AP World History 2012-2013
  • Unit 1
    • 1.1.3: Tools and Adaptation>
      • Case Study
      • AGMSPRITE Analysis
    • 1.3.9 & 1.3.2: New Religions & Geographies of Early Civs.>
      • Early Religions>
        • AGMSPRITE Analysis
        • Works Cited
      • The Early Civilizations>
        • Case Study
        • AGMSPRITE Analysis
        • Works Cited
    • 1.1.2: Humans and Fire>
      • 1.1.4: Economic Structures>
        • Case Study
        • AGMSPRITE Analysis
      • Case Study
      • AGMSPRITE Analysis
    • 1.3.6: Arts & Record Keeping>
      • Arts and Artisanship
      • Systems of Recordkeeping
      • Case Study: The Phoenician Alphabet
      • AGMSPRITE Analysis
    • 1.3.1-1.3.3: Early Culture & Systems of Rule>
      • Culture's Effects
      • Systems of Rule
      • Case Study: Hammurabi's Code
      • AGMSPRITE Analysis
    • 1.1-1.4 Early Human Innovation>
      • 1.1.1: Human Patterns of Migration>
        • Case Study
        • AGMSPRITE Analysis
    • 1.2.1-1.2.3: The Climate & The Neolithic Era>
      • Case Study
      • AGMSPRITE Analysis
    • 1.2.5-1.2.6: Reliable Food Sources & Innovation>
      • Case Study - The Plow
      • Works Cited
    • 1.3.1-1.3.2: Pastoralists & Early Architecture>
      • Introduction
      • Monumental Architecture And Urban Planning
      • Pastoralist Weapon Dissemination And Transportation
      • Pastoralist Tools
      • Basic
      • AGMSPRITE Analysis
      • Works Cited
  • Unit 2
    • 2.2.5-2.2.7 Social Hierarchy and Gender Roles>
      • Gender Roles>
        • Case Study
        • AGMSPRITE Analysis
      • Social Hierarchies >
        • AGMSPRITE
    • 2.2.4 Cities>
      • Trade>
        • Trade AGMSPRITE
        • Trade Case Study
      • Religious Rituals>
        • Religious Rituals AGMSPRITE
        • Religious Rituals Case Study
      • Public Administration>
        • Public Administration AGMSPRITE
        • Public Administration Case Study
    • 2.2.2 Orchestration of the Persian and S. Asian Empires>
      • Persia>
        • Imperial Administration and Legal Systems
        • Military Power
        • Trade and Economic Integration and Regulation
        • AGMSPRITE Analysis
      • South Asia>
        • Imperial Administration and Legal Systems
        • Military Power
        • Trade and Economic Integration and Regulation
        • AGMSPRITE Analysis
    • 2.2.2 Orchestration of Rome and China>
      • China>
        • Imperial Administration
        • Military Power
        • Trade and Economics
        • AGMSPRITE Analysis
      • Rome>
        • Imperial Administration
        • Military Power
        • Trade and Economics
        • AGMSPRITE Analysis
    • 2.2.1: Growth of Empires & States>
      • Case Study
      • AGMSPRITE
    • 2.1.6 Cultures Of Second Wave Civilizations>
      • Sculptures
      • Architecture
      • Literature
      • A.G.M.S.P.R.I.T.E
      • Sources
    • 2.1.1: Religions as a Bonding Force>
      • The Basic Gist
      • AGMSPRITE Analysis
      • Case Study
    • 2.1.4 Buddhism and Hinduism Impact on Gender Roles>
      • Buddhism
    • 2.1.2 The Emergence of Religions>
      • Christianity
      • Confucianism
      • Greco-Roman Philosophy
      • Daoism
      • AGMSPRITE
  • Unit 3
    • 3.1.1 Third Wave Global Trade Routes>
      • Basic Gist
      • Case Study
      • AGMSPRITE Analysis
