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High School AP World History

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Suggested Prerequisites

English 1

Description

In this course, you will refine your analytical skills, specifically with respect to historical comparisons, causation, and continuity-and-change over time. You will hone these skills as you study world history from 1200 to the present—the past eight centuries of history. Explore this history through the driving themes of physical environment, human culture, systems of government, economic systems, social classes, and technological innovations.

Module One: World Tour in the Years 1200 to 1450

-East Asia

-Dar al-Islam

-South and Southeast Asia

-The Americas

-Africa

-Europe


Module Two: Trade Across Lands and Seas, 1200 to 1450

-The Silk Roads

-Mongol empires

-Indian Ocean exchange

-Trans-Saharan trade

-Cultural exchange and consequences

-Environmental consequences of trade


Module Three: Land-Based Empires, 1450 to 1750

-Impact of new technology, such as gunpowder

-Strategies of rule across millions of people

-Changes in religious beliefs and impact on empires


Module Four: Empires Across Oceans, 1450 to 1750

-Significant technological innovations such as the printing press

-Motivations to explore

-Transoceanic trade and its consequences

-Colonization including governance and conflict


Module Five: The Age of Revolutions, 1750 to 1900

-The Enlightenment

-Political revolutions

-Industrial revolutions

-Political, economic, and social effects of industrial revolutions


Module Six: Industrialization Transforms the World, 1750 to 1900

-New wave of empire building

-New imperialism

-Responses of indigenous peoples to colonization

-International markets and supply chains

-Banana republics

-Opium wars

-Global migration and its impacts


Module Seven: History's Two Deadliest Wars, 1900 to 1945

-Global powers at the start of the twentieth century

-Causes of World War I

-Events and consequences of World War I

-The Great Depression

-Events leading up to World War II

-Events and consequences of World War II

-Mass atrocities


Module Eight: Avoiding Atomic Warfare and Ending Empires, 1945 to 1991

-Causes of the Cold War

-Ideological and power struggles between global superpowers

-Proxy wars of the Cold War era

-Containment policy

-Decolonization and independence movements

-Reactions to warfare and internal drives for change

-The end of the Cold War


Module Nine: Globalization from Telephones to Smartphones, 1900 to Present

-Developments in communication, energy, medical, agricultural, and shipping technologies

-Rise of new epidemic diseases and responses

-Environmental concerns and debate

-Global economics

-Modern calls for rights reform

-Impact of globalization on arts and culture

-Resistance to globalization

-Rise and proliferation of international organizations