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AP World History: Modern timeline, 1200-present
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- help students make thematic and conceptual connections
- help students organize historical content
AP World History: Modern Units[edit | edit source]
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Time Period
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Time importance
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Places/ Peoples
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Themes
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Themes
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| Unit 1: The Global Tapestry
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c. 1200 to
c. 1450
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- 1200
- growth in worldwide exchange
- rise of states
- 1450: Collapse of Constantinople to Turkish invasion
- consolidation of Islam across Mideast under Turkish empire
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- China:
- Song blend of Confucianism & imperial bureaucracy
- expansion of Chinese culture
- filial piety
- deference from women
- Chinese literature & spread to Korea & Japan
- East & Southeast Asia
- Buddhism spread
- schools and practices
- Theraveda
- Mahayana
- Tibetan
- China trade & technologies
- Silk Road
- Champa rice
- Grand Canal
- Products:
- Steel & iron
- textiles
- porcelains
- Indian Ocean trade
- Trans-Sahara trade
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- state building in Americas
- state building in Africa
- types of exchange
- environmental impacts of exchange
- cultural diffusion
- religion, language, ideas, technologies, etc.
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| Unit 4: Transoceanic Interconnections
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| Unit 2: Networks of Exchange
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c. 1450 to
c. 1750
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- Columbian exchange
- Maritime empires
- Social hierarchies change
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| Unit 3: Land-Based Empires
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| Unit 4: Transoceanic Interconnections
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| Unit 5: Revolutions
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c. 1750 to
c. 1900
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| Unit 6: Consequences of Industrialization
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| Unit 7: Global Conflict
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1900 to
the present
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| Unit 8: Cold War and Decolonization
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| Unit 9: Globalization
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