    • 3.1.2 The Impact of trade on emerging trading cities>
      • Basic Gist
      • Case Study
      • AGMSPRITE Analysis
    • 3.1.3. Spread of Islam Through Afro-Eurasia>
      • Basic Gist
      • Case Study
      • AGMSPRITE
    • 3.1.4 Inter-Regional Travelers >
      • The Basic Gist
      • Compare and Contrast
      • AGMSPRITE Analysis
    • 3.1.5. Cultural Interactions and Art>
      • The Basic Gist
      • Cultural Traditions AGMSPRITE
      • Art AGMSPRITE
      • Literature AGMSPRITE
      • Case Study
    • 3.1.6: The Impact of Newly Spread Technologies and Scientific Knowledge>
      • Basic Gist
      • Movement of Gunpowder from East to West
      • Movement of Printing from East to West
      • AGMSPRITE Analysis
    • 3.1.7 Inter-Regional Conflicts>
      • Case Study
      • AGMSPRITE Analysis
  • Unit 4
    • 4.1.1. - Influence of Tools Upon Transoceanic Trade>
      • Basic Gist
      • Case Study
      • AGMSPRITE
    • 4.1.2: Maritime Reconnaissance>
      • Basic Gist
      • AGMSPRITE Analysis
    • 4.1.3 World Economies>
      • Basic Gist
      • AGMSPRITE analysis
      • Case Study
    • 4.1.4 The Colossal Impact of the Colombian Exchange>
      • Basic Gist
      • Case Study on Sugar
      • AGMSPRITE Analysis of the East
      • AGMSPRITE Analysis of the West
    • 4.1.5 Government and the Arts>
      • Case Study
      • AGMSPRITE
    • 4.2.3 Forced Migration of Africans Cause and Effect>
      • Basic Gist
      • Causes of the forced migration of Africans
      • Effects/Developments of the forced migration of Africans
      • AGMSPRITE Analysis
    • 4.3.2 Impact of Technology on state consolidation and imperial expansion>
      • Basic Gist
      • Case Study
      • AGMSPRITE
  • Unit 5
    • 5.3.1 US and Latin American Revolutions >
      • Basic Gist
      • Case Study
      • AGMSPRITE
    • 5.3.2b Hatian Revolution>
      • Basic Gist
      • AGMSPRITE
    • 5.3.2a: Causes and Effects of French Revolution>
      • Causes of the French Revolution
      • Effects of the French Revolution
      • AGMSPRITE
    • 5.3.2c Causes and Effects of the Mexican Revolution>
      • Basic Gist
      • Causes of the Mexican Revolution
      • Effects of the Mexican Revolution
      • AGMSPRITE Analysis
    • 5.3.3: The Winds of Change>
      • Case Study
      • The Conception of Nation-States
      • Nationalism on the Rise
      • AGMSPRITE Analysis
    • 5.3.4 Nationalism and Democracy >
      • Case Study
      • AGMSPRITE
      • 5.3.5 Enlightenment and European Despots>
        • Basic Gist
  • Unit 6
    • War and Peace in a Global Context>
      • Big Gist>
        • WWI vs WWII
      • Case Study
      • AGMSPRITE
    • Changing Economics>
      • Basic Gist
      • AGMSPRITE
      • Case Study
      • Case Study
      • AGMSPRITE
    • Demographic and Environmental Changes>
      • Basic Gist
      • Case Study
      • AGMSPRITE Analysis
    • 20th Century Globalization>
      • Basic Gist
      • Case Study
      • AGMSPRITE
    • Effects of Revolutions on Women>
      • Basic Gist
      • Case Study
      • AGMSPRITE
    • New Patterns of Nationalism >
      • Basic Gist
      • Independence of Vietnam Case Study
      • Effects of Communism Case Study
      • Chinese and Russian Revolutions
      • AGMSPRITE
    • Globalization of Science, technology and culture. >
      • Basic Gist
      • Case Study
      • AGMSPRITE

