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• help students organize historical content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

Unit	Region	Period/ Empire	Period	Theme / Objective	Notes
Unit 1: The Global Tapestry, c. 1200 to c. 1450	East Asia: China	Song Dynasty		culture continuity/ change in China Confucian traditions filial piety role of women respect for expected deference from neo-Confucianism Buddhism literary/ scholarly traditions spread to Korea & Japan economic systems economic growth commercialization manufacturing textiles porcelains iron/ steel products trade networks continued dependence upon peasants (farming) artisans (skilled labor) technologies farming steel & iron production Grand canal trade unification	China: Song blend of Confucianism & imperial bureaucracy expansion of Chinese culture filial piety deference from women Chinese literature & spread to Korea & Japan China trade & technologies Silk Road Champa rice Grand Canal Products: Steel & iron textiles porcelains
	East & Southeast Asia	Buddhism		Buddhism spread	Buddhist schools and practices Theraveda Mahayana Tibetan
	West Asia & North Africa	Religions	Islam	Dar al-Islam "home of Islam" = places under Muslim rule rise of Islamic states cause / effects internal & external factors Abbasid Caliphate collapse Islamic rule rise of Turkic Islamic states administrative units general governing policies Intellectual innovation & spread	"Pax-Islamica" dhimmi = non-Muslim person legal arrangements = "constitutional charters" terms of relations between religious groups Dar al-'Ahd = non-Muslim places w/ non-aggression agreement places at peace with Islamic nation/s "house of peace" Dar al-harb = non-Muslim places w/o non-aggression agreement or at war "house of war" spread of Islam Africa Spain Islamic missionaries Sufis culture / technologies: mathematics (Nasir al-Din al Tusi) literature medicine Greek philosophy Islamic preservation of influence/ interpretation on/ by Islamic scholars "House of Wisdom" in Abbasid Baghdad Islamic culture / scholarship spread to Spain
			Christianity Judaism