AP World History: Modern

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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. 

The AP World History: Modern course requires that students learn world history from a global perspective. Balanced coverage of the regions within the course ensures that a single region is not situated at the center of the historical narrative. Students need basic geographical knowledge in order to understand world history. Geospatial awareness is also essential for students to build an understanding of the cross-cultural contacts, trade routes, migrations, etc., which are important concepts in the AP World History course. Because geographic naming conventions are not universal, the two maps define regions and show the locations and commonly used names of regions that students are likely to encounter on the AP World History Exam.

Map 1. AP World History: World Regions—A Big Picture View identifies five major geographical regions: Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe, and Oceania.

Map 2. AP World History: World Regions—A Closer Look identifies various subregions within the five major geographical regions.