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of change, continuity
and comparison
throughout the course.
AP® WORLD HISTORY
COURSE APPROACH
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AP World History is designed to be a college-level course taught to high
school students. The content is world history from 8000 BCE to the present.
The course will be a student-centered approach on the Five Themes of AP
World History which addresses the Seven Curricular Requirements as
outlined by College Board, providing for an evenly distributed curriculum. It
looks at the common threads of humanity over time: trade, religion, politics,
society, and technology. It investigates how societies/economic systems/
governments have changed and continued over time in different places. The
course will meet requirements emphasizing the level of rigor and content
necessary for the successful completion of the AP exam. Students will use a
variety of sources including but not limited to a diverse array of primary
sources, texts, visuals, and other scholarly support materials as outlined by
the Resource Requirements of College Board in order to analyze, synthesize,
interpret and create a wide range of assessments. The course teaches students
to analyze evidence and interpretations presented in historical scholarship.
The course will be truly global, focusing on the connections between world
civilizations throughout history, and will give students a clear understanding
of today’s interconnected world.
FIVE OVERARCHING THEMES OF AP WORLD HISTORY
1. Interaction between humans and the environment.
2. Development and interaction of cultures.
3. State-building, expansion, and conflict.
4. Creation, expansion, and interaction of economic systems.
5. Development and transformation of social structures
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guidelines are used to
select relevant course
content from 8000
BCE to the present.
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[C3] – The six
overarching themes
articulated in the
Course Description
receive approximately
equal attention
throughout the course
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provides balanced
global coverage, with
Africa, the Americas,
Asia, and Europe all
represented. No more
than 30 percent of
course time is devoted
to European history.
[C5] – The course
teaches students to
analyze evidence and
interpretations
presented in historical
scholarship.
[C6] – The course
Bulliet, Richard et. al., The Earth and Its Peoples: A Global History,
Advanced Placement Edition. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2005.
includes extensive
instruction in analysis
and interpretation of a
wide variety of
primary sources, such
as documentary
material, maps,
statistical tables,
works of art, and
pictorial and graphic
materials.
Supplemental Readings (Mostly collections of documents)
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PRIMARY TEXTBOOK &
SUPPLEMENTARY READINGS
o 2003-2006 AP World History Essay Questions, Rubrics and
Student Samples (AP Central)
o Andrea, Al and Overfield, James. The Human Record: Sources of
Global History, 4th ed. Vols 1 & 2. Boston: Houghton Mifflin,
2001.
o The Colombian Exchange, Crosby, Praeger, 2003.
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provides students with
frequent practice in
writing analytical and
interpretive essays
such as documentbased questions
(DBQ) and thematic
essays addressing
issues of change,
continuity, and
comparison (see the
AP World History
Course Description for
more information).
o Cracking the AP World History Exam: Student Study Guide.
Princeton Review, 2004.
o Guns, Germs and Steel by Diamond Norton, 1999.
o Readings in Ancient History: From Gilgamesh to Diocletian by
Bailkey. DC Heath, 1992.
o Student Resources for textbook available at http:
college.hmco.com/students
o Stearns, Peter and Gosch, Stephen, et al. Documents in World
History. Vol. 1 & Vol 2 New York: Longman 2003
o Wiesner, Merry and Wheeler, William, et al. Discovering the
Global Past: A Look at the Evidence Vol 1. & Vol. 2 Boston:
Houghton Mifflin, 2002.
o Various Articles, Novels/ Monographs [SEE THE COURSE
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COURSE PLANNER
Semester One
Unit 1: CHAPTERS 1-7 (8000 B.C.E to 600 C.E.)
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1. First River Valley Civilizations, 8000-1500 BCE
2. New Civilizations in the Eastern and Western Hemispheres,
2200-250 BCE
3. The Mediterranean and Middle East, 2000-500 BCE
4. Greece and Iran, 1000-30 BCE
5. Age of Empires: Rome and Han China, 753 BCE-600 CE
6. The Mediterranean and Middle East, 1500 BC-600 CE
7. Networks and Communications of Exchange, 300 BCE-600 CE
Focus Questions: What is civilization? Who is civilized?
Does change occur by diffusion or independent invention?
Comparisons: early civilizations, major belief systems, systems of
social inequality, cities, political systems, trading systems,
migrations, roles of nomadic peoples.
Primary Sources: Formations of Civilizations (8000 B.C.E to 600 C.E.)
 Selection from Hammurabi’s Code
 Selection from the Epic of Gilgamesh
 The Hymn to the Nile
 Selection from The Republic
 Selection from the Classic of History (Shu Jing)
 Selection of the Confucius’ Analects
 Selection from Ashoka’s Rock and Pillar Edicts
 Selection from the Constantine’s Edict of Toleration
 Selection from The Art of War
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The Ten Commandments
Setting in Motion the Wheel of the Law
The Sermon on the Mount
Unit 2: CHAPTERS 8-15 (600 C.E. to 1500 C.E)
1. Rise of Islam, 600-1200
2. Christian Europe, 600-1200
3. Inner and East Asia, 600-1200
4. People and Civilizations of the Americas, 600-1500
5. Mongol Eurasia, 1200-1500
6. Tropical Africa and Asia, 1200-1500
7. Latin West, 1200-1500
8. Maritime Revolution, 1400-1500
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Focus Questions: Should we study cultural areas or states? Did
changes in this period occur from the effects of nomadic or urban
growth? Was there a world economic network during this period?
