significant civilizations in history by following the development of 6 influential beverages. The 6 beverages are: beer, wine, spirits, coffee, tea, & Coca Cola. These beverages have played a significant role in driving trade and interaction between some of the most significant regions and empires in world history. Our purpose in reading the book is to gain a sense of how civilizations and cultures develop and how they are affected by various forces (social, political, economic, and cultural). You will need to read the book A History of the World in Six Glasses. Read the instructions carefully. Publisher: Walker Publishing Company/ISBN-0802715524/Approximately $6-$12 *(DISCLAIMER: The use of this book as a summer reading assignment in NO way represents any endorsement by the teacher of the consumption of these beverages! The book is simply meant to provide an interesting view of civilizations and trade, from which we can initiate our year-long discussion of world history.) You will turn your study questions in on the first day of school. The work you turn is must be your work alone. Plagiarism will be punished by receiving a final grade of 0.. Be prepared to also discuss the book, Quiz and/or write an essay within the first few days of school. I advise you to pace your reading over a few weeks during the summer. DON T wait until the last few days before school to begin this assignment.
Study Questions The questions provided for this book are meant to get you thinking about history. DO NOT RETYPE THE QUESTIONS. Answers must be in complete sentences and typed. Each section should be on a separate piece of paper. Introduction Vital Fluids 1. What is the author s main thesis (argument) in setting up his book? 2. Why/how are these fluids vital? Beer in Mesopotamia and Egypt (Chapters 1 and 2): 1. How is the discovery of beer linked to the growth of the first civilizations? 2. What does this history of beer in the ancient world tell us about early civilizations? 3. What sources does the author use to gather information on the use of beer? 4. What were some of the uses of beer by ancient cultures? Nourishment? Ritual? Religious? 5. How did beer civilize man, according to Standage? Wine in Greece and Rome (Chapters 3 and 4): 1. How did the use of wine differ from that of beer in ancient Greece and Rome? 2. How was wine used by the Greeks? 3. How and why did wine develop into a form of a status symbol in Greece? 4. How was wine consumed? What does this tell us about ancient Greek culture? 5. How did the use of wine in Roman culture differ from that of ancient Greece? 6. What is the relationship between wine and empire, medicine, and religion? Spirits in the Colonial Period (Chapters 5 and 6): 1. What is the origin of distilled spirits? 2. What is the connection between spirits and colonization? 3. How was the production of spirits connected to slavery? 4. What role did spirits play on the high seas? 5. Why were spirits an important staple in Colonial America? 6. How did Rum play a role in the American Revolution? Coffee in the Age of Reason (Chapters 7 and 8): 1. Where and how did coffee originate? 2. Explain the importance of coffeehouses. 3. How did coffee influence this new age of scientific learning and rational thought in Europe? 4. How was the use of coffee in society different from previous beverages? 5. How was the Scientific Revolution and Enlightenment a sharp break from the past? Tea and the British Empire (Chapters 9 and 10): 1. When did tea first become a mainstream drink in Asia? In Europe? 2. How did the consumption of tea in Europe differ from how it was consumed in China and Japan? 3. If tea arrived in Europe around the same time as coffee, why did it not find the immediate success that coffee had? 4. How did tea transform English society? Who were its main consumers and what were some of the new rituals that surrounded tea? 5. How was tea an integral part of the Industrial Revolution? 6. What was the connection between tea and politics? 7. How was tea connected to the opium trade and the Opium War of 1839-1842? 8. What role did the tea trade and production play in the British rule over India? Coca-Cola and the Rise of America (Chapters 11 and 12): 1. What was the origin of Coca-Cola? 2. How was the beverage used medically? What were the additives? 3. What was the relationship between Coca-Cola and World War II? 4. How was Coca-Cola thought of by the communists during the Cold War? 5. What is meant by globalization in a bottle? Epilogue Back to the Source 1. Do you agree or disagree with Standage s argument in the epilogue? 2. Will water be the most influential beverage in shaping the global situation of the next 100+ years? Why or why not?
A History of the World in 6 Glasses Chapter Reading Notes Chapter 1: A Stone Age Brew 1. The Agricultural Revolution led to what changes? 2. What are cereal grains and what food and drink was produced from them? 3. What archeological evidence is there to support the harvesting, transporting, storing, and processing of cereal grains? 4. Explain 2 discoveries early farmers made about cereal grains? 5. Bread was solid, and beer was liquid. 6. Ancient civilizations believed that beer was a gift from who? Therefore how should one be thankful? 7. Food surpluses created by better farming, allowed what to emerge? 8. What 3 reasons are given for the switch to farming? 9. Why would beer be safer to drink than water? 10. Explain how storehouses and temples became intertwined. Chapter 2: Civilized Beer 1. The Land between 2 rivers is what? What are the rivers? 2. Surplus grain allowed the possibility of what things? 3. What was the basis of the local diet of Egypt & Mesopotamia? 4. Why is Sumer important to the history of mankind? 5. How did food & drink play a part in Ancient religions? 6. How did writing help the Sumerian society? 7. Our modern Latin alphabet can be traced back to what 2 ancient civilizations? 8. Why was wheat in its 2 forms important to Mesopotamia and Egypt? 9. What are some ways beer was used as a medicine? 10. How was beer used in Egyptian burials?
