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AP World History: Modern
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Unit 1: The Global Tapestry
Unit 1 asks you to hold six regions of the world in your head at once, and students try to do it by memo…
6:50
Unit 2: Networks of Exchange
Silk, porcelain, spices, gold, salt. Students spend hours learning who traded what, and then a question …
5:35
Unit 3: Land-Based Empires
Every ruler in this unit faces the same practical problem. You have conquered territory that is weeks of…
6:37
Unit 4: Transoceanic Interconnections
Ask most students why Europeans sailed and you get a name — Columbus, da Gama, Magellan. The explorer is…
6:46
Unit 5: Revolutions
This unit has two engines running at once. An intellectual revolution that changed how people justified …
6:14
Unit 6: Consequences of Industrialization
This is the unit on the consequences of industrialisation, 1750 to 1900. One distinction decides most of…
8:34
Unit 7: Global Conflict
The organising question of this unit is not what happened in the wars. Campaigns and battles earn almost…
8:40
Unit 8: Cold War and Decolonization
Two processes run through this unit at the same time: a global ideological rivalry, and the end of empir…
7:39
Unit 9: Globalization
Unit 9's central move is evaluative rather than narrative. Almost every development it names produced a …