AP World History Legacy (Old) Course


 

Period 1: Technological and Environmental Transformations, 8000 BCE to 600 BCE

 

Neolithic Expansion in Europe Map

 

Key Concept 1.1 Big Geography and the Peopling of the Earth

 

Key Concept 1.2 The Neolithic Revolution and Early Agricultural Societies

 

Key Concept 1.3 The Development and Interactions of Early Agricultural, Pastoral, and Urban Societies

 

 

Period 2: Organization and Reorganization of Human Societies, 600 BCE to 600 CE

 

Silk Routes
Silk Routes

 

Key Concept 2.1 The Development and Codification of Religious and Cultural Traditions

 

Key Concept 2.2 The Development of States and Empires

 

Key Concept 2.3 Emergence of Transregional Networks of Communication and Exchange

 

 

Period 3: Regional and Transregional Interactions, 600 CE to 1450 CE

 

Route of the 7th expedition of Zheng He's fleet (1431-1433)
Route of the 7th expedition of Zheng He's fleet (1431-1433)

 

Key Concept 3.1: Expansion and Intensification of Communication and Exchange Networks

 

Key Concept 3.2: Continuity and Innovation of State Forms and Their Interactions

 

Key Concept 3.3: Increased Productive Capacity and Its Consequences

 

 

Period 4: Global Interactions, 1450 to 1750

 

Key Concept 4.1: Globalizing Networks of Communication and Exchange

 

Key Concept 4.2: New Forms of Social Organization and Modes of Production

 

Key Concept 4.3: State Consolidation and Imperial Expansion

 

 

Period 5: Industrialization and Global Integration, 1750 to 1900

 

"China-the Cake of Kings (1898 French Political Cartoon)

"China-the Cake of Kings (1898 French Political Cartoon)

Key Concept 5.1: Industrialization and Global Capitalism

 

Key Concept 5.2: Imperialism and Nation-State Formation

 

Key Concept 5.3: Nationalism, Revolution, and Reform

 

Key Concept 5.4 Global Migration

 

 

 

Period 6: Accelerating Global Change and Realignments, 1900 to present

 

Gandhi picture in Internet café in Varanasi, India, 2001
Gandhi picture in Internet café in Varanasi, India, 2001

 

Key Concept 6.1: Science and the Environment

 

Key Concept 6.2: Global Conflicts and their Consequences

 

Key Concept 6.3: New Conceptualizations of Global Economy, Society and Culture

 

 

Resources

Click here for the AP world history course page:
The first link on the course page is the current Course Description.

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For the overall course see Unit 1: Maps, Time and World History and Unit 2: History and Memory focused on historical meaning and change of Columbus, the Maya, and museums.


The World History Association (WHA) is the organization that has been most influential in changing the field of world history in its scholarship and teaching. The WHA publishes the Journal of World History and has many local affiliates.

 



Gaming the Past: Historical Simulations in the Classroomoffers reviews and links to popular world history games for learning.


Children & Youth in World History provides primary source and teaching resources for learning about the experiences of young people in history.

Bibliography, the following are mostly journal readings for history teachers. They could be useful to give students for additional reading or extra credit assignments. Some are framed as extra credit assignments.

Compare the website: http://www.hyperhistory.com/ to http://www.hyperhistory.net/ in terms of point of view, content – what is left in and what is left out, the WHAP habits of mind and skills and how they’re applied, etc.

Read William McNeill’s “Why Study History” on the American Historical Association’s Perspectives here: http://www.historians.org/pubs/archives/whmcneillwhystudyhistory.htm

and Peter Stearns’s “Why Study History” on the American Historical Association’s Perspectives here: http://www.historians.org/pubs/free/WhyStudyHistory.htm then compare with FFA’s introduction.

Read March/April 2008 H-World discussion on the textbook The World. Search H-World discussion logs, find March 2008 and read posts from March 21-25 (can do more too – hard to stop once you start). What is the overall sense of the book you get from the posts?

Read about “American exceptionalism.” Is the course “world history” a case of American exceptionalism and/or a case of American colonialism?

Read William H. McNeill, "An Emerging Consensus about World History?," World History Connected November 2003 http://worldhistoryconnected.press.illinois.edu/1.1/mcneill.html [14 paragraphs]

Read William McNeill, “The Rise of the West after 25 Years” in the Journal of World History here: http://www.uhpress.hawaii.edu/journals/jwh/jwh011p001.pdf

Read Gilbert Allardyce, “Toward World History: American Historians and the Coming of the World History Course: in the Journal of World History here: http://www.uhpress.hawaii.edu/journals/jwh/jwh011p023.pdf

Read Ralph Crozier, “World History in the People’s Republic of China” in the Journal of World History here: http://www.uhpress.hawaii.edu/journals/jwh/jwh012p151.pdf

Read Jerry Bentley, "Sea and Ocean Basins as Frameworks of Historical Analysis," Geographical Review 89, no. 2 (April 1999): 215–25. Available through Bridging World History here: http://www.learner.org/courses/worldhistory/unit_readings_1.html

Read David Christian, "World History in Context," Journal of World History 14, no. 4 (December 2003): 437–52. Available through Bridging World History here: http://www.learner.org/courses/worldhistory/unit_readings_1.html

Read William Everdell, "How to Use the Theme of Technology in Teaching the World History Survey Course," World History Connected May 2004 http://worldhistoryconnected.press.illinois.edu/1.2/everdell.html> [22 paragraphs]

Fred Spier, "The Small History of the Big History Course at the University of Amsterdam," World History Connected May 2005 http://worldhistoryconnected.press.illinois.edu/2.2/spier.html [16 paragraphs]

Watch Craig Benjamin’s Big History videos through this site: http://www90.homepage.villanova.edu/lowell.gustafson/bighistory/links.html You can also read articles there too for extra credit.

Read David Christian, "What's the Use of Big History?," World History Connected October 2005 http://worldhistoryconnected.press.illinois.edu/3.1/christian.html 64 paragraphs with many pictures and graphs from a powerpoint.

Read selections from the Big History Forum from World History Connected, minimum is to read Benjamin’s introduction, Cynthia Stokes Brown’s article on civilization and at least one other (don’t be afraid to read them all!).