AP World History Assignments

Chapter 21: Worlds Apart: Americas and Oceania

After reading Chapter 21, you will be able to:

Differentiate the Native American societies in North America (see "Peopling the Americas" pages 5-8 and "The Earliest Americans" pages 8-11; and "The World Known to Europe and Major Trade Routes with Asia" page 12 ) from Native American societies in Latin America (Central, South America, and the Caribbean Sea)

Identify art and trade networks in the northwest; mound-builders in the mid-west; irrigation networks and architecture of the Pueblo Anasazi; matriarchal political confederation among the Iroquois; and the absence of urban-based societies

Identify two heirs of Olmec civilization (1200 C.E.) in Meso-America: Teotihucan (200B.C.E to 750 C.E.); Maya (300 to 1100 C.E.) (re-read pages 137-142; 142-146)

Explain how Inca society differed from post-classical empires, especially in terms of an extensive road system, but an absence of a merchant class and mercantile economy, as well as the absence of trade between the Inca and the Maya.

As you read Chapter 21, take notes on the following terms and concepts: Who, what, where, why, when, how, so what?

Chapter 21: Worlds Apart: Americas and Oceania

On provided maps under Downloads tab, locate the following places:

Maya empire
Chichen Itza
Atzec empire
Pueblo societies
Mound-building land
Cuzco
Mississippi River
Atlantic Ocean
Teotihuacan
Tikal
Tenochtitlan
Iroquois lands
Cahokia
Great Lakes
Gulf of Mexico
Rocky Mountains
Ohio River
Sierra Madre Mountains
Andes Mountains
Caribbean Sea

Pacific Ocean
Philippine Islands
Mariana Islands
Micronesia
Caroline Islands
Melanesia
Solomon Islands
Marshall Islands
Gilbert Islands
Society Islands
Samoa / Fiji / Tonga
New Zealand
Polynesia
Hawaii Islands
Marquesas Islands
Easter Island
Galapagos
Equator

Chapter 21: Worlds Apart: Americas and Oceania

As you read Chapter 12, take notes on the following terms and concepts: Who, what, where, why, when, how, so what?

Teotihuacan (540-542, 546, 548)
Mexica / Aztec (540)
Tenochtitlan (539)
Calendars (546)
Huitzilopochtli (547)
Cahokia (548-549)
confederation
ayllus (554)
mummification (553)
Chichén Itza
Chinampa (541)
calpulli (545)
Quetzalcoatl
Pueblos (548)
The Quipu (see article: Word | Pdf
Matriarchy
Cuzco (551-553)
Quipu (552)

Sources from the Past:
Mexica Expectations of Boys and Girls(545)

Sources from the Past:
The Popol Vuh on the Creation of HumanBeings (143)

Inca Shamanic Glossary – APPENDIX C,
http://www.incaglossary.org/appc.html

Sources from the Past:
Mo`ikeha’s Migration from
Tahiti to Hawai`i (560)