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Introduction | p. 1 |
How to Use This Book | p. 2 |
The Advanced Placement Examination in World History: An Overview | p. 4 |
Multiple-Choice Question Strategies | p. 7 |
Free-Response (Essay) Questions: General Tips | p. 13 |
Document-Based Question Strategies | p. 17 |
Change-over-Time Essay Question Strategies | p. 25 |
Comparative Essay Question Strategies | p. 29 |
Foundations of World Civilization: (CA. 8000 B.C.E.-600 C.E.) | p. 35 |
Unit Overview | p. 36 |
Geography, Environment, and Humanity | p. 41 |
Geographic orientation | |
Humanity and the environment | |
Quick Review | p. 43 |
Building Blocks of Civilization | p. 45 |
Early humans and the Stone Age | |
Neolithic revolution: Pastoralism and agriculture | |
From Stone Age to civilization: Early cities, metallurgy, and writing | |
Quick Review | p. 51 |
Major Societies, Kingdoms, and Empires to 600 C.E. | p. 53 |
The river valley civilizations | |
The Celts | |
The ancient Middle East | |
Greece and Rome | |
China through the Han and Sui dynasties | |
Central Asia | |
Early Japan | |
Classical India | |
Byzantium | |
Early medieval Europe | |
Bantu Africa, Nubia, and Ghana | |
Early cultures in the Americas | |
Quick Review | p. 68 |
Social Structure and Cross-Cultural Connections | p. 70 |
Class structures | |
Forms of government | |
Slavery | |
War | |
Trade | |
Religious interaction | |
The migration of peoples | |
Quick Review | p. 76 |
Religious Traditions and Belief Systems | p. 78 |
Polytheism | |
Judaism | |
Hinduism | |
Buddhism | |
Daoism (Taoism) | |
Confucianism | |
Christianity | |
Islam | |
Quick Review | p. 92 |
Unit Two: Review Questions | p. 94 |
World Cultures Maturing: (600-1450) | p. 99 |
Unit Overview | p. 100 |
Europe During the Middle Ages and the Renaissance | p. 104 |
Feudalism and the manor system | |
The ideal of Christendom | |
The western monarchies and the eastern frontier | |
The Crusades | |
Urbanization, trade, and society | |
Medieval culture | |
The Renaissance | |
Quick Review | p. 117 |
Islam in the Middle East and Africa | p. 120 |
The expansion of Islam and the first caliphates | |
Islam in Saharan and sub-Saharan Africa | |
The rise of the Turks | |
Islamic culture | |
Quick Review | p. 125 |
China, Japan, and East Asia | p. 127 |
The Sui and Tang dynasties | |
Song (Sung) China | |
The Mongol conquest and Yuan China | |
The Early Ming dynasty | |
Heian Japan | |
Feudal Japan and the first shogunates | |
Korea and Vietnam | |
Quick Review | p. 133 |
South and Southeast Asia | p. 136 |
India and the Delhi Sultanate | |
Other Indian states | |
Southeast Asia | |
The Polynesian migrations | |
Quick Review | p. 140 |
The Mongol Empires | p. 142 |
Genghis Khan and the rise of the Mongols | |
The first wave of conquest | |
The second wave of conquest and the Pax Mongolica | |
Breakup of the Mongol Empire | |
Quick Review | p. 144 |
Sub-Saharan Africa | p. 147 |
Introduction to sub-Saharan Africa | |
West and Central Africa | |
The eastern coast | |
Quick Review | p. 150 |
The Americas | p. 153 |
North America | |
Mexico and Central America | |
South America | |
Quick Review | p. 157 |
Unit Three: Review Questions | p. 160 |
World Cultures Interacting: (1450-1750) | p. 167 |
Unit Overview | p. 168 |
Europe: Reformation, Absolutism, and Enlightenment | p. 173 |
The Protestant Reformation and its aftermath | |
Absolute and parliamentary monarchies | |
The printing press, the Scientific Revolution, and Enlightenment philosophy | |
Society and economics | |
Quick Review | p. 182 |
Age of Discovery, Age of Imperialism: The Western Campaign of Exploration and Colonization | p. 185 |
Economic motivations and technological capabilities | |
The Iberian wave of exploration: Spain and Portugal | |
The northern wave: France, the Dutch Republic, and England | |
Quick Review | p. 191 |
Islamic Empires in the Middle East and Africa | p. 193 |
The Ottoman Empire | |
North Africa under the Ottoman Empire | |
The Safavid Empire in Persia | |
Quick Review | p. 197 |
China, Japan, and East Asia | p. 199 |
Ming China | |
The Qing (Manchu) conquest of China | |
Feudal war and reunification in Japan | |
The Tokugawa Shogunate and the consolidation of Japan | |
Quick Review | p. 203 |
South and Southeast Asia | p. 206 |
