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AP World History: Modern
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Topic 1
Unit 1: The Global Tapestry
Unit 1 asks you to hold six regions of the world in your head at once, and students try to do it by memorising six separate stories. That is why the unit feels…
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Unit 2: Networks of Exchange
Silk, porcelain, spices, gold, salt. Students spend hours learning who traded what, and then a question asks why trade grew and the list is no help at all.…
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Unit 3: Land-Based Empires
Every ruler in this unit faces the same practical problem. You have conquered territory that is weeks of travel from your capital, and the people who actually…
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Unit 4: Transoceanic Interconnections
Ask most students why Europeans sailed and you get a name — Columbus, da Gama, Magellan. The explorer is the least useful answer available. What actually made…
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Unit 5: Revolutions
This unit has two engines running at once. An intellectual revolution that changed how people justified political authority, and an industrial revolution that…
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Unit 6: Consequences of Industrialization
This is the unit on the consequences of industrialisation, 1750 to 1900. One distinction decides most of the marks in this unit, and it is easy to state and…
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Unit 7: Global Conflict
The organising question of this unit is not what happened in the wars. Campaigns and battles earn almost nothing on this exam. The question is why the…
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Unit 8: Cold War and Decolonization
Two processes run through this unit at the same time: a global ideological rivalry, and the end of empire. Studied separately they are twice the work and half…
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Unit 9: Globalization
Unit 9's central move is evaluative rather than narrative. Almost every development it names produced a benefit and a cost, and the questions reward answers…