According to the College Board's Course and Exam Description, "A fitting test of overall student understanding could be to ask students to identify the most significant developments within each theme as it applies to each period of the course" (p. 106). With that in mind, the following activity uses digital timelines to review thematic content across the six time periods of the course. It is intended as a review, not as an exhaustive encyclopedia of content. Each theme is broken down into a few salient topics to better focus the review. To get the most out of this, you should download and complete the Graphic Organizer for each timeline and then test your knowledge with the online quiz. Each timeline has links to enrichment materials. 

	Theme 1: Interaction Between Humans and the Environment
Migrations	Graphic Organizer	Digital Timeline	Review Quiz
Tools, Disease, and the Environment	Graphic Organizer	Digital Timeline	Review Quiz
	Theme 2: Development and Interaction of Cultures
Belief Systems	Graphic Organizer	Digital Timeline	Review Quiz
Cultural Exchanges and Syncretism	Graphic Organizer	Digital Timeline	Review Quiz
	Theme 3: State Building, Expansion and Conflict
Political Forms and State-Building	Graphic Organizer	Digital Timeline	Review Quiz
Expansion and Political Legitimization	Graphic Organizer	Digital Timeline	Review Quiz
	Theme 4: Creation, Expansion, and Interaction of Economic Systems
Economic Production and Labor Systems	Graphic Organizer	Digital Timeline	Review Quiz
Networks of Communication and Exchange	Graphic Organizer	Digital Timeline	Review Quiz
	Theme 5: Development and Transformation of Social Structures
Social Structures and Transformations	Graphic Organizer	Digital Timeline	Review Quiz
Gender Structures	Graphic Organizer	Digital Timeline	Review Quiz

According to the College Board's Course and Exam Description, "A fitting test of overall student understanding could be to ask students to identify the most significant developments within each theme as it applies to each period of the course" (p. 106). With that in mind, the following activity uses digital timelines to review thematic content across the six time periods of the course. It is intended as a review, not as an exhaustive compendium of content. Each theme is broken down into a few salient topics to better focus the review. 

	Theme 1: Interaction Between Humans and the Environment
Migrations	Digital Timeline
Tools, Disease, and the Environment	Digital Timeline
	Theme 2: Development and Interaction of Cultures
Belief Systems	Digital Timeline
Cultural Exchanges and Syncretism	Digital Timeline
	Theme 3: State Building, Expansion and Conflict
Political Forms and State-Building	Digital Timeline
Expansion and Political Legitimization	Digital Timeline
	Theme 4: Creation, Expansion, and Interaction of Economic Systems
Economic Production and Labor Systems	Digital Timeline
Networks of Communication and Exchange	Digital Timeline
	Theme 5: Development and Transformation of Social Structures
Social Structures and Transformations	Digital Timeline
Gender Structures	Digital Timeline

These videos are required content and will be assigned in class as we approach the topics. When viewing them, pay attention not only to the questions below but also understand how the content serves to illustrate the Key Concepts given at the top of each video. 

Video 1:The Bolshevik Revolution

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You need to know the following vocabulary before you begin the video:
Provisional Government
Bolsheviks
Nicholas II 
Vladimir Lenin

Video 2: The Crisis of Democracy
Key Concept 6.2.IV.B. Sources of global conflict varied and included the economic crisis engendered by the Great Depression.
Key Concept 6.2.IV.A. Governments used a variety of strategies to mobilize their people and resources. 

1) Why did many lose faith in democracy in the 1930s? What is evidence that they did?

2) What was the relationship between Germany's situation in the 1920s and 1930s and the rise of the Nazi Party?

3) What drove Hitler's popularity? What methods did the Nazi party use to appeal to their population?

Video 3: WWII, From the Rape of Nanjing to Nuremburg
Key Concept 6.2.III.C. The proliferation of conflicts led to the Holocaust during WWII and other forms of genocide or ethnic violence.
Key Concept 6.2.IV. Military conflicts occurred on an unprecedented scale. 

Video 4: Medical Advances

Key Concept 6.1.I.  Researchers made rapid advancements in science that spread throughout the world, assisted by the development of new technology.

1) What highlighted the need for medical research?

2) What did researchers specifically discover?

3) What was a major consequence of this discovery?

Video 4