Chapter 3: The Delight of Wine 1. What factors made wine production possible? 2. Where did wine become an important drink? 3. How was Western civilization influenced by the Greeks? 4. How did the Greeks judge how cultured a person was? 5. Explain the ritual of symposion. 6. Why were wine and water important to each other? 7. How did symposion reflect Greek culture? 8. How did Plato view democracy? 9. How did Plato s symposion differ from a normal Greek symposion? 10. How do archeologists know about the far reaching influence of Greek customs & values? Chapter 4: The Imperial Wine 1. How did the Romans assimilate to Greek culture? 2. Wine production expanded at the expense of what other crop? 3. How did Rome try to control the luxurious tastes of its richest citizens? 4. How did a Roman convivium compare to a Greek symposium? 5. How did Christianity and Islam view wine? 6. How was Europe divided over wine & beer drinking? 7. How do the Greek symposium & the Roman convivium influence modern western culture? Chapter 5: High Spirits, High Seas 1. How do ancient Arab achievements still affects us today? 2. How did Prince Henry the Navigator become the mastermind of the exploration age? 3. Explain the early production of sugar. 4. Explain how Africans became slaves of Europeans. 5. What did African slave traders receive in exchange for slaves? 6. Explain the connection between spirits, slaves and sugar. 7. How did rum play a part in making Great Britain the supreme naval power of Europe? 8. How did rum influence slavery?
Chapter 6: The Drinks that built America 1. How did rum play a role in the American Revolution? 2. Why did England want land in North America? 3. How did this work out? 4. Why did sugar and rum become an important import? 5. Why did whiskey replace rum as the American drink? 6. Explain the cause and effect of the Whiskey Rebellion. 7. How did alcohol affect the treatment of Native Americans? Chapter 7: The Great Soberer 1. Why did coffee become a preferred drink over alcohol? 2. How was coffee discovered? 3. Explain the difference in public opinion of a tavern and a coffee house. 4. Explain how coffee was introduced to the Americas? Chapter 8: Coffeehouse and the Internet 1. Why was the coffee house an important part of life in London, England? 2. How did the London Stock Exchange develop? 3. How did the London coffee houses shape science and finances? 4. How were Voltaire s views received? 5. How were French and English coffee houses similar? Different? 6. How did the French Revolution begin? 7. What do today s coffee shops have in common the early coffee shops of Europe and the Americas?
Chapter 9: Empires of Tea 1. How was tea used before it became a drink? 2. Which empire is responsible for making tea the national drink? 3. During the Tang Empire China exported what major products? 4. Why did tea not have an immediate impact on Europe? 5. What 2 factors made tea popular in England? 6. Why would the rich despise the fact that the poor would be drinking tea? 7. Why did tea become synonymous with England and not France? Chapter 10: Tea Power 1. What is the basic definition of the Industrial Revolution? 2. Why would a factory owner offer to give employees tea breaks? 3. What was another affect of tea besides caffeine? 4. How was consumerism impacted by tea? 5. What were the events surrounding the Opium War? 6. What caused the Chinese civilization to crumble? 7. Why did Great Britain want to grow tea in India? 8. How did the British Empire influence the production and consumption of tea? Chapter 11: From Soda to Cola 1. Describe the American system of the Industrial Age? 2. By the 1900 which country had the largest economy? 3. How was soda water discovered? 4. How did a soda fountain change the way soda was served? 5. Pemberton added what new ingredients to soda water? 6. Why did Pemberton give up making French Wine Coca? 7. What was Coca-Cola said to cure?
Chapter 12: Globalization in a Bottle 1. Explain how Coca-Cola and WW2 went together? 2. How did communists respond to Coca-Cola s global influence? 3. How did Pepsi take advantage of anti-coca-cola sentiment? 4. How was Coca-Cola affected by the fall of the Iron Curtain? 5. How conflicts in the Middle East affect both Coca-Cola and Pepsi? 6. How does globalization and Coca-Cola go together. Epilogue: 1. What is today s most important drink? 2. Compare how developed and undeveloped countries view water? 3. How could water be both the catalyst of conflict and the path to peace? How did this book change your perspective of World History?