AP World History: Modern


Unit 1: The Global Tapestry

How did states form, expand, and decline in the world during 1200–1450? What political, social, and cultural developments arose from that change?

1.1 - East Asia

1.2 - Dar al-Islam

1.3 - South and Southeast Asia

1.4 - The Americas

1.5 - Africa

1.6 - Europe

Unit 2: Networks of Exchange

How areas of the world in 1200-1450 were linked through trade and how these connections affected people, cultures, and environments

2.1 - Silk Roads

2.2 - The Mongols

2.3 - Indian Ocean Trade

2.4 - Trans-Saharan Trade

2.5 - Cultural Effects of Trade

2.6 - Environmental Effects of Trade

Unit 3: Land-Based Empires

Explore empires between 1450-1750 that held power of large contiguous areas of land

3.1 - Expansion of Land-based Empires

3.2 - Governments of Land-based Empires

3.3 - Belief Systems of Land-based Empires

Unit 4: Transoceanic Interconnections

Learn about advances in ocean exploration, the development of new maritime empires, and the effects of new cross-cultural encounters in 1450-1750

4.1 - New Technologies

4.2 - Exploration

4.3 - The Columbian Exchange

4.4 - Maritime Empires

4.5 - Expansion of Maritime Empires

4.6 - Resistance to European Expansion

4.7 - Class and Race

Unit 5: Revolutions

How did new political ideas and developments in technology lead to large-scale changes in governments, society, and economies in 1750-1900?

5.1 - The Enlightenment

5.2 - Revolutions

5.3 - Industrialization Begins

5.4 - Industrialization Spreads

5.5 - Technology in the Industrial Age

5.6 - State-led Industrialization

5.7 - Economic Effects of Industrialization

5.8 - Responses to Industrialization

5.9 - Social Effects of Industrialization

Unit 6: Consequences of Industrialization

Learn how different states acquired and expanded control over colonies and territories in 1750-1900

6.1 - Rationales for Imperialism

6.2 - Expansion of Imperialism

6.3 - Indigenous Responses to Imperialism

6.4 - Global Economic Development

6.5 - Economic Imperialism

6.6 - Causes of Migration

6.7 - Effects of Migration

Unit 7: Global Conflict

Study the global conflicts that dominated 1900–present

7.1 - Shifting Power

7.2 - Causes of WWI

7.3 - Conducting WWI

7.4 - Interwar Economy

7.5 - Interwar Politics

7.6 - Causes of WWII

7.7 - Conducting WWII

7.8 - Mass Atrocities after 1900

Unit 8: Cold War and Decolonization

Learn about colonies' persuits of independence and the global power struggle between capitalism and communism in 1900-present

8.1 - Context of the Cold War

8.2 - The Cold War

8.3 - Effects of the Cold War

8.4 - Spread of Communism

8.5 - Decolonization

8.6 - Newly Independent States

8.7 - Global Resistance

8.8 - End of the Cold War

Unit 9: Globalization

Investigate the causes and effects of the unprecedented connectivity of the modern world

9.1 - Advances in Technology

9.2 - Technological Advances and Limitations

9.3 - Environmental Impacts

9.4 - Global Economics

9.5 - Calls for Reform

9.6 - Globalized Culture

9.7 - Resistance to Globalization

9.8 - Globalized Institutions