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AP World History: Modern
From 1200 CE to now — trace empires, revolutions and globalization across the whole planet.
Scored lab investigations
Unit 1 · 8–10%
The Global Tapestry
- States in Afro-Eurasia: Song China & Dar al-Islam14 min · 3 objectives
- South & Southeast Asia and the Spread of Belief13 min · 3 objectives
- The Americas and Europe on the Eve of Connection14 min · 3 objectives
- How States Legitimize Power: A Comparative Toolkit15 min · 3 objectives
- Belief Systems as Historical Forces, Not Background14 min · 3 objectives
Unit 2 · 8–10%
Networks of Exchange
- The Silk Roads14 min · 3 objectives
- The Mongol Empire and Eurasian Integration14 min · 3 objectives
- Indian Ocean & Trans-Saharan Trade13 min · 3 objectives
- The Infrastructure of Trade: Technology, Credit, and Diasporas15 min · 3 objectives
- Unintended Cargo: Disease, Crops, and the Limits of Control14 min · 3 objectives
Unit 3 · 12–15%
Land-Based Empires
- The Gunpowder Empires Expand14 min · 3 objectives
- Administering the Land Empires14 min · 3 objectives
- Belief Systems and Legitimizing Power13 min · 3 objectives
- The Gunpowder Revolution and Why It Centralized Power15 min · 3 objectives
- Paying for Empire: Land, Tax, and the Limits of Extraction14 min · 3 objectives
- Religious Pluralism as Statecraft14 min · 3 objectives
Unit 4 · 12–15%
Transoceanic Interconnections
- The Age of Exploration14 min · 3 objectives
- The Columbian Exchange14 min · 3 objectives
- Maritime Empires and Coerced Labor14 min · 3 objectives
- Why Europe Sailed: Motives, Means, and the Role of Chance15 min · 3 objectives
- The Atlantic System as an Economic Machine15 min · 3 objectives
- New Societies: Caste, Creoles, and Cultural Blending14 min · 3 objectives
Unit 5 · 12–15%
Revolutions
- The Enlightenment and Its Ideas13 min · 3 objectives
- The Age of Political Revolutions14 min · 3 objectives
- Industrialization and Its Reactions14 min · 3 objectives
- Comparing Revolutions: One Framework, Four Cases15 min · 3 objectives
- Enlightenment Ideas Turned Against Their Authors14 min · 3 objectives
- Why Britain First: The Causes of Industrialization15 min · 3 objectives
Unit 6 · 12–15%
Consequences of Industrialization
- The New Imperialism14 min · 3 objectives
- The Global Economy and Migration14 min · 3 objectives
- Resistance to Imperialism13 min · 3 objectives
- How Small Forces Conquered Large States15 min · 3 objectives
- Economic Imperialism Without Formal Rule14 min · 3 objectives
- Justifying Empire, and the Arguments Against It14 min · 3 objectives
Unit 7 · 8–10%
Global Conflict
- World War I: Causes and Total War14 min · 3 objectives
- The Interwar Crisis and Totalitarianism14 min · 3 objectives
- World War II and Mass Mobilization14 min · 3 objectives
- Total War: Mobilizing Whole Societies15 min · 3 objectives
- The Interwar Collapse: Depression and the Appeal of Dictatorship14 min · 3 objectives
- Mass Atrocity and the Postwar Legal Order14 min · 3 objectives
Unit 8 · 8–10%
Cold War & Decolonization
- The Cold War: A Bipolar World14 min · 3 objectives
- Decolonization and New Nations14 min · 3 objectives
- Non-Alignment and the End of the Cold War13 min · 3 objectives
- Proxy War: Why the Cold War Was Fought Elsewhere15 min · 3 objectives
- How Independence Was Won: Negotiation, War, and Partition14 min · 3 objectives
Unit 9 · 8–10%
Globalization
- Technology and the Shrinking World13 min · 3 objectives
- Global Economic Integration14 min · 3 objectives
- Global Culture and Human Rights14 min · 3 objectives
- The Architecture of the Global Economy — and the Argument About It15 min · 3 objectives
- Population, Environment, and the Least Reversible Changes14 min · 3 objectives