AP World History
Course Description
In AP World History: Modern, students investigate significant events, individuals, developments, and processes from 1200 to the present. Students develop and use the same skills, practices, and methods employed by historians: analyzing primary and secondary sources; developing historical arguments; making historical connections; and utilizing reasoning about comparison, causation, and continuity and change over time. The course provides six themes that students explore throughout the course in order to make connections among historical developments in different times and places: humans and the environment, cultural developments and interactions, governance, economic systems, social interactions and organization, and technology and innovation.
Summer work: I do NOT require any reading or assignments over the Summer for AP World. We will have a busy school year, so enjoy your time off while you can!
2023-2024 Materials List
Pencils with erasers
Blue or black ink pens
Highlighter(s)
Pack of colored pencils/markers
Loose-leaf college ruled notebook paper
3 in. Binder/ 10 dividers we will label these together in class
Headphones that you can plug into your computer (no Airpods)
***Other materials may be required throughout the year; students will be given advance notice
Unit 1: The global tapestry
Chapter 17: Mongols, Turks, Ottomans 1000-1450ish
Chapter 18: African Kingdoms (Mali/ Zimbabwe), Christianity/ Islam in Africa, Storytelling Traditions
Chapter 19: Medieval Europe (fall of Byzantine Empire, HRE), Christianity in Medieval Europe, The Crusades, Reform Movements
Chapter 20: Toltecs, Mexica, Tenochtitlan, Aztecs, Iroquois, Incas, Australian Nomadic Society, Pacific Islands
Unit 2: Networks of Exchange
Chapter 21: Marco Polo, Missionaries, John of Montecristo, Cross-Cultural Trade, Black Death, Ming Dynasty, Renaissance, Age of Exploration (colonization of American islands)
Unit 3: Land based empires
Chapter 23: Protestant/ Catholic Reformations, Witch hunts/ Religious Wars, Capitalist society, Scientific Revolution
Chapter 26: Ming/ Qing Dynasties, Scholar-Bureaucrats, Family in Asia, Neo-Confuciansim, Tokugawa Shogunate
Chapter 27: Islamic Empires (Ottoman, Safavid, Mughal), Transition of Empires
Unit 4: Transoceanic Interconnections
Chapter 22: Age of Exploration, Trading Post Empires, The Columbian Exchange, Seven Years’ War, Epidemic Diseases/ Population Decline
Chapter 24: North/ South American colonies and conquests, Australia/ Pacific Islands
Chapter 25: African Politics/ Slave Trade - African-American Cultural Traditions (syncretism)
Unit 5: revolutions
Chapter 28: American, French, Haitian, Other Latin American Revolutions, Conservatism v. Liberalism, Slavery, Women’s Rights, Nationalism, Unification of Italy and Germany
Chapter 29: Introduction of Industrialization/ Capitalism, Urbanization/ Migration, Global Effects of Industrialization
Unit 6: consequences of industrialization
Chapter 30: US Westward Expansion/ Civil War, Canadian Dominion, Political Experimentation in LA, Migration to America, Identity in LA
Chapter 31: Decline of Ottoman Empire, Russian Revolution, Opium Wars, Taiping Rebellion, Meiji Restoration
Chapter 32: Imperialism, Motivations, Scramble for Africa, US Imperialism in LA/ Pacific, Nationalism and Anticolonial movements
Unit 7: global conflict
Chapter 33: WWI
Chapter 34: Post-war changes, Great Depression, Communism in Russia, Fascism in Italy/ Germany
Chapter 35: India/ China restructuring, Imperial Japan, African Nationalism, Impact of WWI and Great Depression
Chapter 36 pt. 1: Second Sino-Japanese War, WWII abroad and at home, Holocaust, Women and war
Unit 8: Cold war and decolonization
Chapter 36 pt. 2: The Cold War
Chapter 37: Independence in Asia/ Africa, Lasting problems after colonialism, Communism in Asia
Unit 9: Globalization
Chapter 38: Collapse of Soviet Union, Terrorism, International organizations
Course Resources
World Literature Resources