AP World History Review: Comparative Questions Curtain Call Directions: Use your textbook and or your Princeton Review Book to list as many facts about the following historical comparisons. Use the attached Societal Comparison sheet as a guideline for what to compare and contrast. Remember that you do not have to fill in every topic on the sheet‚ try and get used to looking for these topics when you are comparing societies-in this way you will increase your speed in breaking down the comparative
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Read‚ Watch‚ or Listen (RWL) Project AP US HISTORY Name: Directions: Each RWL project will consist of two sections. First‚ you will choose a source that relates to each of our units in United States history (read a book/portion of a primary source‚ watch a movie‚ or listen to an ITunes University lecture). Second‚ you will either answer five analysis questions or write a reflection paper based upon your source. Unit 1: Formation of Colonies – Colonial Wars (1607-1763) Unit
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into independent and nearly self-sufficient city-states. Although largely economically dependent on one another‚ these city-states were independent political entities and retained very strong isolationist tendencies. This isolationism hindered the unification of the Mesopotamian city-states‚ which eventually grew to twelve in number. By 3000 B.C.‚ Mesopotamian civilization had made contact with other cultures of the Fertile Crescent (a term first coined by James Breasted in 1916)‚ an extensive trade
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(transmission‚ foaf‚ told as true‚ plausible‚ recreated in each retelling‚ feeds of fears prejudices and cultural tensions‚ didactic. 2. Children- quips‚ rhymes e. Subversive potential‚ addresses taboos‚ fantasy escape‚ and maintain order 5. Indo-European- common linguistic background (sanskrit)‚ geographic location a. PIE b. William Jones- multilingual‚ postulated a language predecessor 6. Function of Tales Age of Tales 7. Vielleé a. Old wives tale‚ evening gatherings for gossip b. Order
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The AP U.S. History Exam tests knowledge of U.S. History from the first European explorations of the Americas up through modern times. The bulk of the questions focuses on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Exam topics include political institutions and behavior‚ public policy‚ social and economic change‚ diplomacy and international relations‚ and cultural and intellectual developments. You can find additional free-response questions and scoring guidelines on AP Central‚ along with grade
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Despite having the same settlement’s origin‚ the two areas on the east coast of North America‚ New England and Chesapeake‚ had developed into two distinct societies by 1700‚ whether regarding economy‚ religion‚ government‚ etc. There are various reasons accounting for this difference‚ some most important of which will be clarified in my essay. The strongest agent for the phenomenon is that the two regions were founded for different purposes. Although both were founded by the Englishmen‚ colonies
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4. On the Unique Political‚ Historical and Economic History of China a. Why is unification so integral and important in the development in the earliest dynasty in China? The land of the Chinese was so vast even before that states are far from being friendly with each other due to many differences in many states in language and in culture. China was not unified until the Qin dynasty‚ which was a short period but managed to unify the different states. Unity was so integral in early dynasties because
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Intro: Japs attacked Pearl Harbor‚ dec.7 1941‚ killing thousands of Americans. It was the worst defeat to be ever experienced by the United States Navy. It created the controversy on who to blame‚ whether the local commanders or the officials at fault. People wonder whether or not the local officials may have withheld vital information‚ or the local commanders did not do their part in protecting the naval base. There is enough evidence present to conclude that the local commanders at Pearl
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The Italian Lira is a fairly new currency with roots that lie deep within Italian culture. The word "lira" is actually derived from the Latin word "libra"‚ meaning pound‚ making it a distant cousin to that of the British pound sterling. The lira was a monetary unit long before it existed as a coin or note. The lira made its first appearance in the hands of bankers‚ merchants and consumers in Venice in 1472‚ put in place by Doge Nicolas Tron. The Venice lira set a trend for large silver coins with
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Race Pendleton 4/29/13 Italian Immigration 1880-1920 Many people have emigrated from Italy to America over the past few centuries. During the time period of 1880-1920‚ the largest number of Italians arrived in America as nearly four million Italian immigrants came to the states. Most came from either Sicily or southern Italy and were mostly comprised of lower income people. A majority of the immigrants were known as the "birds of passage". Life was often hard for Italians in America as they were
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