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AP®︎ World History Study Guides

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Unit 1: The Global Tapestry

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Topic 1.1
Developments in East Asia from c. 1200 to c. 1450

Topic 1.2
Developments in Dar al-Islam from c. 1200 to c. 1450

Topic 1.3
Developments in South and Southeast Asia from c. 1200 to c. 1450

Topic 1.4
State Building in the Americas

Topic 1.5
State Building in Africa

Topic 1.6
Developments in Europe from c. 1200 to c. 1450

Topic 1.7
Comparison in the Period from c. 1200 to c. 1450

Unit 2: Networks of Exchange

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Topic 2.1
The Silk Roads

Topic 2.2
The Mongol Empire and the Making of the Modern World

Topic 2.3
Exchange in the Indian Ocean

Topic 2.4
Trans-Saharan Trade Routes

Topic 2.5
Cultural Consequences of Connectivity

Topic 2.6
Environmental Consequences of Connectivity

Topic 2.7
Comparison of Economic Exchange

Unit 3: Land-Based Empires

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Topic 3.1
Empires Expand

Topic 3.2
Empires: Administration

Topic 3.3
Empires: Belief Systems

Topic 3.4
Comparison in Land-Based Empires

Unit 4: Transoceanic Interconnections

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Topic 4.1
Technological Innovations from 1450 to 1750

Topic 4.2
Exploration: Causes and Events from 1450 to 1750

Topic 4.3
Columbian Exchange

Topic 4.4
Maritime Empires Established

Topic 4.5
Maritime Empires Maintained and Developed

Topic 4.6
Internal and External Challenges to State Power from 1450 to 1750

Topic 4.7
Changing Social Hierarchies from 1450 to 1750

Topic 4.8
Continuity and Change from 1450 to 1750

Unit 5: Revolutions

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Topic 5.1
The Enlightenment

Topic 5.2
Nationalism and Revolutions in the Period from 1750 to 1900

Topic 5.3
Industrial Revolution Begins

Topic 5.4
Industrialization Spreads in the Period from 1750 to 1900

Topic 5.5
Technology of the Industrial Age

Topic 5.6
Industrialization: Government’s Role from 1750 to 1900

Topic 5.7
Economic Developments and Innovations in the Industrial Age

Topic 5.8
Reactions to the Industrial Economy from 1750 to 1900

Topic 5.9
Society and the Industrial Age

Topic 5.10
Continuity and Change in the Industrial Age

Unit 6: Consequences of Industrialization

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Topic 6.1
Rationales for Imperialism from 1750 to 1900

Topic 6.2
State Expansion from 1750 to 1900

Topic 6.3
Indigenous Responses to State Expansion from 1750 to 1900

Topic 6.4
Global Economic Development from 1750 to 1900

Topic 6.5
Economic Imperialism from 1750 to 1900

Topic 6.6
Causes of Migration in an Interconnected World

Topic 6.7
Effects of Migration

Topic 6.8
Causation in the Imperial Age

Unit 7: Global Conflict

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Topic 7.1
Shifting Power After 1900

Topic 7.2
Causes of World War I

Topic 7.3
Conducting World War I

Topic 7.4
Economy in the Interwar Period

Topic 7.5
Unresolved Tensions After World War I

Topic 7.6
Causes of World War II

Topic 7.7
Conducting World War II

Topic 7.8
Mass Atrocities After 1900

Topic 7.9
Causation in Global Conflict

Unit 8: Cold War and Decolonization

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Topic 8.1
Setting the Stage for the Cold War and Decolonization

Topic 8.2
The Cold War

Topic 8.3
Effects of the Cold War

Topic 8.4
Spread of Communism After 1900

Topic 8.5
Decolonization After 1900

Topic 8.6
Newly Independent States

Topic 8.7
Global Resistance to Established Power Structures After 1900

Topic 8.8
End of the Cold War

Topic 8.9
Causation in the Age of the Cold War and Decolonization

Unit 9: Globalization

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Topic 9.1
Advances in Technology and Exchange After 1900

Topic 9.2
Technological Advances and Limitations After 1900: Disease

Topic 9.3
Technological Advances: Debates About the Environment After 1900

Topic 9.4
Economics in the Global Age

Topic 9.5
Calls for Reform and Responses After 1900

Topic 9.6
Globalized Culture After 1900

Topic 9.7
Resistance to Globalization After 1900

Topic 9.8
Institutions Developing in a Globalized World

Topic 9.9
Continuity and Change in a Globalized World

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