The purpose of the AP World History: Modern course is to develop greater understanding of the evolution of global processes and contacts, in interaction with different types of human societies from 1200-the present. This understanding is advanced through a combination of selective factual knowledge and appropriate analytical skills. The course highlights the nature of changes in international frameworks and their causes and consequences, as well as comparisons among major societies. The course emphasizes relevant factual knowledge deployed in conjunction with leading interpretive issues and types of historical evidence. The course builds on an understanding of cultural, institutional, and technological precedents that, along with geography, set the human stage. Periodization, explicitly discussed, forms an organizing principle for dealing with change and continuity throughout the course. Specific themes provide further organization to the course, along with the consistent attention to contacts among societies that form the core of Modern World History as a field of study.

The best way to study in this class is to pace yourself. What I recommend is that you complete 1 page of the Unit Reading Guide per day. That way, you can ask questions the next day, and it will give you extra days before to study for the test. I know you think you test better by procrastinating, but there's a difference between knowing and understanding!