What is AP World History?

In AP World History: Modern, students investigate significant events, individuals, developments, and processes from 1200 to the present.

Students develop and use the same skills, practices, and methods employed by historians:

• Analyzing primary and secondary sources;

• Developing historical arguments;

• Making historical connections;

• Analyze information using the skills of comparison, causation, and continuity and change over time.

The course also provides six themes that students explore throughout the course in order to make connections among historical developments in different times and places:

• Social Interactions and Organization

• Governance and Politics

• Human Interactions within the Environment

• Culture

• Economic Systems

• Technology and Innovation.

College Course Equivalent

AP World History: Modern is designed to be the equivalent of an introductory college or university survey of modern world history.

Prerequisites

There are no prerequisites for AP World History: Modern. Students should be able to read a college-level textbook and write grammatically correct, complete sentences.