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AP World History: Modern is an introductory college-level modern world history course. Students cultivate their understanding of world history from c. 1200 CE to the present through analyzing historical sources and learning to make connections and craft historical arguments as they explore concepts like humans and the environment, cultural ...
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- Modern Development Committee
The Unit Guides and the “Instructional Approaches” section of the AP® World History Course and Exam Description (CED) may be useful in providing evidence for satisfying these curricular requirements.
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- College Course Equivalent
- Prerequisites
- Overview
- 1 HISTORICAL THINKING SKILLS AND REASONING PROCESSES
- 2 COURSE CONTENT
- Historical Thinking Skills and Reasoning Processes
- Historical Thinking Skills
- Developments and Processes 1
- Sourcing and Situation 2
- Reasoning Processes
- Course Content
- Themes
- THEME 1: HUMANS AND THE ENVIRONMENT (ENV)
- THEME 2: CULTURAL DEVELOPMENTS AND INTERACTIONS (CDI)
- THEME 3: GOVERNANCE (GOV)
- THEME 4: ECONOMIC SYSTEMS (ECN)
- THEME 5: SOCIAL INTERACTIONS AND ORGANIZATION (SIO)
- THEME 6: TECHNOLOGY AND INNOVATION (TEC)
- Spiraling the Themes
- Big Ideas Unit 1 Unit 2 Unit 3 Unit 4
- 2.2 The Mongol Empire and the Making of the Modern World
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College Board would like to acknowledge the following committee members, for their assistance with the development of this course. All individuals and their afiliations were current at the time of contribution. Greg Ahlquist, Webster Thomas High School, Webster, NY Rachel Jean-Baptiste, University of California, Davis, CA Tim Keirn, California Stat...
Cheryl Harmon, Senior Director, AP Instructional Design and PD Resource Development Chad Hoge, Director, AP History Content Development Daniel McDonough, Senior Director, AP Content Integration Allison Milverton, Director, AP Curricular Publications Kelly Stromberg, Senior Director, AP History Content Development Allison Thurber, Executive Directo...
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AP World History: Modern is designed to be the equivalent of an introductory college or university survey of modern world history.
There are no prerequisites for AP World History: Modern. Students should be able to read a college-level textbook and write grammatically correct, complete sentences. THIS PAGE IS INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK. AP WORLD HISTORY
This course framework provides a description of what students should know and be able to do to qualify for college credit or placement.
The historical thinking skills and reasoning processes are central to the study and practice of world history. Students should practice and develop these skills and processes on a regular basis over the span of the course.
spiral across units. Developments and Processes Sourcing and Situation Claims and Evidence in Sources Contextualization Making Connections Argumentation
spiral across units. Developments and Processes Sourcing and Situation Claims and Evidence in Sources Contextualization Making Connections Argumentation
spiral across units. Developments and Processes Sourcing and Situation Claims and Evidence in Sources Contextualization Making Connections Argumentation
spiral across units. Developments and Processes Sourcing and Situation Claims and Evidence in Sources Contextualization Making Connections Argumentation
spiral across units. Developments and Processes Sourcing and Situation Claims and Evidence in Sources Contextualization Making Connections Argumentation
spiral across units. Developments and Processes Sourcing and Situation Claims and Evidence in Sources Contextualization Making Connections Argumentation
spiral across units. Developments and Processes Sourcing and Situation Claims and Evidence in Sources Contextualization Making Connections Argumentation
spiral across units. Developments and Processes Sourcing and Situation Claims and Evidence in Sources Contextualization Making Connections Argumentation
spiral across units. Developments and Processes Sourcing and Situation Claims and Evidence in Sources Contextualization Making Connections Argumentation
spiral across units. Developments and Processes Sourcing and Situation Claims and Evidence in Sources Contextualization Making Connections Argumentation
spiral across units. Developments and Processes Sourcing and Situation Claims and Evidence in Sources Contextualization Making Connections Argumentation
spiral across units. Developments and Processes Sourcing and Situation Claims and Evidence in Sources Contextualization Making Connections Argumentation
spiral across units. Developments and Processes Sourcing and Situation Claims and Evidence in Sources Contextualization Making Connections Argumentation
spiral across units. Developments and Processes Sourcing and Situation Claims and Evidence in Sources Contextualization Making Connections Argumentation
spiral across units. Developments and Processes Sourcing and Situation Claims and Evidence in Sources Contextualization Making Connections Argumentation
spiral across units. Developments and Processes Sourcing and Situation Claims and Evidence in Sources Contextualization Making Connections Argumentation
spiral across units. Developments and Processes Sourcing and Situation Claims and Evidence in Sources Contextualization Making Connections Argumentation
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The AP World History Exam is 3 hours and 15 minutes long and includes both a 95-minute Overview. multiple-choice and short-answer section (Section I) and a 100-minute free-response section (Section II). Each section is divided into two parts, as shown in the table below.
The concept outline for AP World History: Modern presents the course content organized by key concept rather than in sequential units. The coding that appears in the AP World History: Modern Course and Exam Description, Effective Fall 2019 corresponds to the organization of the course content found in this conceptual outline.
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2.2 The Mongol Empire and the Making of the Modern World. Developments and Processes. Sourcing and Situation. Claims and Evidence in Sources. Contextualization. Making Connections. Argumentation.
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