Arts and Artisanship

Paintings
By Elodie Chidiac

Paleolithic Era:
  • Even though the Paleolithic era was made up of hunters and gatherers, art did evolve around that time period. Humans did use rocks for hunting, but creativity evolved when they chipped away the rocks to make them function better; and thus creating new tools used for art. The people of that time period were the first to visually represent the things they found in their natural environment. Scholars are still trying to answer the question of why these paintings were created? Were they a form of hunting magic, some religious ritual, or a totemic thinking,belief that some people descended from animals? The answer is still unknown. 
Neolithic Era:
  •  During the Neolithic era, people started to settle down in communities and thus were able to focus on other things than striving to survive. Neolithic is most known for craft and architecture as well as tombs carvings and religious objects. Neolithic societies were the first to apply pigment to a man-made surface. It was proven that the paintings,created by man during that time period, were part of a ritual to honor a deity.


Sculptures
By Elodie Chidiac

Paleolithic Era
  • Even though humans were nomads and were striving to survive, they still expressed themselves through art using whatever technologies available to them. Such materials included stone, mammoth ivory and reindeer horn. Venus figurines are the most common sculptures found in this era. These figurines appeared to be images of females with exaggerated specific body parts.They were found to be emblems of security and success as well as fertility icons.  
Neolithic Era:
  • The first millennium of the Neolithic era flourished the outstanding apparition of an impressive tool. Earlier Neolithic people learned how to make and use iron. With the introduction of iron, the sculptures became more complex and thus the people started to think about expanding their idea to more than just stick figures.Neolithic Venus were later discovered in may temples. These female statues, interpreted the women's primacy in religion and implies women's equality. Since non male statues were discovered, it implies that there was a slight superiority of women in social classes.

Weaving

Paleolithic Era:
  • During the the age of agriculture, it has been proven that there was also an explosion of technological innovations. Weaving of textiles, made it possible for the stable societies to trade with others, by just collecting the fibers of domesticated plants such as cotton. It is clear, that weaving was found to be a technology in which women are the innovators.
Neolithic Era:
  • Clothes, textiles and straw mats hold a prominent place in the daily life of Neolithic farmers.The main weaving fibers were flax and wool. The use of flax came earlier than that of wool and predominated during the Neolithic Period. It was assumed that there were two ways of weaving during the Neolithic, simple and diagonal weave.





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Animal paintings in Lascaux caves created around 15,000 B.C.E. Show lively animals painted realistically.
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The city of Catal Huyuk
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The Turkish site at Catal Huyuk (6000 B.C.E) was one a large plaster of mud but paintings still adorn the remains of the walls today.
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Venus of Willendorf was made between 24,000 and 22,000 B.C.E. and was discovered to be a fertility symbol.
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During the Paleolithic Era, the weaving of cloth was widely regarded as a women's specialization.
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Qashqai women weaving carpet using different patterns.
Citations
Strayer, Robert W. Ways of the World: A Brief Global History with Sources. Boston, MA: Bedford/St. Martins, 2011. Print. pg 16-17"Venus Figurines." 
Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, 10 Apr. 2012. Web. 05 Oct. 2012. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus_figurines>."Nude Woman (Venus of Willendorf)." 
- Smarthistory. N.p., n.d. Web. 05 Oct. 2012. <http://smarthistory.khanacademy.org/nude-woman-venus-of-willendorf.html>.
"The Oldest Art: Cave Wall Paintings." - Softpedia. N.p., n.d. Web. 05 Oct. 2012. <http://news.softpedia.com/news/The-Oldest-Art-Cave-Wall-Paintings-78754.shtml>."PaleolithicAge." Neolithic Venuses. N.p., n.d. Web. 05 Oct. 2012. <http://barclay1720.tripod.com/hist/paleo/neovenus.htm>."Neolithic Culture." Neolithic Culture. N.p., n.d. Web. 05 Oct. 2012. http://www.fhw.gr/chronos/01/en/nl/culture/weavfr.html.
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