Winter Break Assignment

AP World History Spring Break Assignment

Human Web Questions

Read pgs. 1 to 213.

  1. How does the author define “webs” (pg. 1? How does the author elaborate that concept throughout the book? (1 paragraph response)
  2. According to the author, “What drives history is the human ambition to alter one’s condition to match one’s hopes…how they pursued their hopes depended on the information, ideas and examples available to them.” Asses how this assertion is proven in (each of one the following is a one paragraph response):
    1. Chapter 2 (Food Production)
    2. Chapter 3—Rise of Bureaucratic Empires
    3. Chapter 4—New Roles for Religion
    4. Chapter 5—How China became the First Market Society
    5. Chapter 6—Fusing and Extending the World’s Web
  3. Explain an example as to how a web was built on competition? (1 paragraph)
  4. Explain an example as to how a web was built on cooperation? (1 paragraph)
  5. Define the the word ecology. Choose one region of the world and explain how communication, cooperation and competition impacted its ecology over time? (1 paragraph)
  6. Define the the word ecology. Choose two regions of the world (divided by a mass of water) and explain how communication, cooperation and competition impacted their ecology during the same period of time? (1 paragraph).