Comparisons: Japanese versus European feudalism, European
monarchy versus African empires, role of major cities. Aztec versus
Incan empires.
Primary Sources: Exchange and Encounter (600 C.E. to 1500 C.E)
 Selection from Corpus Juris Civilis
 Selection from The Qu’ran
 A Mirror for Princes
 Collection of Chinese poetry from the Tang and Song dynasty (Li Bao,
etc.)
 Selection from Sci Shonagon’s The Pillow Book
 Selection from Eisai’s Drinking Tea for Long Life
 Selection from the Mayan Popol Vuh
 Ordinances of the Merchants
 Urban II’s Call for the Crusades
 Selection from Bahul ad-Din’s Saladin’s Courage and Steadfastness
 Selection from Ibn Battuta’s Travels in Africa
 Selection from Sundiata: An Epic of Old Mali
 Selection from the Magna Carta
 Selection from The Decameron
 Selection from The Travels of Marco Polo
Unit 3: CHAPTERS 16- 25 (1500 C.E. to 1850 C.E.)
1. Transformations in Europe, 1500 -1750
2. Diversity of American Colonial Societies, 1530-1770
3. Atlantic System and Africa, 1550-1800
4. Southwest Asia and the Indian Ocean, 1500-1750
5. Northern Eurasia, 1500-1800
6. Revolutionary Changes in the Atlantic World, 1750-1800
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7. Early Industrial Revolution, 1760-1800
8. Nation Building in the America’s, 1800-1850
9. Africa, India, and the New British Empire, 1750-1850
10. Land Empires in the Age of Imperialism, 1800-1850
Focus Questions: To what extent did Europe become predominant in
the world economy during this period?
Comparisons: Imperial systems in Europe versus Asia; coercive labor
systems, empire building in Asia, Africa, and Europe; interactions
with the West (Russia versus others).
Primary Sources: Emergence of the First Global Age (1500 C.E. to 1750
C.E.)
 Selection from Bernal Diaz’s The True Story of the Conquest of Mexico
(Montezuma’s Death)
 Selection from Bartoleme de Las Casas’ Brief Account of the Devastation
of the Indies
 Selection from Christopher Columbus’s journal-The First Voyage of
Christopher Columbus
 Selection from Tokugawa Iemitsu’s Exclusion of the Portuguese; Closed
Country Edict of 1635
 Selection from Yamaga Soko’s The Way of the Samurai
 Selection from Matteo Ricci’s Journal
 Selection from a Confucian Morality Book- Meritorious Deeds at No
Cost
 Selection from Niccolo Machiavelli The Prince
 Selection from Martin Luther’s 95 Theses
 Selection from Peter the Great- Edicts and Decrees-Learning from Europe
 Selection from Cardinal Richelieu’s The Political Testament
 Selection from the English Bill of Rights
Semester Two
Unit 4: CHAPTERS 26-28 (1750 C.E. to 1914)
1. The New Balance of Power, 1750-1900
2. The New Imperialism, 1869-1914
3. The Crisis of the Imperial Order, 1900-1929
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Focus Questions: Through what processes did the influence of
industrialization spread throughout the world? How did the rights
of individuals and groups change in this period?
Comparisons: Industrial Revolution in Europe versus Japan,
political revolutions, reactions to foreign domination, nationalism,
western interventions, women in Europe of different classes.
Unit 5: CHAPTERS 29-33 (1914 C.E. to present)
1. The Collapse of the Old Order, 1929-1949
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2. Striving for Independence, Africa,
India, Latin America, 1900-1949
3. The Cold War, 1945-1975
4. Post Cold War, 1975 -1991
5. Globalization, 1991 to present
Focus Questions: How do ideological struggles provide an
explanation for many of the conflicts of the 20th century? How
have conflict and change influenced migration patterns internally
and internationally? How have international organizations
influenced change?
Comparisons: Decolonization in Africa versus India, role of
women in revolutions, effects of the World Wars on areas outside
Europe, nationalist movements, impact of Western society and
culture on others.
Primary Sources: Age of Revolution, Technological Age, and Modern Day
(1750 C.E. to present)
 The American Declaration of Independence
 The Declaration of the Rights of Men and the Declaration of the Rights of
Women
 Selection from Wollstonecraft’s Vindications of the Rights ofWomen
 Selection from Edward Jenner’s An Inquiry into the Causes and Effects
of the Variable Vaccine
 Selection from the Records of the Maji Maji Rebellion
 Selection from Rudyard Kipling’s “The White Man’s Burden”
 Selection from Kangxi’s Self Portrait
 Selection from Lin Zexu’s Letter to Queen Victoria
 Selection from The Treaty of Nanjing
 Selection from Mitsui Takafusa’s Some Observations on Merchants
 Selection from Wilfred Owen- Dulce et Decorum Est
 Selection from Woodrow Wilson-Fourteen Points
 The Balfour Declaration
 Selection from Lazaro Cardenas’s Speech to the Nation
 Selection of twentieth-century propaganda posters-World War I, Russian
Revolution, World War II, the Cultural Revolution, peace protests in the
nuclear world
 Selection from the Muslim Brotherhood’s Toward the Light
 Selection from James Aggrey’s Parable of the Eagle
 Selection from Gandhi’s Indian Home Rule
 Selection from Nehru’s on the Colonial Revolution
 Selection from Joseph Stalin’s The Results of the First Five-Year Plan
 Selection from the U.S. Strategic Bombing Survey-The Effects of the
Atomic Bomb
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