AP World History

▶Prologue

▶Part 1: Human Development to c. 600 B.C.E.
▶Part 2: The Classical Era, c. 600 B.C.E. to c. 600 C.E.
▶Part 3: Postclassical Civilizations, c. 600–c. 1200

▶UNIT 1

Overview
▶Developments in East Asia
▶Developments in Dar al-Islam
▶Developments in South and Southeast Asia
▶Developments in the Americas
▶Developments In Africa
▶Developments in Europe
▶Comparison in the Period from c. 1200 to c. 1450
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▶UNIT 2

Overview
▶The Silk Roads
▶The Mongol Empire and the Modern World
▶Exchange in the Indian Ocean
▶Trans-Saharan Trade Routes
▶Cultural Consequences of Connectivity
▶Environmental Consequences of Connectivity
▶Comparison of Economic Exchange
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▶UNIT 3

Overview
▶European, East Asian, and Gunpowder Empires Expand
▶Empires: Administrations
▶Empires: Belief Systems
▶Comparison in Land-Based Empires
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▶UNIT 4

Overview
▶Technological Innovations
▶Exploration: Causes and Events
▶Columbian Exchange
▶Maritime Empires Link Regions
▶Maritime Empires Develop
▶Internal and External Challenges to State Power
▶Changing Social Hierarchies
▶Continuity and Change from c. 1450 to c. 1750
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▶UNIT 5

Overview
▶The Enlightenment
▶Nationalism and Revolutions
▶Industrial Revolution Begins
▶Industrialization Spreads
▶Technology in the Industrial Age
▶Industrialization: Government’s Role
▶Economic Developments and Innovations
▶Reactions to the Industrial Economy
▶Society and the Industrial Age
▶Continuity and Change in the Industrial Age
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▶UNIT 6

Overview
▶Rationales for Imperialism
▶State Expansion
▶Indigenous Responses to State Expansion
▶Global Economic Development
▶Economic Imperialism
▶Causes of Migration in an Interconnected World
▶Effects of Migration
▶Causation in the Imperial Age
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▶UNIT 7

Overview
▶Shifting Power
▶Causes of World War I
▶Conducting World War I
▶Economy in the Interwar Period
▶Unresolved Tensions After World War I
▶Causes of World War II
▶Conducting World War II
▶Mass Atrocities
▶Causation in Global Conflict
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▶UNIT 8

Overview
▶Setting the Stage for the Cold War and Decolonization
▶The Cold War
▶Effects of the Cold War
▶Spread of Communism after 1900
▶Decolonization after 1900
▶Newly Independent States
▶Global Resistance to Established Power Structures
▶End of the Cold War
▶Causation in the Age of the Cold War and Decolonization
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▶UNIT 9

Overview
▶Advances in Technology and Exchange
▶Technological Advancements and Limitations—Disease
▶Technology and the Environment
▶Economics in the Global Age
▶Calls for Reform and Responses
▶Globalized Culture
▶Resistance to Globalization
▶Institutions Developing in a Globalized World
▶Continuity and Change in a Globalized World
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Part 1: Human Development to c. 600 B.C.E.

Sections

The First Migrations

The Agricultural Revolution

The First Civilizations

Hinduism and Judaism