High AP World History: Modern

SEGMENT ONE

•Understanding the classical and post-classical eras

•Analyzing and comparing the cultures and governments of Song China, Dar al-Islam, Hindu-Based South and Southeast Asia, the Americas, sub-Saharan Africa, and Euroope

•Describing and explaining the development of the Abrahamic religions, Daoism, Confucianism, Hinduism, and Buddhism

•Recognizing the significance of the Mongol conquests to Afroeurasian history

•Comparing the Silk Roads, Indian Ocean Exchange, and Trans-Saharan Trade

•Recognizing the depth of the impact of the Black Death on Afroeurasian history

•Comparing the Ottoman, Mughal, and Safavid Empires

•Describing and analyzing the impact of the Protestant Reformations on Europe

•Describing and analyzing the impact of the Columbian Exchange and transoceanic empire-building on world history

•Comparing the impacts of technological maritime innovations, the printing press, and gunpowder weaponry on world history

•Describing and comparing the Enlightenment in its various forms from the 16th through 18th centuries

•Analyzing and comparing the American, French, Haitian, Latin American, and Springtime of Nations Revolutions

•Recognizing the significance of the Industrial Revolution as what is generally considered the most far-reaching change to human life since the development of farming some 10,000 years before

•Comparison and analysis of capitalism, socialism, and communism

•Describing and analyzing the gradual replacement of the aristocratic classes by the middle class

SEGMENT TWO

•Identifying and explaining the concept of nationalism and its dramatic increase in the 19th century

•Identifying and explaining the ways in which nationalism and industrialization effected a significant wave of new imperialism

•Describing and analyzing the impact of steam-powered international migration and the rise of global capital flows

•Analyzing and comparing the various reform movements, including abolitionism, women’s suffrage, and indigenous people’s rights, throughout the 19th century

•Describing and analyzing the alliances in the decades leading up to World War I

•Describing and analyzing the causes and course of World War I

•Identifying the consequences of World War I in the Russian Revolution, the economic struggles in the 20 years of the interwar period, and the dissolution of the Ottoman, Austrian, and German Empires

•Identifying and analyzing the roots of Japanese imperialism and the Sino-Japanese Wars

•Comparing the rise of totalitarian states in Italy, Germany, and Soviet Union

•Describing and analyzing the causes and course of World War II

•Identifying and comparing the mass atrocities against civilians from the Armenian genocide through the Chinese ethnic cleansing of the Uighurs in the 21st century

•Analyzing the causes and course of the Cold War

•Describing and analyzing the period of decolonization following World War II

•Describing and comparing the Cold War proxy conflicts, including the Berlin Airlift, Suez Conflict, Korean War, Vietnam War, Cuban Missile Crisis, and Malayan Emergency

•Identifying and analyzing the major technological advances of the 20th century, including the airplane, radio, telephone, atomic energy and weapons, Polio vaccine, digital computer, internet, and smartphone

•Identifying and analyzing the rise of globalizing institutions like the United Nations, World Trade Organization, and International Monetary Fund

•Identifying and analyzing ongoing sources of conflict, including the Arab-Israeli conflict, India-Pakistan tensions, China-Taiwan conflict, environmental concerns, and debates over economic systems