AP World History: Modern: With 2 Practice Tests

by John McCannon

Overview

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Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781506262048
Publisher:	Barrons Educational Services
Publication date:	02/04/2020
Series:	Barron's Test Prep
Edition description:	Ninth Edition
Pages:	488
Sales rank:	666,082
Product dimensions:	8.30(w) x 10.60(h) x 1.00(d)
Age Range:	14 - 17 Years

About the Author

John McCannon earned a Ph.D. in history from the University of Chicago in 1994. He has taught Russian, European, and world history at several universities in the United States and Canada and is a former editor of the Canadian Journal of History. He has worked as an Advanced Placement Reader for the College Board and is the author of Red Arctic: Polar Exploration and the Myth of the North in the Soviet Union (1998) and A History of the Arctic: Nature, Exploration, and Exploitation (2012). He is currently an associate professor of history at Southern New Hampshire University.

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Table of Contents

UNIT ONE: INTRODUCTION


How to Use This Book


UNIT TWO: FOUNDATIONS OF WORLD CIVILIZATION

(ca. 8000 B.C.E.-600 C.E.)


Unit Overview

1 Geography, Environment, and Humanity

2 Building Blocks of Civilization

3 Major Societies, Kingdoms, and Empires to 600 C.E

4 Social Structure and Cross-Cultural Connections

5 Religious Traditions and Belief Systems


Unit Two: Review Questions


UNIT THREE: WORLD CULTURES

MATURING (600-1450)


Unit Overview

6 Europe During the Middle Ages and the Renaissance

7 Islam in the Middle East and Africa

8 China, Japan, and East Asia

9 South and Southeast Asia

10 The Mongol Empires

11 Sub-Saharan Africa

12 The Americas


Unit Three: Review Questions


UNIT FOUR: WORLD CULTURES

INTERACTING (1450-1750)


Unit Overview

13 Europe: Reformation, Absolutism, and Enlightenment

14 Age of Discovery, Age of Imperialism: The Western

Campaign of Exploration and Colonization

15 Islamic Empires in the Middle East and North Africa

16 China, Japan, and East Asia

17 South and Southeast Asia

18 Sub-Saharan Africa

19 The Americas as "New World"


Unit Four: Review Questions


UNIT FIVE: WORLD CULTURES IN

THE MODERN ERA (1750-1914)


Unit Overview

20 The Europeans at Home: Revolution, Reaction, and Reform

21 Industrialization and Worldwide Economic Trends

22 The Europeans Abroad: Imperialism, Nationalism, and Foreign Policy

23 The Middle East

24 China and Japan

25 India and Southeast Asia

26 Sub-Saharan Africa

27 Revolution and Consolidation in North and South America


Unit Five: Review Questions


UNIT SIX: THE TWENTIETH CENTURY

AND CONTEMPORARY WORLD

CULTURES (1914-PRESENT)


Unit Overview

28 World War I

29 The Twenty Years' Crisis: The World During the Interwar Period

30 World War II and the Holocaust

31 The Cold War

32 Divergent Forms of Development in the Postwar World, 1945-1991

33 Social Developments, Cultural Changes, and Intellectual Trends

34 Integration or Fragmentation?—Globalism in the Late Twentieth and Early Twenty-First Centuries


Unit Six: Review Questions


UNIT SEVEN: MODEL ADVANCED PLACEMENT WORLD HISTORY EXAMINATIONS

Model Test

Model Test

Appendix: Map of Selected World Regions


Index