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The six historical periods, from approximately 8000 B.C.E. to the present, provide a temporal framework for the course. The dates for these periods were chosen due to their relation to the historical patterns identified by the key-concepts. The chart below identifies the name of each period, when it took place, and what percentage of this content will be present on the APWH Exam.
Historical Thinking Skills
History is a sophisticated quest for meaning about the past, beyond the effort to collect information. Historical analysis requires familiarity with a
great deal of information, including names, chronology, facts, and events. Without reliable and detailed information, historical thinking is not possible. Yet historical analysis involves much more than the compilation and recall of data; it also requires several distinctive historical thinking skills.
The four historical thinking skills presented below provide an essential structure for learning to think historically. These skills not only apply to AP World History; they also represent the type of skills required in all college-level historical scholarship. The interaction of skills and content found in this course is an approach that emphasizes historical scholarship’s reliance on diverse sources, each of which may reveal a different facet of the past.
1. Crafting Historical Arguments from Historical Evidence
2. Chronological Reasoning
3. Comparison and Contextualization
4. Historical Interpretation and Synthesis
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