International Baccalaureate · IB Diploma
History · SL
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Handouts · AP World History: Modern (9)
Exercise sheets · AP World History: Modern (71)
- 1.1 Developments in East Asia from c. 1200 to c. 1450
- 1.2 Developments in Dar al-Islam from c. 1200 to c. 1450
- 1.3 Developments in South and Southeast Asia from c. 1200 to c. 1450
- 1.4 State Building in the Americas
- 1.5 State Building in Africa
- 1.6 Developments in Europe from c. 1200 to c. 1450
- 1.7 Comparison in the Period from c. 1200 to c. 1450
- 2.1 The Silk Roads
- 2.2 The Mongol Empire and the Making of the Modern World
- 2.3 Exchange in the Indian Ocean
- 2.4 Trans-Saharan Trade Routes
- 2.5 Cultural Consequences of Connectivity
- 2.6 Environmental Consequences of Connectivity
- 2.7 Comparison of Economic Exchange
- 3.1 Empires Expand
- 3.2 Empires: Administration
- 3.3 Empires: Belief Systems
- 3.4 Comparison in Land-Based Empires
- 4.1 Technological Innovations from 1450 to 1750
- 4.2 Exploration: Causes and Events from 1450 to 1750
- 4.3 Columbian Exchange
- 4.4 Maritime Empires Established
- 4.5 Maritime Empires Maintained and Developed
- 4.6 Internal and External Challenges to State Power from 1450 to 1750
- 4.7 Changing Social Hierarchies from 1450 to 1750
- 4.8 Continuity and Change from 1450 to 1750
- 5.1 The Enlightenment
- 5.2 Nationalism and Revolutions in the Period from 1750 to 1900
- 5.3 Industrial Revolution Begins
- 5.4 Industrialization Spreads in the Period from 1750 to 1900
- 5.5 Technology of the Industrial Age
- 5.6 Industrialization: Government’s Role from 1750 to 1900
- 5.7 Economic Developments and Innovations in the Industrial Age
- 5.8 Reactions to the Industrial Economy from 1750 to 1900
- 5.9 Society and the Industrial Age
- 5.10 Continuity and Change in the Industrial Age
- 6.1 Rationales for Imperialism from 1750 to 1900
- 6.2 State Expansion from 1750 to 1900
- 6.3 Indigenous Responses to State Expansion from 1750 to 1900
- 6.4 Global Economic Development from 1750 to 1900
- 6.5 Economic Imperialism from 1750 to 1900
- 6.6 Causes of Migration in an Interconnected World
- 6.7 Effects of Migration
- 6.8 Causation in the Imperial Age
- 7.1 Shifting Power After 1900
- 7.2 Causes of World War I
- 7.3 Conducting World War I
- 7.4 Economy in the Interwar Period
- 7.5 Unresolved Tensions After World War I
- 7.6 Causes of World War II
- 7.7 Conducting World War II
- 7.8 Mass Atrocities After 1900
- 7.9 Causation in Global Conflict
- 8.1 Setting the Stage for the Cold War and Decolonization
- 8.2 The Cold War
- 8.3 Effects of the Cold War
- 8.4 Spread of Communism After 1900
- 8.5 Decolonization After 1900
- 8.6 Newly Independent States
- 8.7 Global Resistance to Established Power Structures After 1900
- 8.8 End of the Cold War
- 8.9 Causation in the Age of the Cold War and Decolonization
- 9.1 Advances in Technology and Exchange After 1900
- 9.2 Technological Advances and Limitations After 1900: Disease
- 9.3 Technological Advances: Debates About the Environment After 1900
- 9.4 Economics in the Global Age
- 9.5 Calls for Reform and Responses After 1900
- 9.6 Globalized Culture After 1900
- 9.7 Resistance to Globalization After 1900
- 9.8 Institutions Developing in a Globalized World
- 9.9 Continuity and Change in a Globalized World
Presentation slides · AP World History: Modern (9)
Course units and learning goals
These lessons teach selected course objectives. Check the remaining coverage gaps; the material is not a complete preparation programme.
Prescribed subject/P1 · Historical sources and contextual evaluation
- Infer source meaning and compare claims
- Explain source value and limitation through origin, purpose and content
- provenance
- A source's origin and circumstances of production.
- corroboration
- Comparing independent evidence to test a claim.
World history topics/P2 · Causation, change and comparative essays
- Distinguish causes, triggers and consequences
- Build a comparative argument across the school's two selected topics
- causation
- An explanation of how factors contribute to outcomes.
- continuity
- Persistence of features across a period of change.
Historical investigation · Inquiry, evidence and methodological reflection
- Form a focused historical research question
- Evaluate selected sources and synthesize an evidence-based investigation
- historical inquiry
- An evidence-based investigation of a question about the past.
- significance
- Importance judged in a stated historical context.
Preparing for this qualification
- SL: source Paper 1 60 min 30%, essay Paper 2 90 min 45%, investigation 25%. HL: Paper 1 60 min 20%, Paper 2 90 min 25%, regional Paper 3 150 min 35%, investigation 20%.
- School selects one of five prescribed subjects (both cases), two of twelve world-history topics; HL selects one region with three sections. No selection is silently implied. Future 2028 focused/thematic studies are a different course.
Teaching coverage still needed
- School-selected prescribed subject, both cases, two world topics and HL regional sections need factual teaching and reviewed papers; future course needs its own complete package.
- Reviewed runtime bank remains unavailable; no practice registry promotion.
Specifications and sample documents
- History — Specimen papers · 2017 ↗
First assessment: 2017
- History — Subject brief · 2017 ↗
First assessment: 2017
- History — Subject brief · 2028 ↗
First assessment: 2028
- History — Specimen papers ↗
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