AP WORLD HISTORY Introduction: This assignment will practice skills used in Document Based Questions which are an important part of the AP World History course. Read/analyze each document below. Answer the questions in the space provided. After doing this‚ use this information to write a DBQ essay based on the rubric provided below. You will be grade on perceived effort more than expertise. Do not copy or plagiarize someone else’s work. If you have specific questions about the assignment
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the responsibility of writing a book on the history of civilization‚ when would you claim civilization began? In answering the question‚ compare and contrast how these different social structures and constructs arose in different ways in the Middle East and Europe. What is implied when we call some civilizations civilized and others uncivilized? The whole concept of a civilization is a continuous and debatable topic which relies on how we define a civilization. Many different elements must come
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History Textbook Notes Chapter 1.1: The Beginnings of Civilization (10‚000-1150 B.C.) Spring 2014 Objective: What is the link between food-producing revolution of the Neolithic era and the emergence of civilization? (The shift from hunting and gathering to farming and herding because it changed the way humans organized society.) Neolithic Age: The New Stone Age (10‚000-3‚000 B.C.)‚ characterized by the development of agriculture and the use of stone tools. How do shifts in food production
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REPRESENTS THE WORLD IN BLITAR‚ EAST JAVA In the SFL account the ideational strand of meaning in fact involves two components: that of experiential meaning in the clause (Halliday and Matthiessen 2004) and that of the logical meaning between clauses in clause complexes. Experiential meaning is expressed through the system of Transitivity or process type‚ with the choice of process implicating associated participant roles and configurations. Blitar is a city in East Java‚ lies between Malang of
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in Mesopotamia by 7000 B.C. and the First Dynasty of Egyptian rulers was founded before 3000 B.C.‚ implying a much earlier period of occupation in the Nile River valley and delta. To protect themselves and channel the forces of nature‚ people living near the rivers created new technologies and forms of political and social organization. The geographical similarities were that both civilizations resided on banks of major rivers‚ Tigris & Euphrates‚ and Nile. Another similarity is that both civilizations
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adventures aboard the whale ship‚ Pequoud‚ which mainly include chasing a whale called Moby Dick. In Sophie’s World by Jostein Gaarder‚ Alberto Knox encourages Sophie to think about her life philosophically through various examples from history. In East of Eden‚ John Steinbeck follows the life of the Trusk and Hamilton families‚ a basic portrayal of good vs evil‚ and how you can choose which one to be. Throughout Moby Dick‚ the theme of an unavoidable destiny is clear as demonstrated by Captain
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Today we take many things for granted. We use telecommunications to speak to others around the globe‚ we use technology to instantly access the knowledge of the entire planet‚ and we can travel great distances in short time spans‚ all of which creates a true global community. And‚ of course‚ this is just in the area of technological improvement. Think of all the other genres in which advanced things are happening all the time. It is indeed amazing to think that‚ as I have said before‚ all of
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HISTORY OF EAST SAINT LOUIS‚ IL East Saint Louis‚ Illinois is a very small city it has a total of 89 streets as of today. Around in the 1860’s the city used to be called Illinois town. It was the fourth largest city in the state of Illinois. People knew one place they could get a job was in this city. The name East Saint Louis came about because of the terrible reputation it had when it was known as Illinois town so they decided to rename it hoping to overcome all the challenges they were facing
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Mesopotamia and Egypt are the two of the several remarkable civilizations that have had a vast impact on our present day society. Both were similar socially as they had comparable social class systems‚ agricultural societies‚ and woman’s roles. However‚ both differ in view of after life‚ the status of a king or ruler‚ as well as the process of death. The main reasons to why these two civilizations were so successful were due to the fact of their incredibly similar social characteristics. There
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abilities and creations that changed history forever. In terms of environment‚ these two civilizations were formed in similar surroundings. They were both the earliest river-valleys to be charted by anthropologists. Because they were both formed near rivers‚ it’s no coincidence that the life of both of these places depended mainly on rivers. The Tigris and Euphrates rivers aided in Mesopotamian life‚ while the river Nile supporting the Nile civilization of Egypt. However‚ one difference between
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