SAT2历史大纲下载.

SAT2历史大纲下载

　　SAT2考试有20门科目可以选择，但是对于文科生，选择的余地并不是很大，历史就是这些不多的选择之一。SAT2历史分成了世界历史和美国历史，都需要大家在备考的时候有良好的基础。下面就是SAT2历史大纲的下载预览，供大家参考。

　　World History Outline

　　Foundations: c. 8000 B.C.E.–600 C.E.

　　Major Developments

　　1. Locating world history in the environment and time

　　1). Environment

　　1)). Geography and climate: Interaction of geography and climate with the development of human society

　　2)). Demography: Major population changes resulting from human and environmental factors

　　2). Time

　　1)). Periodization in early human history

　　2)). Nature and causes of changes associated with the time span

　　3)). Continuities and breaks within the time span

　　3). Diverse Interpretations

　　1)). What are the issues involved in using "civilization" as an organizing principle in world history?

　　2)). What is the most common source of change: connection or diffusion versus independent invention?

　　2. Developing agriculture and technology

　　1). Agricultural, pastoral, and foraging societies, and their demographic characteristics (Include Africa, the Americas, and Southeast Asia.)

　　2). Emergence of agriculture and technological change

　　3). Nature of village settlements

　　4). Impact of agriculture on the environment

　　5). Introduction of key stages of metal use

　　3. Basic features of early civilizations in different environments: culture, state, and social structure

　　1). Mesopotamia

　　2). Egypt

　　3). Indus

　　4). Shang

　　5). Mesoamerica and Andean South America

　　(Students should be able to compare two of the early civilizations above.)

　　U.S History Outline

　　1. Pre-Columbian Societies

　　1). Early inhabitants of the Americas

　　2). American Indian empires in Mesoamerica, the Southwest, and the Mississippi Valley

　　3). American Indian cultures of North America at the time of European contact

　　2. Transatlantic Encounters and Colonial Beginnings, 1492-1690

　　1). First European contacts with Native Americans

　　2). Spain&aposs empire in North America

　　3). French colonization of Canada

　　4). English settlement of New England, the Mid-Atlantic region, and the South

　　5). From servitude to slavery in the Chesapeake region

　　6). Religious diversity in the American colonies

　　7). Resistance to colonial authority: Bacon&aposs Rebellion, the Glorious Revolution, and the Pueblo Revolt

　　3. Colonial North America, 1690-1754

　　1). Population growth and immigration

　　2). Transatlantic trade and the growth of seaports

　　3). The eighteenth-century back country

　　4). Growth of plantation economies and slave societies

　　5). The Enlightenment and the Great Awakening

　　6). Colonial governments and imperial policy in British North America

　　4. The American Revolutionary Era, 1754-1789

　　1). The French and Indian War

　　2). The Imperial Crisis and resistance to Britain

　　3). The War for Independence

　　4). State constitutions and the Articles of Confederation

　　5). The federal Constitution