A. P. World History
Lecture Notes

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Unit 1 (Foundations) Unit 2 (600 - 1450) Unit 3 (1450 - 1750)
Unit 4 (1750 - 1914) Unit 5 (1914 - present)  

 


Unit 1
Foundations

 

 

The Agricultural Revolutions Mesopotamia - The Fertile Crescent Egyptian Notes
Nubia outline notes Olmec and Chavin civilizations notes Zhou Dynasty - Confucianism, Daoism, and Legalism
The Ancient Hebrews Phoenicians and Mediterranean Trade The Greek Polis
The Empire of Alexander the Great The Collapse of Rome The Social Hierarchy of Confucianism
The Collapse of the Han Dynasty The Caste System of India Caste System Drawing
Trans-Saharan Trade Cultural Unity and Bantu Migration  

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Unit 2
600 C. E. - 1450 C. E.

 

 

Rise of Islam Byzantine Empire Manorialism and Feudalism
The Tang and Song Dynasties Medieval Japan - Chinese Influence and Feudalism The Toltec and the Maya
The Aztecs The World of the Inca Impact of the Mongol Expansion in West Eurasia
The Yuan Dynasty - The Mongol Interlude in Chinese History The Mamluks The Song and Economic Revolution
Ming Technology, Achievement and Initiative Sudanic and East African Kingdoms - Impact of Islam The Great Zimbabwe
The Split of the Christian Church and the Crusades The Rise of the West's and Europe's Urban Renewal The Italian Renaissance and the New Monarchies
Importance of European Exploration Major Developments in Social and Political Institutions in Europe 1200 -1500  

 

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Unit 3
1450 to 1750

 

Absolutism The Scientific Revolution The Columbian Exchange
The Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Systems The Kongo Kingdom The Songhai Kingdom
The Ottoman Empire Cultural and Intellectual Developments in the Mughal Empire The Tokugawa Shogunate
The Manchu Dynasty Peter the Great  

 

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Unit 4
1750 - 1914

 

The Haitian Revolution Causes of the Industrial Revolution Impacts of the Industrial Revolution
Latin American Independence (1800 - 1890) Latin America after Independence, Problems and Foreign Intervention The Abolition of Slavery in the Americas and Immigration
Africa 1800 - 1870 British rule in India The beginning of the disintegration of the Qing Dynasty and the Opium Wars
The Taiping Rebellion and the end of Dynastic China The Meiji Restoration (1868- 1912) Unification of Germany
Motives, Methods for the New Imperialism The Scramble for Africa:  Case Studies  

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Unit 5
1914 - Present

 

World War I - Patterns of the War, the War's End, Peace and its Global Effects The New Middle East, 1900 - 1929 Changes in China, 1900 - 1929
The Great Depression New Authoritarian - Totalitarian Regimes - Fascism The Road to World War II, 1931 - 1939
World War II - The Character of Warfare, The Holocaust, and the Consequences and Costs The Chinese Revolution - Mao Zedong's New China Independence for India
The Mexican Revolution Decolonization - Three Case Studies (Egypt, Ghana, South Africa) The Iranian Revolution

 

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