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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 and those related to transoceanic travel

-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



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