AP World History: Modern time line

AP World History: Modern timeline, 1200-present

Article purpose:

• help students make thematic and conceptual connections
• help students organize historical content

AP World History: Modern Units

Unit	Time Period	Time importance	Places/ Peoples	Themes	Themes
Unit 1: The Global Tapestry	c. 1200 to c. 1450	1200 growth in worldwide exchange rise of states 1450: Collapse of Constantinople to Turkish invasion consolidation of Islam across Mideast under Turkish empire	China Song Dynasty Europe crusades Mongol Empire	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	state building in Americas state building in Africa types of exchange environmental impacts of exchange Black death crops cultural diffusion religion, language, ideas, technologies, etc.
Unit 4: Transoceanic Interconnections
Unit 2: Networks of Exchange	c. 1450 to c. 1750				Columbian exchange Maritime empires Social hierarchies change
Unit 3: Land-Based Empires
Unit 4: Transoceanic Interconnections
Unit 5: Revolutions	c. 1750 to c. 1900
Unit 6: Consequences of Industrialization
Unit 7: Global Conflict	1900 to the present
Unit 8: Cold War and Decolonization
Unit 9: Globalization

Unit I: Tapestry, 1200-1450

Time	Place	Event	Theme