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 | ||
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Theme 2: Development and Interaction of Cultures | |||
Belief Systems | Digital Timeline | ||
Cultural Exchanges and Syncretism | Digital Timeline | ||
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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 | ||
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Theme 5: Development and Transformation of Social Structures | |||
Social Structures and Transformations | Digital Timeline | ||
Gender Structures | Digital Timeline |