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World History AP®

Designed to align with the AP® World History: Modern Course and Exam Description, this comprehensive year-long course provides a cohesive approach to learning and understanding the history of the world, while simultaneously preparing students to take the AP® World History: Modern exam.

Unit 1 • 8 Lessons

The Global Tapestry
Welcome to the year 1200 CE, a time of sprawling trade routes and mighty empires. A diverse collection of societies linked huge world regions across a web of interconnections.

Unit 2 • 8 Lessons

Networks of Exchange
If the world is indeed a tapestry, then networks of exchange were the threads that wove it together. See how the merchants who roamed these routes moved goods, ideas, and diseases across continents.

Unit 3 • 5 Lessons

Land-Based Empires
The bigger an empire gets, the more difficult it is to rule. How did the colossal land empires of the early modern period conquer and maintain their territories? Explore the expansion of empires and the administrative and religious systems used to control them.

Unit 4 • 9 Lessons

Transoceanic Interconnections
After 1492, transoceanic voyages linked the hemispheres in sustained connection for the first time, setting the stage for an exchange that forever changed the lives of people in Afro-Eurasia and the Americas.

Unit 5 • 11 Lessons

Revolutions
Beginning in the eighteenth century, an age of revolutions shook the foundations of global power and industry. Enter an era of revolutionary ideas and innovations as new nations formed and new forms of production were created.

Unit 6 • 9 Lessons

Consequences of Industrialization
Industrialization fueled empires. Thanks to innovations like steamships, trains, and machine guns, industrial empires spread their borders further than ever, opening new markets and resources to fuel their factories.

Unit 7 • 10 Lessons

Global Conflict
The transformations of the long nineteenth century set the stage for an era of unprecedented warfare, atrocity, and threat to our species’ survival.

Unit 8 • 10 Lessons

Cold War and Decolonization
As World War II ended, new global conflicts emerged. The Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union and decolonization movements reshaped the world order.

Unit 9 • 10 Lessons

Globalization
What does it mean to live in a global world? Explore the promises and problems of global connections, and how nationalism and identity continue to shape how people experience the world.