AP World History: Modern
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AP World History explores significant events, individuals, developments, and processes from 1200 to the present. It employs historical thinking skills and methodologies, including primary and secondary source analysis, argument development, and understanding patterns of change and continuity over time.
The curriculum is structured around six themes: humans and the environment, cultural developments and interactions, governance, economic systems, social interactions and organization, and technology and innovation, providing a framework for connecting historical developments in different times and places.
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7 Topics, Over 700 Questions
1.1 Developments in East Asia from c. 1200 to c. 1450
1.2 Developments in Dar al-Islam from c. 1200 to c. 1450
1.3 Developments in South & Southeast Asia from c. 1200 to c. 1450
1.4 State Building in the Americas
1.5 State Building in Africa
1.6 Developments in Europe from c. 1200 to c. 1450
1.7 Comparison in the Period from c. 1200 to c. 1450
7 Topics, Over 700 questions
2.1 The Silk Roads
2.2 The Mongol Empire & the Making of the Modern World
2.3 Exchange in the Indian Ocean
2.4 Trans-Saharan Trade Routes
2.5 Cultural Consequences of Connectivity
2.6 Environmental Consequences of Connectivity
2.7 Comparison of Economic Exchange
4 Topics, Over 400 Questions
3.1 Empires Expand
3.2 Empires: Administration
3.3 Empires: Belief Systems
3.4 Comparison in Land-based Empires
8 Topics, 800 Questions
4.1 Technological Innovations from 1450 to 1750
4.2 Exploration: Causes & Events from 1450 to 1750
4.3 Columbian Exchange
4.4 Maritime Empires Established
4.5 Maritime Empires Maintained & Developed
4.6 Internal & External Challenges to State Power from 1450 to 1750
4.7 Changing Social Hierarchies from 1450 to 1750
4.8 Continuity & Change from 1450 to 1750
10 Topics, Over 1,000 Questions
5.1 The Enlightenment
5.2 Nationalism & Revolutions in the Period from 1750 to 1900
5.3 Industrial Revolution Begins
5.4 Industrialization Spreads in the Period from 1750 to 1900
5.5 Technology of the Industrial Age
5.6 Industrialization: Government’s Role from 1750 to 1900
5.7 Economic Developments & Innovations in the Industrial Age
5.8 Reactions to the Industrial Economy from 1750 to 1900
5.9 Society & the Industrial Age
5.10 Continuity & Change in the Industrial Age
8 Topics, Over 800 Questions
6.1 Rationales for Imperialism from 1750 to 1900
6.2 State Expansion from 1750 to 1900
6.3 Indigenous Responses to State Expansion from 1750 to 1900
6.4 Global Economic Development from 1750 to 1900
6.5 Economic Imperialism from 1750 to 1900
6.6 Causes of Migration in an Interconnected World
6.7 Effects of Migration
6.8 Causation in the Imperial Age
6 Topics, 600 Questions
7.1 Shifting Power After 1900
7.2 Causes of World War I
7.3 Conducting World War I
7.4 The Economy in the Interwar Period
7.5 Unresolved Tensions After World War I
7.6 Causes of World War II
7.7 Conducting World War II
7.8 Mass Atrocities After
7.9 Causation in Global Conflict
10 Topics, 1,000 Questions
8.1 Setting the Stage for the Cold War & Decolonization
8.2 The Cold War
8.3 Effects of the Cold War
8.4 Spread of Communism After 1900
8.5 Decolonization After 1900
8.6 Newly Independent States
8.7 Global Resistance to Established Order After 1900
8.8 End of the Cold War
8.9 Causation in the Age of the Cold War and Decolonization
6 Topics, Over 600 Questions
9.1 Advances in Technology & Exchange After 1900
9.2 Technological Advances & Limitations After 1900: Disease
9.3 Technological Advances: Debates About the Environment After 1900
9.4 Economics in the Global Age
9.5 Calls for Reform & Responses After 1900
9.6 Globalized Culture After 1900
9.7 Resistance to Globalization After 1900
9.8 Institutions Developing in a Globalized World
9.9 Continuity & Change in a Globalized World
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