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AP® World History: Modern
9 units, 117 topics. Each topic is explained in writing, drawn as a lesson you can watch, and checked with practice questions.
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Unit 1The Global Tapestry (c. 1200 to c. 1450)
- Song China's Government and the Civil Service Exam
- The Song Economic Revolution
- Chinese Influence on Japan, Korea, and Vietnam
- The Abbasid Caliphate Comes Apart
- How Islam Spread and What Its Scholars Built
- States of South and Southeast Asia
- Bhakti, Sufism, and Blended Belief
- The Mexica and Inca States
- Maya City-States and the Mound Builders
- Mali, Great Zimbabwe, and Ethiopia
- Feudalism and the Manor
- Kings, the Church, and the Growing Towns
- Comparing the World's States Around 1200
Unit 2Networks of Exchange (c. 1200 to c. 1450)
- The Silk Roads
- Credit, Paper Money, and the Trading Cities
- The Mongol Conquests
- How the Mongol Army Actually Fought
- Pax Mongolica and the Yam Relay
- The Four Khanates and the Breakup
- Monsoon Winds and the Indian Ocean
- The Swahili Coast and Merchant Diasporas
- Zheng He's Treasure Fleets
- Camels, Caravans, and Trans-Saharan Gold
- What Traveled Besides Goods
- The Black Death Rides the Trade Routes
- Crops on the Move
- Silk Roads, Indian Ocean, and Sahara Compared
Unit 3Land-Based Empires (c. 1450 to c. 1750)
- Gunpowder and the Rise of Four Empires
- The Ottomans and the Fall of Constantinople
- Safavids, Mughals, and the Manchu Conquest
- Palaces, Portraits, and Divine Right
- Devshirme, Salaried Samurai, and Bureaucratic Elites
- How Empires Actually Collected Their Money
- The Protestant Reformation Splits Europe
- Sunni, Shi'a, and the Ottoman-Safavid Border
- Sikhism and Blended Belief in South Asia
- Four Land Empires Side by Side
Unit 4Transoceanic Interconnections (c. 1450 to c. 1750)
- Caravels, Lateen Sails, Compass, and Astrolabe
- Why Europe Sailed
- The Voyages and the Line of Tordesillas
- Crops Crossing the Atlantic Both Ways
- Disease and the Collapse of Amerindian Populations
- Horses, Cattle, and the Remade Landscape
- Trading Posts Versus Land Empires
- The Atlantic Slave Trade
- The Middle Passage and the Sugar Plantation
- How a Joint-Stock Company Works
- Potosi Silver and the First Global Economy
- Mercantilism and the Triangular Trade
- Maroons, Revolts, and Resistance to Empire
- The Casta System and New Hierarchies
- The World Map Before and After 1450
Unit 5Revolutions (c. 1750 to c. 1900)
- The Enlightenment's New Idea About Power
- Expanding Who Counts as a Citizen
- The American and French Revolutions
- The Haitian Revolution
- Latin American Independence
- Nationalism and the Unification of Italy and Germany
- Why Britain Went First
- Cottage Industry Becomes the Factory
- Industry Spreads and Asia's Share Falls
- Steam, Steel, and the Second Industrial Revolution
- Meiji Japan, Egypt, and State-Led Industry
- Stock Markets, Limited Liability, and Global Firms
- Marx, Unions, and the Reformers
- Cities, Class, and the Working Day
- The World Before and After Industry
Unit 6Consequences of Industrialization (c. 1750 to c. 1900)
- The Arguments Used to Justify Empire
- The Berlin Conference and the Scramble for Africa
- Company Rule, the Raj, and Settler Colonies
- Quinine, Telegraphs, Steamships, and Machine Guns
- Rebellions and Resistance to Empire
- New States Forged in Resistance
- Cash Crops and the Export Economy
- Abolition and the Rise of Indentured Labor
- The Opium Wars and Economic Imperialism
- The Qing Under Pressure
- Why Fifty Million People Moved
- Where the Migrants Went
- Chinese Exclusion and the White Australia Policy
- Industry to Empire, Traced
Unit 7Global Conflict (c. 1900 to the present)
- Empires Fall and New Powers Rise
- The Alliance System and July 1914
- Why the Western Front Froze
- Total War, Propaganda, and Colonial Troops
- The Great Depression Goes Global
- Fascism, Communism, and the Managed Economy
- The Road to 1939
- How the Second World War Was Fought
- Radar, Firebombing, and the Bomb
- The Holocaust and Twentieth-Century Genocides
- From 1914 to 1945 as One Chain
Unit 8Cold War and Decolonization (c. 1900 to the present)
- A Wrecked Europe and Two Superpowers
- The Iron Curtain, Berlin, and Two Alliances
- The Arms Race and Mutually Assured Destruction
- Proxy Wars from Korea to Angola
- The Non-Aligned Movement
- The Chinese Revolution and Communism Spreading
- Land Reform and the Command Economy
- Two Roads Out of Empire
- The Partition of India
- New Borders, New States, New Problems
- Civil Rights, Apartheid, and Global Protest
- 1989 and the Soviet Collapse
- Cold War and Decolonization as One Story
Unit 9Globalization (c. 1900 to the present)
- From Telegraph to Internet
- Oil, Fertilizer, and the Green Revolution
- Vaccines, Antibiotics, and the Diseases That Remain
- Carbon, Warming, and the Environmental Debate
- Free Markets, Deng's China, and the Knowledge Economy
- Where One Product Actually Comes From
- The WTO, NAFTA, ASEAN, and the EU
- Suffrage, Civil Rights, and Global Feminism
- How Culture Went Global
- Pushback Against a Globalized World
- The UN, NGOs, and the Institutions of a Global Age
- The World in 1200 and the World Now