AP World History
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The AP World History: Modern course framework as study items: the nine units from 1200 to the present, the six themes, and the reasoning skills the exam actually rewards.
- What chronological range does AP World History: Modern cover?
- Roughly 1200 CE to the present, divided into four exam periods and nine units.
- Name the four periods the AP World History exam uses.
- c. 1200 to c. 1450, c. 1450 to c. 1750, c. 1750 to c. 1900, and c. 1900 to the present.
- Name the six themes of the AP World History course.
- Humans and the Environment, Cultural Developments and Interactions, Governance, Economic Systems, Social Interactions and Organization, and Technology and Innovation.
- What does the Humans and the Environment theme ask you to track?
- How geography and climate shape human societies, and how human activity, including disease, agriculture and industry, reshapes the environment.
- What does the Governance theme cover?
- How states form, expand, and legitimize authority, and how they are administered, resisted and dissolved.
- What does the Economic Systems theme cover?
- How societies produce, exchange and distribute goods and labor, including trade networks, labor systems and economic ideologies.
- What does the Social Interactions and Organization theme cover?
- How societies group people by class, caste, gender, race and kinship, and how those groupings change.
- What does the Technology and Innovation theme cover?
- How technologies, from the lateen sail to the steam engine to the internet, arise, spread and change what societies can do.
- Name the three historical reasoning processes.
- Comparison, causation, and continuity and change over time.
- What is contextualization on the AP rubric?
- Situating an argument within broader historical events, developments or processes that occur before, during or after the topic.
- What does the sourcing acronym HIPP stand for?
- Historical situation, intended audience, purpose, and point of view.
- What makes a thesis defensible on the AP rubric?
- It responds to the prompt with a claim that establishes a line of reasoning, and a reader could argue against it.
- What earns the complexity point on the AP essay rubrics?
- Demonstrating complex understanding through the whole argument, for example by analysing multiple variables, explaining both similarity and difference, or qualifying the argument with evidence that corroborates or modifies it.
- How is the AP World History exam structured?
- Section I is 55 multiple-choice questions in 55 minutes and three short-answer questions in 40 minutes. Section II is one document-based question in a recommended 60 minutes and one long essay in a recommended 40 minutes.
- How is the AP World History exam weighted?
- Multiple choice 40 percent, short answer 20 percent, document-based question 25 percent, long essay 15 percent.
- How many points is the document-based question worth, and how are they divided?
- Seven: one for thesis, one for contextualization, three for evidence, and two for analysis and reasoning.
- How many points is the long essay question worth?
- Six: one for thesis, one for contextualization, two for evidence, and two for analysis and reasoning.
- How are the short-answer questions structured?
- Three questions, each with parts a, b and c worth one point apiece. The first two are required and use stimulus material; the third is a choice between two periods.
- Which units carry the heaviest weight on the exam?
- Units 3 through 6, covering roughly 1450 to 1900, each carry about 12 to 15 percent, more than any other unit.
- What was the Song dynasty's civil service examination system?
- A competitive written examination on the Confucian classics that selected officials for the imperial bureaucracy, expanding the scholar-official class.
- What is Neo-Confucianism?
- A revival of Confucian thought in Song China that absorbed Buddhist and Daoist metaphysical questions while reasserting Confucian ethics and social hierarchy.
- What was champa rice, and what did it change?
- A fast-ripening, drought-resistant rice strain brought to China from Vietnam, allowing two harvests a year in the south.
- What was the Delhi Sultanate?
- A series of Muslim dynasties ruling much of northern India from 1206 to 1526, governing a large Hindu majority.
- What was the Vijayanagara Empire?
- A South Indian Hindu empire founded in 1336 that dominated the peninsula and resisted northern sultanates for over two centuries.
- What was the bhakti movement?
- A devotional strand of Hinduism emphasising direct, personal love for a deity over ritual and caste hierarchy, spread through vernacular poetry.
- What was Sufism, and why did it spread Islam so effectively?
- The mystical strand of Islam, emphasising direct experience of God. Sufi teachers adapted to local practice, which made conversion less disruptive.
- What held the Mali Empire together in the fourteenth century?
- Control of trans-Saharan gold and salt trade, a Muslim ruling elite, and tribute from subordinate states, with Timbuktu as a commercial and scholarly centre.
- What was Great Zimbabwe?
- A large stone-walled city in southeastern Africa that flourished around 1200 to 1450, built on cattle, gold and trade with the Swahili coast.
- What made the Swahili city-states distinctive?
- Independent commercial cities along the East African coast, Muslim in religion, speaking a Bantu language enriched with Arabic, and living on Indian Ocean trade.
- How did the Mexica, or Aztec, state extract resources?
- Through a tribute system: conquered city-states paid regular tribute in goods and labor rather than being absorbed into a uniform bureaucracy.