Mughal India | |
Southeast Asia | |
Quick Review | p. 209 |
Sub-Saharan Africa | p. 211 |
West and Central Africa | |
South Africa | |
East Africa | |
African culture | |
The Atlantic slave trade | |
Quick Review | p. 215 |
The Americas as "New World" | p. 217 |
New Spain | |
Portuguese Brazil | |
Dutch and English North America | |
French Canada and Louisiana | |
The Russian-American Company | |
The Columbian Exchange | |
Quick Review | p. 222 |
Unit Four: Review Questions | p. 224 |
World Cultures in the Modern Era: (1750-1914) | p. 231 |
Unit Overview | p. 232 |
The Europeans at Home: Revolution, Reaction, and Reform | p. 237 |
The French Revolution and the Napoleonic era | |
Reaction and reform: Politics in Europe, 1815-1914 | |
Intellectual and cultural currents | |
Quick Review | p. 245 |
Industrialization and Worldwide Economic Trends | p. 248 |
The Industrial Revolution | |
Economic theories and movements | |
The global impact of industrialization | |
Quick Review | p. 253 |
The Europeans Abroad: Imperialism, Nationalism, and Foreign Policy | p. 256 |
Causes of imperialism | |
Europe's overseas empires | |
Aggression at home: Nationalism, warfare, and alliance systems | |
Quick Review | p. 262 |
The Middle East | p. 265 |
The decline of the Ottoman Empire | |
Egypt and North Africa | |
Persia, the Caucasus, and Central Asia | |
Quick Review | p. 270 |
China and Japan | p. 272 |
Qing (Manchu) China in decline | |
Isolation and partial modernization in Tokugawa Japan | |
The Meiji Restoration and Japanese ascendancy | |
Quick Review | p. 280 |
India and Southeast Asia | p. 283 |
From foothold to mastery: The British in late-eighteenth-century India | |
India under British rule: The 1800s | |
Southeast Asia | |
Quick Review | p. 288 |
Sub-Saharan Africa | p. 291 |
Freedom's twilight: African states from the late 1700s to the mid-1800s | |
The end of the Atlantic slave trade | |
European imperialism and the "Scramble for Africa" | |
Quick Review | p. 298 |
Revolution and Consolidation in North and South America | p. 301 |
The American Revolution and the birth of the United States | |
The Haitian Rebellion | |
The Latin American wars of independence | |
Political consolidation in Latin America | |
Quick Review | p. 308 |
Unit Five: Review Questions | p. 312 |
The Twentieth Century and Contemporary World Cultures: (1914-Present) | p. 319 |
Unit Overview | p. 320 |
World War I | p. 327 |
Background and beginning | |
Combat | |
The home front | |
The Paris Peace Conference | |
Long-term consequences | |
Quick Review | p. 335 |
The Twenty Years' Crisis: The World During the Interwar Period | p. 338 |
Political extremism and economic depression in Europe | |
Nationalism and modernization in the Middle East | |
Militarism and revolution in Asia | |
Dictatorship in Latin America | |
Quick Review | p. 348 |
World War II and the Holocaust | p. 351 |
The road to war | |
The Axis ascendant, 1939-1941 | |
The Allied quest for victory, 1942-1945 | |
The Holocaust and other war crimes | |
Quick Review | p. 360 |
The Cold War | p. 363 |
Wartime diplomacy | |
The Cold War begins, 1945-1949 | |
The Cold War globalizes, 1949-1968 | |
The late stages of the Cold War, 1968-1991 | |
Quick Review | p. 371 |
Divergent Forms of Development in the Postwar World, 1945-1991 | p. 374 |
Recovery in postwar Europe | |
Decolonization and the emergence of the developing world | |
The Middle East | |
Africa | |
Asia | |
Latin America | |
Quick Review | p. 390 |
Social Developments, Cultural Changes, and Intellectual Trends | p. 393 |
Economic globalization | |
Social trends and movements | |
Women and the shift in gender relations | |
Thought, culture, and science | |
Quick Review | p. 403 |
Integration or Fragmentation? Globalism in the Late Twentieth and Early Twenty-first Centuries | p. 407 |
Diplomacy after the Cold War | |
Security concerns | |
Nationalist extremism, ethnic tensions, and religious fundamentalism | |
Environmental issues | |
Regionalism, globalization, and multiculturalism | |
Quick Review | p. 414 |
Unit Six: Review Questions | p. 417 |
Model Advanced Placement World History Examinations | p. 423 |
Model Examination I | p. 427 |
Model Examination II | p. 451 |
Index | p. 477 |
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